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"Is This Still America?" Congressional Hearing Turns Into IRS Smackdown
Mail Online ^ | May 17,2013 | David Martosko

Posted on 05/17/2013 10:43:46 AM PDT by Biggirl

The IRS under the Obama administration painted targets on the backs of conservatives beginning in 2010, and ousted acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller apologized to the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday. But members on both sides of the aisle were furious, and castigated him for the mismanagement and political gamesmanship the IRS engaged in on his watch. Texas Republican congressman Kevin Brady had the harshest criticism for Miller. ‘Is this still America?' he asked him.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: america; congress; irs; irsrico; irsvshatchact; lawlessirs; ruthlessirs; tyranny
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"Is this still America?' Congressional hearing turns into IRS smackdown as disgraced former commissioner and Treasury Inspector General face tea-party scandal questions"

1 posted on 05/17/2013 10:43:46 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

> ‘Is this still America?

No, Congressman, and it hasn’t been for a long, long time. Most of my 60+ years, in fact.


2 posted on 05/17/2013 10:45:09 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Biggirl

Is isn’t America.

It is Omerica.


3 posted on 05/17/2013 10:45:48 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

And we are Omericans.


4 posted on 05/17/2013 10:47:20 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Biggirl

5 posted on 05/17/2013 10:47:46 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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To: Biggirl

No wonder the government has been amassing weapons and ammunition. If I’d been doing what they have, I’d be nervous, too.


6 posted on 05/17/2013 10:47:46 AM PDT by July4
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To: Biggirl

NO,do you have a follow-up?


7 posted on 05/17/2013 10:48:15 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: treetopsandroofs

Omeritopia


8 posted on 05/17/2013 10:48:23 AM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: Biggirl

Obama armed the IRS and turned them into the “Brown Shirts” of the “Party”.


9 posted on 05/17/2013 10:49:07 AM PDT by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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To: Biggirl

Again, foreign media reporting this stuff. The U.S. media? Writing love letters to Jay Carney (Jennifer Steinhauer - NYT).


10 posted on 05/17/2013 10:49:43 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Ben Mugged

The IRS has planted the seeds of its and the “party’s” distruction.


11 posted on 05/17/2013 10:50:38 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Biggirl
It's time for 'We The People Stimulus Package' (Mar 2009).
12 posted on 05/17/2013 10:52:48 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: Westbrook

Agreed... We haven’t seen the real America since the 1950s. It had partially gone away from decades of Constitutional abuse, but there still was a traditional America around during the 50’s. See my “about page”

I miss those days terribly.


13 posted on 05/17/2013 10:52:56 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: Biggirl

Kevin Brady finally came alive. I’ve criticized him here on FR many times saying you need to put a mirror to his face to see if he is still alive.

He did his job today. It was a simple and good question but not one Steve Miller can answer or will answer.


14 posted on 05/17/2013 10:54:07 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Biggirl

It’s not a smack down if mere words are exchanged.

I am waiting for congress to do some smacking down. But they are for a large part, a bunch of ladyparts.


15 posted on 05/17/2013 10:54:32 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

"When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt,
but protects the corrupt from you -
you know your nation is doomed."

-Ayn Rand


16 posted on 05/17/2013 10:57:01 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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To: Biggirl

They’re just asking this now?

No, idiots, it’s not still America. We done been FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED!!


17 posted on 05/17/2013 10:57:16 AM PDT by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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To: Biggirl
It's a corrupt agency with too much power that does not need to exists.

I'm tired of paying an accountant every year when a flat tax could replace the whole mess.

A promise that this will not occur again ain't good enough for me, disband the bastards and be done with them.

18 posted on 05/17/2013 10:58:08 AM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: July4

Well many Americans also have been buying guns and ammo also as well as ongoing gun sales have shown.


19 posted on 05/17/2013 10:59:42 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: The Cajun

Or even a fair tax.


20 posted on 05/17/2013 11:00:13 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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