Posted on 05/15/2013 7:06:07 PM PDT by lbryce
President Obama announced Wednesday night that the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service had been ousted after disclosures that the agency gave special scrutiny to conservative groups. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., meanwhile, warned top I.R.S. officials that a Justice Department inquiry would examine any false statements to see if they constituted a crime. Attorney General on the I.R.S.
Speaking in the White House’s formal East Room, Mr. Obama said Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew had asked for and accepted the resignation of the acting commissioner, Steven Miller, who as deputy commissioner was aware of the agency’s efforts to demand more information from conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status in early 2012.
“Americans have a right to be angry about it, and I’m angry about it,” Mr. Obama said. “It should not matter what political stripe you’re from. The fact of the matter is the I.R.S. has to operate with absolute integrity.”
Mr. Miller, who told agency employees that he would leave the administration in early June, is scheduled to testify Friday before the House Ways and Means Committee in the first of a series of hearings on the I.R.S. activities.
The president acted as his administration broadly stepped up pressure on the I.R.S. — and sought to insulate itself from the outcry over the agency’s conduct. Mr. Obama spoke to reporters after an Oval Office meeting with Mr. Lew and his deputy, Neil Wolin, who will be responsible for carrying out the president’s orders to install safeguards to prevent a similar effort.
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“Not Found”...being scrubbed?
For a long time my tag line here has been “Sharia, No Thanks!”. I just changed it to “NO MORE IRS!” and invite everyone else to do the same and to add the statement to their posts if they like.
NO MORE IRS!
Forced out?
The SOBs responsible for this should be charged with treason!
It doesn’t bother me that Obama did this. There will always be crooks in high office.
What bugs me is how many people think it’s okay he did this....
Forced out? Before his resignation, he was going to leave the IRS at the end of June. After his resignation, he is going to leave the IRS at the end of June. Laughable.
Hmmm. I just read an interesting point on RCP. Remember when Harry Reid repeatedly attacked Romney for not paying taxes for a decade? Where did Mr. Reid claim to get that information from? According to Reid it was from a guy at Bain, but perhaps there was some more leaking from the good’ ol IRS going on there. Time to investigate Senator Reid too! This could become a real bloodbath!
Whoop-de-do.
That scumbag was done in 3 weeks anyway.
But the African communist Ubama really took the bull by the horns on this thing, yessiree!
The buck stopped... over there. But Ubama will get to the bottom of this. And you can take that to the toilet.
What is being missed in all this ‘hype’ is that Miller was NEW to the position, and just a TEMP. We need to go back and see who was in CHARGE when this plan to suppress the funding of Conservative Voting Efforts began.
LOL forced out my ass..he was leaving next month anyway..this is Obama’s way of making it appear like he’s all upset about this when the guy that is resigning was already scheduled to leave NEXT MONTH
I figured I'd get that reply, but people like you and I aren't going to go quietly, bro.
That is like treating the symptoms and not the cause of the disease.
What we really need is NO MORE COMMUNIST TRAITORS.
I think it’s safe to assume the next appointee will be someone chosen not out of competence but party loyalty if not the proper melanin level.
The party might be over but the band will play on.
That address works fine. Try plugging in part of the title.
Dumbledore: “Ah, yes. Yes, I thought we might hit that little snag.”
Fudge: “Snag? I see no snag Dumbledore!”
Dumbledore: “Well, I’m afraid I do.”
Fudge: “Oh really?”
Dumbledore: “Well – it’s just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to – what is the phrase – ‘Come quietly.’ I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius.
Zero’s house of cards is collapsing on him.
I listened to a tiny portion of his speech this afternoon and just kept thinking “BS!, BS!, BS! . . . . . . . “
It’s ironic that Dem “leaders” all talk tough when they plan to do nothing to fix a problem, like zero this afternoon! He plans to do nothing because we already KNOW who was behind the IRS’ activities - BHO!!!
Perfect answer, thank you.
So when will Mr. Jacob J. Lew be arrested?
Obama you go girl for firing the IRS chief. Brilliant move, now when conservatives complain about tax audits in the future, you can say it’s just conspiracy theories because you already fired the IRS chief.
Thanks!!! (It worked.)
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