Posted on 07/30/2015 10:48:17 AM PDT by Isara
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) accused the IRS on Wednesday of purposefully targeting conservative groups for political reasons, and failing years later to have cleaned up the problem.
But Cruz, who’s running for president in 2016, made sure that a comparison of two White House occupants — President Obama and Richard Nixon — were part of his case as well.
Cruz, who’s made abolishing the IRS a part of his presidential pitch, noted that Nixon had tried to use the agency to target his political opponents some four decades ago.
The difference during Obama’s tenure, Cruz suggested, is that the IRS didn’t have the courage to stand up to the administration.
“If the IRS has become a partisan arm of the Democratic National Committee, there can be no stronger argument for ending the IRS as we know it,” Cruz said at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing.
Lois Lerner, then a top IRS official, acknowledged more than two years ago that the agency wrongly gave extra scrutiny to conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.
John Koskinen, the IRS’s commissioner, has said it’s not his call to say whether the agency deliberately targeted those groups, though at Wednesday’s hearing he did note that a Treasury inspector general found no evidence of political motivation.
The IRS chief, who saw House Republicans call for his job this week, added that he’s now testified before Congress some 30 times in roughly a year and a half as commissioner about the tax-exempt manner.
He found an ally in Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who accused Cruz of unspooling “a rehashing of complex conspiracy theories already thoroughly investigated.”
“These are very serious allegations,” Coons said. “They are also unfounded.”
But Cruz latched on to Lerner’s own beliefs – who once called conservatives “crazies” – to make his case.
“Richard Nixon’s ghost must have been smiling,” Cruz said.
Mark Levin has been calling Obie “Millhouse” for as long as I can remember.
WRONG WRON WRONG Obama makes Nixon look like a Saint!!
Agreed, Nixon was George Washington compared to the Kenyan.
I’m not sure Obama is old enough to even remember who Nixon was.
Hitler was dead ten years the day I was born, and I remember who he was.
For Obama and his ilk, Nixon is Hitler, or maybe worse.
Obie from Nairobi has all the worst attributes of just about evey “leader” but a cannibal chieftain!
I understand what he’s trying to say. However, it is unfair to Nixon.
One of the 5 positive effects of Trump on GOP ===> Tiptoeing on eggshell days are so over.
Nixon only talked about it. Once. Hussein does it as a matter of course.
Nixon, stated “I am not a crook.” Obama stats “I am not a crock of crap”. I beg to differ as obama always has flies flying around him.
President Nixon loved the United States of America, and he was a great leader. I have met a sailor who was under Nixon’s command in the Navy. He told me stories about how Nixon would gamble with the men and that he would often win most of the money. Nixon would give the money back to their wifes or buy something for the sailor. He never kept the money he won. He also told me that one of the sailors found out that his washing machine at home was broken and that he did not have any extra money to send home to get a new one for his wife. Nixon found out about the problem and had a washing machine delivered to the sailor’s home. This old sailor told me that his men would have followed Nixon to hell, they had so much respect for him. Nobody with half a brain will ever respect obama. I saw President Nixon at Senator Allen Ellender’s funeral and even though I was just a kid, when I waved at him he smiled and waved back at me. I know he was not perfect, but I always respected him.
Nixon was an adult American who loved his country
Obama not so much on either count....
yup.
It shows the power and relevance of the Indonesian school system and American politics.
That’s why he can recite the Koran.
F/n alien!
The big difference is that Pres. Nixon loved America. He was NOTHING like 0bama.
Ted Cruz Ping! Well, he wasn’t muslim or gay, either. And he didn’t do drugs.
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