Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Mitch McConnell Realizes IRS Scandal Is Over
New York Magazine ^ | 6/21/2013 | Jonathan Chait

Posted on 06/21/2013 12:29:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-109 next last
To: MichaelCorleone

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts


21 posted on 06/21/2013 12:40:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

FUMM


22 posted on 06/21/2013 12:40:51 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway
Don't buy Chiat's leftist propaganda. He wishes this was over.

We knew that the IRS chief was visiting the White House weekly. But we just found out his deputy was there hundreds of times. And we know the IRS harassment started right when Obama started claiming the conservative C4 organizations were raising "illegal" money. This goes right to the White House.

23 posted on 06/21/2013 12:41:15 PM PDT by colorado tanker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lakeshark

You are correct.

McConnell is really pissing me off right now, playing footsie with amnesty.


24 posted on 06/21/2013 12:41:50 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: All

It might be on something else that link, but yesterday it repeated.


25 posted on 06/21/2013 12:43:07 PM PDT by Mozilla
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: ClaytonP
Since this wasn't dealt with now, IRS intimidation is going to become an entrenched practice.

"GOING to become"????

26 posted on 06/21/2013 12:43:27 PM PDT by Roccus (POLITICIAN...............a four letter word spelled with ten letters.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: stephenjohnbanker

Why would you be pissed now? Has he ever claimed to be anything other than a total Obama lackey? He’s never eve attempted to be conservative.


27 posted on 06/21/2013 12:44:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

How did this gobbler survive another Thanksgiving?! I cannot find publicly acceptable words to describe my contempt for what his kind are doing to we the people.


28 posted on 06/21/2013 12:44:16 PM PDT by Bronzewound
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway
This is a piece by a liberal in essence claiming there is no there there. Suppressing free speech and targeting conservative groups by a bunch of progressives HAPPENED whether or not a smoking gun can be produced leading to the white house. The WH is tacit leader in this just from stated views.

I want the persons who actually did the targeting, such as Lerner to be prosecuted. If Mitch doesn't get that, he needs to go to the house--probably needs to retire just on general weak-kneed principles.

vaudine

29 posted on 06/21/2013 12:45:04 PM PDT by vaudine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

” He’s never eve attempted to be conservative.”

Correct, hw reminds me of the cave-in artist Trent (Not)t.

Who now makes 5 million a year, as owner of a “lobbyist” company.


30 posted on 06/21/2013 12:47:25 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

I wonder if Droopy is “so happy” about it.


31 posted on 06/21/2013 12:47:32 PM PDT by mykroar (China and Russia are playing chess while Obamas's playing 52 card pick-up.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway
Bugging McConnell's office must have given the Dems some great blackmail ammo. The IRS scandal investigation has not even started good. It may be over, but only because no one is pursuing the bad guys. Too bad, too, because next time the IRS may be coming after them. Think Nazi Germany. Think SS.
32 posted on 06/21/2013 12:49:12 PM PDT by July4
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: stephenjohnbanker
Correct, he reminds me of the cave-in artist Trent (Not)t.

Yes, another despicable logroller; you are spot on.

33 posted on 06/21/2013 12:51:06 PM PDT by Bronzewound
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: Lakeshark; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne
This article is from a notorious radical lefty, Johnathan Chait. He's bad news, and not to be trusted. Why would anyone believe something written by this guy?

I agree. I consider McConnell a weasel, but the argument in the article does not make sense. In fact, O *is* trying to shift blame away from himself. What is wrong with McConnell saying that?

"You are always shifting the blame. Shift, shift, shift, that's all you do!" - Col. Erhardt from "to be or not to be"


34 posted on 06/21/2013 12:51:27 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Fool me once, shame on you -- twice, shame on me -- 100 times, it's U. S. immigration policy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Jim Robinson
Jim the questions came from the pages of a handbook IRS has used for many years to assist applicants and staff to deal with applications. WHAT ISN'T IN THERE is the delay.

As you know USPS has something very comparable to this (applications for nonprofit mailing rates) and I had a good 30 years experience working in that area ~ and rewriting the rules from time to time as things changed. Our best guy did just over 500 approvals in one month of eight hour days!

I doubt that mega form IRS issues (one form for several different broad classes of applications) can be handled that fast, but it shouldn't have taken more than half an hour to write up an approval for the boss to sign!

Something horribly wrong happened ~ and I don't think it was because a branch chief called Headquarters with a question!

Keep your eye on Holly ~ she got fired ~ but she also said she (they) thought Cincy was working the cases as normal.

It will eventually come out that the productivity rates were normal ~ which they would be whether that handful of new cases were worked.

Three years delay is criminal! There's a crook in the mess and he or she needs to be ferreted out.

35 posted on 06/21/2013 12:51:41 PM PDT by muawiyah (All the illegals are already citizens. They have countries they can flee to. We Americans don't!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway
But all of the facts point in the same direction, which is that the Obama administration had nothing to do with it at all.

I have this bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to have Mr. Chait look at.

36 posted on 06/21/2013 12:52:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Religious faith in government is far crazier than religious faith in God.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

What a joke.


37 posted on 06/21/2013 12:53:53 PM PDT by Durbin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ClaytonP

Since this wasn’t dealt with now, IRS intimidation is going to become an entrenched practice.


It certainly is. And it’s going to be more horrific when they start enforcing Obamacare.


38 posted on 06/21/2013 12:55:00 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: colorado tanker
Don't buy Chiat's leftist propaganda. He wishes this was over.

See #34.

39 posted on 06/21/2013 12:56:22 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Fool me once, shame on you -- twice, shame on me -- 100 times, it's U. S. immigration policy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

To me this is by far the biggest of the scandals.

I personally believe it will do a lot to change how many people view the government. Not just people on the right either.

And a lot of that change in attitude is still developing and spreading as the story sinks in.

It’s not just the IRS, they’re using multiple arms of the government as a political weapon.


40 posted on 06/21/2013 12:56:31 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-109 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson