The Lois Lerner Defense - File it the next time the IRS calls you up. (Mark Steyn)

National Review Online ^ | May 31, 2013 | Mark Steyn

[neverdem]

We have the president of the United States’ word as a gentleman that he knew nothing about the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of his enemies until he “learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this.”

Furthermore, although the commissioner of the IRS, Douglas Shulman, visited Obama’s White House no fewer than 157 times, which is 156 times more than his predecessor Mark Everson ever visited the White House, we know that this was for legitimate Easter-egg rolls, as he testified to Congress, and meetings to discuss Obamacare. The Easter Bunny, one should note, visits the White House two to four times as often as the average IRS commissioner did before Mr. Shulman came along. But you can’t make a health-care omelet without breaking Easter eggs: It is one of the many distinctive features of Obama-style “health” “care” “reform” that, while it has not led to the hiring of a single additional doctor, nurse, or hospital janitor, it did require the biggest expansion of the IRS since the Second World War. So, when he wasn’t rolling Easter eggs and advising the moppets on whether they needed to declare the luxury Belgian white chocolate balls with praline filling, he was participating in vital meetings on how many extra SWAT teams he was going to need to enforce the new colonoscopy non-compliance penalty.

Let us also overlook the excellent treatment received from the IRS by members of the president’s family. Although acting commissioner Steven Miller apologized for the “horrible customer service” conservative taxpayers had gotten, a gentleman by the name of Malik Obama received impeccable, express service when he took the precaution of mailing in his non-profit application from N’giya, Kenya, rather than notoriously slower mail processing centers such as Phoenix and Dallas...

[neverdem]

Ping

[Venturer]

I don’t claim to be an intellectual giant, but Damnit when people tell me blatant lies and expect me to be stupid enough believe them I get pissed off.

Half of the American Public IS —”IS” stupid enough to believe everything this Hybrid Non-American POS says.

[nascarnation]

Of course FReepers understood how the Chicago mob operates long before Obama came along.

I wonder how many of the media will dare to report it?

[Ken H]

Half of the American Public IS —”IS” stupid enough to believe everything this Hybrid Non-American POS says.

It's not about discernment. It's about their perceived self-interest.

[djf]

Every time that crouton opens his mouth, he KNOWS about all the “HOPE AND CHANGE” we need!

Oddly, he never KNOWS CRAP about what’s going on in his administration right under his nose!!

[upchuck]

Good Steyn as usual. Thanks for linking to the print version.

[4Liberty]

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

Isn't there a tax (IRS) protest brewing here yet?

Mr Stien has this; "I am filing the Lois Lerner defense, and then say as she did to Congress I have not done anything wrong. And I will not answer any questions. Every man his own Lois Lerner!" Which isn't bad, but requires too much from the average low info types...

What if it was made much more simple? Don't sign your tax forms, stamp them with a famous name instead! Make it a game, Pick your celebrity!

Al Capone, John Doe, Elvis, God the Father, John Handcock, Alan Greenspan or Lois Lerner. Wouldn't it be fun to include some sort of overly lawyered up mumbo-jumbo as part of the signature that disclaimed any responsibility under clause 37 part (b) of claim 13 section 85? Let em chew on that with close to 50% of the self reporting tax returns we file. Make it a fad! Make the IRS take 100 million people to court trying to find out if the tax form is theirs or not. Another thought, is filing it with the SSN number erased.

[JLS]

Mark Steyn ping.

Freepmail me, if you want on or off the Mark Steyn ping list.

Thanks for the heads up neverdem.

[basil]

Ping to read tomorrow

[SaraJohnson]

All this commie/racist persecution does is make me feel like doubling up and going at them harder, like a pit bull. We are stepping up tea party activism.

[uncitizen]

On May 30, 2011, they applied for tax-exempt status, and had their approval signed less than a month later by Lois Lerner herself, and conveniently backdated by Lois to cover the two-and-a-half years the enterprising Malik had already been raking in tax-deductible donations from Americans.

hmmm that's interesting...

[livius]

Well, since Bambi is sending Holder’s minions out on a Muslim friendliness tour starting June 3 (telling Muslims how evil Christians are) and Malik is best buds with a major Somali terrorist who wants to install Islamic law (sharia) throughout Africa, I guess it’s not surprising.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

djf ~:” Every time that crouton opens his mouth, he KNOWS about all the “HOPE AND CHANGE” we need! “

He promised “Hope and Change “..
all we got was “Beans and Franks “ !

sorta like Beuller :
Beulller ,...Beuller ,... Beuller..
“If you stuck a lump of coal up his a**,
in two weeks you’d have a diamond” – Ferris Bueller

[Intolerant in NJ]

...and had their approval signed less than a month later by Lois Lerner herself, and conveniently backdated by Lois to cover the two-and-a-half years the enterprising Malik had already been raking in “tax-deductible” contributions...heard the latest too-cute-by-half argument that there was no IRS anti-conservative bias on some cable program this afternoon - no conservative applications were denied went the sham - of course, because those conservative applications have been so delayed and drug out that no decision one way or the other has been announced on most of them - I'm hoping some enterprising congressional staffer is doing a quick and dirty statistical study looking at such issues as time taken to render a ruling on conservative vs. liberal groups - both may have been targeted for reviews, but for conservatives the reviews seem to have taken two to three years at least, but here we have one liberal organization that seems to have taken minus two-and-one-half years......

[Ron C.]

For a cleaner easier to read source, use this link...

[autumnraine]

Heard Mark talking about Malik thhe other day and learned more than I already knew. He did all this feom Nairobi???!

[Tax-chick]

Let’s take it as read that, when U.S. taxpayers wind up giving tax breaks to an entity linked to the butchers of Darfur, it’s pure coincidence that the racket turns out to be run by the president’s brother.

This is just too much.

[Seattle Conservative]

Here’s a bit more info on Malik, in case you haven’t seen this thread/article:

The IRS and FBI: Breach of Faith
American Spectator ^ | 5.30.13 | Jeffrey Lord

Posted on Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:21:53 AM by neverdem

IRS pass for Obama brother tied to terrorist: FBI, IRS target Tea Party activist.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3025450/posts