Posted on 05/14/2013 10:32:47 PM PDT by grundle
Full title: Carney: White House notified of IRS targeting tea party ‘several weeks ago’; Obama: I found out Friday
White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a press conference Tuesday that the White House was notified about the IRS targeting tea party groups “several weeks ago.” This comes a day after President Obama said he found out about it from news reports on Friday of last week.
During a press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday, President Obama was asked about the IRS scandal. He responded, ”I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this. I think it was on Friday.”
However, Carney said Tuesday that first a report had to be compiled by the IRS’s inspector general and then when it was completed, it was passed on to the administration.
“A notification is appropriate and routine and that is what happened and that happened several weeks ago,” Carney said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
If it wasn’t on his teleprompter, he didn’t read it.
A 75 IQ press secretary for an 95 IQ president.
Is that exploding excrement at the bottom of cascade of the Obama spew waterfall? LOLLOL!
Ahhhh So..
Nice touch with the United Nations on his podium.
Now that you mention it Steely Tom, it DOES look like some sort of colon product! Oooohhhh.
If so, I’ll bet his breath could gag a maggot ...
I think you have that backwards
Try lying a bit better you creep!
they may have a hard time saying misspoke or mistake on this one. clearly old purple lip lied.
Did he say which Friday?
That covers a lot of ground.
And the IRS is scheduled to have all our medical records and to decide who gets what kind of medical care starting next year?
So is Obama stoned all day long ?
Please, people, we have to be fair to the Fairy King.
It only says the administration was notified, not that Obongo personally was told.
The King can’t be expected to know every little detail of what’s going on, he has much more important things to deal with, like scheduling the next fund raiser, getting ready for the next golf outing, or planning the guest list for the next gala Sepia House party.
And maybe he was told but he simply forgot, like the time he signed the VIP guest book at Westminster Abbey, and wrote down the wrong year. Minor details like that are SO hard to remember.
Pot will do that to you.
In July last year, the Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 watchdog groups submitted a petition challenging the IRS regulations, calling them overbroad and in defiance of congressional intent and court rulings. Nearly a year later, on July 17, the IRS responded with a three-paragraph letter suggesting that the agency might consider reviewing its rules.
“The IRS is aware of the current public interest in this issue,” wrote Lois G. Lerner, director of exempt organizations at the IRS. “These regulations have been in place since 1959. We will consider proposed changes in this area as we work with the IRS Office of Chief Counsel and the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Policy to identify tax issues that should be addressed through regulations and other published guidance.”
Watchdog groups view the letter as an important step forward in the push for greater disclosure of political contributions.
“This could be a major breakthrough in the effort to close down massive amounts of secret money that is flowing into federal elections through groups claiming to be” nonprofits, said Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer.
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/04/obama-nominates-.html
April 17, 2009
Obama Nominates William J. Wilkins to be IRS Chief Counsel
Wilkins President Obama today nominated William J. Wilkins to be Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and Assistant General Counsel in the Department of the Treasury. From the White House press release:
William J. Wilkins of Washington, DC has been a partner in the Tax Practice Group of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (also known as WilmerHale) since 1988. He has a broad tax practice that includes counseling nonprofit organizations, business entities, and investment funds on tax compliance, business transactions, and government investigations. Prior to joining WilmerHale, Wilkins was Staff Director and Chief Counsel of the United States Senate Committee on Finance. Wilkins joined the Democratic staff of the Committee in 1981 and served as tax counsel before becoming Staff Director and Chief Counsel in 1987. Prior to joining the Finance Committee staff, Wilkins was an associate with King & Spalding in Atlanta, GA. Wilkins is Chair of the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association, the nation’s largest association of tax lawyers. He has been active in the Section for many years, having previously served as Section Vice-Chair and as Chair of two Section Committees. He has previously served on the governing boards of the American College of Tax Counsel and the American Tax Policy Institute. Wilkins is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1519089/posts
All of the above-named groups have received large contributions from Soros' Open Society Institute. Common Cause has received $650,000; Democracy 21, $300,000; Public Citizen, $275,000; and Public Campaign, $1.3 million.(10) The Campaign Legal Center acknowledges on its Web site that it too has received "generous financial support" from the Open Society Institute as well as from other leftwing foundations.
wiki:
In 1969 Wertheimer married Linda Wertheimer,[13] now Senior National Correspondent for National Public Radio, and former NPR national political correspondent and co-host of the NPR news magazine program All Things Considered.[14]
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/13/161111316/are-superpacs-good-for-democracy
AGAINST THE MOTION
Trevor Potter is a former commissioner (1991–1995) and chairman (1994) of the U.S. Federal Election Commission. He is the founder, president and general counsel of the Campaign Legal Center. Potter served as general counsel to the 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns of John McCain. He is also an attorney at Caplin & Drysdale, where he leads the firm's political law practice. He is also notable for appearing on the television program The Colbert Report to discuss the founding and progress of the Colbert superPAC.
Jonathan Soros ...
Surprisingly, last night Jon Stuart cut Obama a new a$$hole about all this. Very funny.
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