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Posted on 08/11/2013 6:40:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
According to Team Obama’s “phony scandal” narrative, when the Internal Revenue Service processed 501(c)(3) tax-exemption applications, it equally tormented liberals and conservatives. No big deal, the argument goes. The IRS suffers from even-handed inefficiency rather than an un-American habit of slamming critics of the president of the United States.
Unfortunately for the Obamites, actual facts annihilate their institutional-incompetence defense. New data deepen the suspicion that the IRS is the latest and most worrisome weapon in the left’s arsenal.
Using his authority under Internal Revenue Code Section 6103, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) requested and received data from the IRS on the 298 “political advocacy” groups that the tax agency was subjecting to secondary screening as of May 31, 2012. Committee staffers compared these groups’ names against identifiers on the IRS’ “Be on the Lookout” list, namely “progressive” and “Tea Party,” “Patriot,” “9/12” and “conservative.” This yielded 111 groups, of which staffers developed a snapshot on their status as of May 31, 2013.
Ways and Means found the IRS caresses institutions on the left and hammers those on the right.
Among these 111 targets, only seven were self-described “progressive” groups. The remaining 104 were right-of-center.
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I foresee a quick way around this charge, and also, a solid strategy on our part: Fake 501 groups. The left could use them to inflate the left-leaning group numbers, and we could use them to distract the enemy whilst real groups get through.
I encourage all to aggressively push back against the use of the word “Scandal” in the case of the IRS, Benghazi, NSA, Fast and Furious.
These are not scandals, they are very serious crimes and should be treated as such.
You are exactly right.
Of course the crimes are committed at the highest echelon of Dem politics and nothing will be done.
The IRS has always been a tool of the left. Our founders wisely didn’t tax income.
It’s not just the IRS thing, but a long list of crimes that are being diminished into obscurity by the media. I’m afraid that mere argumentative push-back will not cause the media to stop this. Some demonstrably real threat is going to have to cause their collective sense of self-preservation to kick in.
Has Obumbler stopped using “phony scandals” ? It didn’t seem to work out the way they’d hoped...
3rd rate burglary.
Right
Agreed. These actions are criminal, likely felonious and certainly not scandals.
A scandal was Bill Clinton getting a BJ in the oval office from an aide. A crime was him using the power of his office to cover it up.
Yes.
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