G.O.P. = Give Obama (Supreme) Power
Former IRS official Lois Lerner and her colleagues mired in the debacle seemed concerned that the 2010 ruling striking caps on corporate political donations would influence the political activities of nonprofits, according to emails in a draft of a new Oversight and Government Reform Republican report, obtained by POLITICO.
Republicans take it one step further, suggesting the woman who would become the face of the scandal wanted to use the IRS to limit the influence of Republican donors.
Lerner’s lawyer William Taylor III of Zuckerman Spaeder called the accusation “pure fiction.”
Taylor said Lerner’s awareness of Citizens United “shouldn’t be a big surprise to anybody.”
“She was of course over the years involved in discussions of cases like Citizens United and what its implications were for the tax-exempt organizations… That’s what she was supposed to do,” he said.
Lerner, as expected, asserted her Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate herself at a hearing that exploded when Issa abruptly ended the hearing, and cut off the microphone of the panel’s top Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings.".....
We have a rogue, out-of-control IRS, and the news is all about a protected-class leftist drama queen “victim” throwing a temper tantrum.
The writing on the wall has been around since 1913.
Malik Obama’s “Barack H. Obama Foundation” received expeditious and potentially illegal tax exempt status from Lois Lerner. The approval was backdated by 38 months. This approval was granted on June 26, 2011 - a Sunday
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G.O.P. = Give Obama (Supreme) Power
Turkey neck needs to be in jail.
Mainline journ-o-listers like Ron Fornier are actually defending this as necessary.
One man's utopia is another man's gulag.