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Schumer Calls for Using IRS to Curtail Tea Party Activities
Washington Free Beacon ^ | January 23, 2014 | Alana Goodman

Posted on 01/24/2014 6:03:19 AM PST by Cheerio

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) proposed using the Internal Revenue Service to curtail Tea Party group funding during a speech on how to “exploit” and “weaken” the movement at the Center for American Progress on Thursday.

Arguing that Tea Party groups have a financial advantage after the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, Schumer said the Obama administration should bypass Congress and institute new campaign finance rules through the IRS.

“It is clear that we will not pass anything legislatively as long as the House of Representatives is in Republican control, but there are many things that can be done administratively by the IRS and other government agencies—we must redouble those efforts immediately,” Schumer said.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: dems; schumer; teaparty
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To: onedoug
Don't these people ever get sick and die. Another year with a healthy Hillary, Nancy, Harry, Chucky, Jessie Jerkson, Sharpton. What kind of deal do they have with the devil?
41 posted on 01/24/2014 6:49:13 AM PST by angcat
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To: onedoug

You ever hear of the movie “Bullet to the head?”


42 posted on 01/24/2014 7:02:16 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

43 posted on 01/24/2014 7:03:45 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Cheerio
the ill advised decision [Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission],

Sorry Chuckie, its the law of the land Congress passed it, the President signed it and the Supreme Court upheld it.

44 posted on 01/24/2014 7:06:03 AM PST by thirst4truth (www.Believer.com)
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To: Cheerio

Activities?


45 posted on 01/24/2014 7:06:48 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: angcat

“Don’t these people ever get sick and die. “

No you have to wrestle them to the ground and drive a stake through their heart. :-)


46 posted on 01/24/2014 7:07:38 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Cheerio

"The Tea Party rank-and-file know it’s a different America,” said Schumer. “It looks different; it prays different; it works different. This is unsettling and angering to some.”

Translation: "I have determined that Evangelicals, devout Catholics and Orthodox Jews are now guilty merely for the fact that they exist. Therefore, I am now entitled to use my powers as Senator to persuade Federal agencies to disregard the law of the land in order to publicly silence the "guilty" and punish them as I see fit"...

47 posted on 01/24/2014 7:14:43 AM PST by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: from occupied ga

If only NY and CA would quietly slip into the sea half our problems would go away. :-)


48 posted on 01/24/2014 7:14:51 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: onedoug

Yes he pretty much let the mask completely drop there, didn’t he?


49 posted on 01/24/2014 7:23:18 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: MrB

Yes he is and so is Coomoo in NY, one of Shumeys running buddies. They are not pulling any punches by using the weight of our government against us.

Until recently I always held out hope that it would not come to bullets in the streets but we now must face the fact it is most likely going to happen. Will it be the red states against the blue states or will it just be a free for all?


50 posted on 01/24/2014 7:27:05 AM PST by biff (WAS)
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To: Cheerio

So by Schumer own logic..if it is ok to use the IRS to attack your political enemies ..... and the IRS is now involved in healthcare.... is it okay then to deny healthcare or medical services to people you politically do not agree with?


51 posted on 01/24/2014 7:28:20 AM PST by tophat9000 (Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
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To: FreedomGuru

Schumer is a worthless Kapo.


52 posted on 01/24/2014 7:29:19 AM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Georgia Girl 2

No if California and New York quietly slip away it would not be the end of our problems,the problem is these states have gone to the point of now actively persecuting people for political ideas and denying freedom of thought ...


53 posted on 01/24/2014 7:33:50 AM PST by tophat9000 (Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
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To: FreedomGuru

‘Is Schumer going to be in charge of loading us on the train cattle cars?”

I am sure he would volunteer to send us all to the re-education camps.


54 posted on 01/24/2014 7:33:58 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Walkingfeather

55 posted on 01/24/2014 7:36:40 AM PST by null and void (We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
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To: tophat9000

True the retards are moving from CA and NY to other states and then voting to turn those places into the same chithole they left.

Every night I pray no more New Yorkers move to GA. We are getting lousy with them. They are all Democrats. If allowed they will turn GA blue but we are not going to let that happen. :-)


56 posted on 01/24/2014 7:37:50 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Fido969
This was the front man in Congress who defended the ATF wiping out the Branch Davidians. This guy has no moral compass at all.

Oh he has a moral compass alright. It works perfectly. It's just that his compass points in the opposite direction of all that is good.

57 posted on 01/24/2014 7:43:44 AM PST by null and void (We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
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To: MrB
Seriously, Chuck, are you going on record in favor of using a tax collection agency, an agency of the federal government,

to attack those whose political views you disagree with?

Eh? Is there something wrong with that????

58 posted on 01/24/2014 7:44:59 AM PST by null and void (We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
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To: tophat9000

Schumer was one of the senators to initially told the IRS to investigate the tea party.

Why hasn’t the tea party filed a class action lawsuit against those senators who did this?


59 posted on 01/24/2014 7:48:17 AM PST by Whenifhow
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To: tophat9000
Worth repeating:
So by Schumer own logic..if it is ok to use the IRS to attack your political enemies ..... and the IRS is now involved in healthcare.... is it okay then to deny healthcare or medical services to people you politically do not agree with?
There it is folks, as raw and as naked as fascism gets.
60 posted on 01/24/2014 7:54:19 AM PST by null and void (We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
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