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Posted on 05/17/2013 3:48:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
No one can deny that Barack Obama is a highly skilled politician, at least by the measure of election outcomes. His record is undefeated, save for an ill-advised 2000 primary challenge to an entrenched incumbent congressman. His 2008 presidential victory, after a fraction of a term in the U.S. Senate, was especially dazzling. It disproved those who said that Hillary Clinton was invincible, that a left-wing Democrat couldn't win, and that America wasn't ready for a black president.
No one can deny that Lance Armstrong and Mark McGwire were highly skilled athletes. But their accomplishments are forever tainted by their use of banned performance-enhancing drugs. The use of the Internal Revenue Service's coercive power to suppress dissent against Obama is the political equivalent of steroids. The history books should record Obama's re-election with an asterisk to indicate that it was achieved with the help of illicit means.
The Weekly Standard notes that the NBC's Lisa Myers "reported this morning that the IRS deliberately chose not to reveal that it had wrongly targeted conservative groups until after the 2012 presidential election":
The IRS commissioner "has known for at least a year that this was going on," said Myers, "and that this had happened. And did he share any of that information with the White House? But even more importantly, Congress is going to ask him, why did you mislead us for an entire year? Members of Congress were saying conservatives are being targeted. What's going on here? The IRS denied it. Then when--after these officials are briefed by the [inspector general] that this is going on, they don't disclose it. In fact, the commissioner sent a letter to Congress in September on this subject and did not reveal this.....
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Thank you.
The main difference is the first time around it was a cute phrase coined by the left (walter chronkite?) to describe Nixon and make his actions seem beyond the pale. This time around, it’s true. The presidency now resembles the lungs of a two pack per day smoking chimney sweep working at a radiation lab.
I get your point, and it’s true. It wasn’t Wally though. Nixon brought it all on himself by at one point saying, “I am not a crook.”
LOL, what a true giver the guy was. LOL
The history books should record Obama's re-election with an asterisk to indicate that it was achieved with the help of illicit means. . . . the left's hateful and slanderous campaign against its political foes, especially the Tea Party--the demagoguery of Obama, his fellow Democrats and their supporters in the media, led by the New York Times editorial page--was sufficient to prompt the IRS agents to cast aside their professional obligations and embark on a campaign of political abuse whose effect was to ease Obama's re-election.
This is emerging IMO as nothing less than a coup d'état attempt. Especially if Obama Administration personnel are involved.
This is extremely serious and treason with the maximum penalty upon conviction is called for. IMO.
Could this election interference ("election-year struggle" that we all now know about!) and all that it encompasses explain why so many were wrong about the outcome of the election?
Could this be the crisis Abe talked about that now has been reached between statist America and free America? The statists with massive abuse of trust stole the election.
. . . You now have two Americas. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Obama’s IRS delayed approval of conservative groups until AFTER the 2012 election. So the IRS rigged the election for Obama. all these tea party groups if allowed to participate also would have gotten more conservative Republicans elected to the House and Senate. So Obama’s IRS rigged the election stole the presidency, stole the Senate for democrats/socialists and made the House more liberal. This is illegal and unconstitutional. email this to congressmen so they are aware of that the IRS and Obama’s plan was to steal the election by shutting down the tea party.
He is a totus, that’s it! The empty chair metaphor fits as well as his empty suit!
Being a DJ song comes to mind “Smiling Faces”
And maybe one more “ Back Stabbers”
Benghazi is the scandal they wish to bury.
If this was the work of someone in the White House or another Presidential appointee, we can fix that by firings or even impeachment.
It may be an even scarier proposition, however, if people within the IRS dreamed this up and just thought that harassing and suppressing conservative groups was the right thing to do. The latter would indicate corruption deeply embedded in the federal bureaucracy, an even harder problem to fix. Given the performance before Congress by that asshat former Acting Director, we may have a problem deeply embedded in the IRS, the second most powerful agency in the government.
>No one can deny that Barack Obama is a highly skilled politician, at least by the measure of election outcomes.<
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The only reason that 0 is “skilled” is that he has the sycophantic support of the MSM and a spineless GOP as the opposition.
Without them he would not have been able to make it to first base.
Where are the members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the picture?
Have they been photoshopped out?
“Democrats are falling back on the “Idiot Defense”.
The problem is, that with most of the people they put up there, this seems plausible. The real brains of the operation are invisible and nowhere to be seen.
Sorry, that’s a good attempt to defend Obama, but the IRS couldn’t get away with this without approval from above.
IRS employees did not spontaneously think this up themselves. That would be insane. I will bet that a lot of them are sweating bullets right now thinking about jail terms, because what they have done is so blatantly illegal that they would never have dared to do it on their own.
The ethos would have encouraged them and made them trust orders from above, no matter how illegal, since it appears that 100% of the employees at the Cincinatti office donated either to Obama or to Sherrod Brown.
But the orders came from elsewhere.
A breach of public trust of this scale is *irreparable*. If the tax code is not completely overhauled and the IRS eliminated (yes, I know how radical that notion is), citizens’ trust in government will be near ZERO. And in a political system such as ours, when public trust is completely broken, all bets are off.
And *forget* about any IRS health-care enforcement! If that goes forward, I truly fear civil unrest. This institutionalized persecution of crimethink opens the door to Dystopia. Our Overlords dare not open that door....
Never let facts get in the way of a good rant. Not one republican in either the House of Representatives nor the Senate voted for the health care law. No member of the Congress nor the Congress as a whole has any authority to send anyone to prison. Properly directed anger can be a useful tool, but when it is so off base it can do nothing but demoralize those persons working against great odds to bring the gross misconduct of this administration to light.
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