Not bad from the Washington Post but I would have preferred "CHILLING" over "appalling".
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You'd think the geniuses at WaPo would know by now that Obama only apologizes to foreign countries. Apologize to the American people? Riiiigggghhhhttt.
Wanna bet the culprits are black and/or gay?
If Congress can identify the commissar who gave the orders and managed the harassment and just who was the White House control, it can get interesting.
I'll take a pair of lines that no one else has criticized. WaPo is out of touch if they think threatening "the trust and the voluntary cooperation of citizens" is something new for the Obama years.
The Obama people lost my trust more than four years ago, within days of the Inauguration. And my "voluntary" cooperation comes only from the fact that even after cutting way back on my income (and now retiring), I'm still in the high-income, frequently-audited bracket. I cooperate out of fear, although I despise Obama, Holder, and their goals for our government and for our country. There is nothing voluntary here beyond a conscious decision to stay free until the storm strikes or passes. Overall, those who still have a job with WaPo have no idea how bad things are for those who are working, or for those who are not working - reporters are a lot like Obama's inner circle.
"So it was quite a relief to learn Friday that we had a shiny brand-new front page story to replace Benghazi, which had become national news for two days in a row."
Our laws are mostly partisan. Gun laws are partisan. Tax laws are partisan. That’s how we’ve done things for the past century or so.
Bias is a job for the press. WaPo is upset that someone else stepped on their turf.
The law is blind to political viewpoint, and so are its enforcers, most especially journalists. Any violation of this principle threatens the trust and the voluntary cooperation of citizens upon which this democracy depends..
So it was appalling to learn Friday that the Washington Post and others had improperly targeted conservative groups for scrutiny.
The Washington Post and others insisted emphatically that partisanship had nothing to do with it. However, it seems that groups with progressive in their titles did not receive the same scrutiny.
If it was not partisanship, was it incompetence? Stupidity, on a breathtaking scale? At this point, the Washington post and others have lost any standing to determine and report on what exactly happens.
(My re-write). Satire
“The IRS insisted emphatically that partisanship had nothing
to do with it.
Bullcrap! There should be prisons terms for everyone involved in this tyranny.
The media has lost all credibility. They are probably inserting this story before they put out several whitewash stories. This and the Benghazi stories should have been investigated last October, not now. Instead they were busy at that time criticizing a press release/statement from Romney. They also helped push that youtube video lie.
How big of a deal is abusing the tax system to gain an advantage over the political opposition? Dont forget that it was one of the charges in the Watergate articles of impeachment:
Article 2
Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in disregard of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has repeatedly engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens, impairing the due and proper administration of justice and the conduct of lawful inquiries, or contravening the laws governing agencies of the executive branch and the purposed of these agencies.
This conduct has included one or more of the following:
1.
He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.
They want to make sure all the trails to the WH are stamped out and potential whistle-blowers are handled before they get out in front of the public.
Male Bovine excrement. Your just made the mistake of getting caught.
By "this sort of thing," what they mean is "getting caught."
This political persucution by fascist federal bureaucrats is not new. It got so bad with Interior Department Nazis going after ranchers in one county, that the sheriff threatened to unleash his SWAT team on the a**holes. After that, the federal worms crawled back under the rocks.