Posted on 05/16/2014 7:21:26 AM PDT by EXCH54FE
On May 21, 2013 the National Republican Senatorial Committee sent the IRS a Freedom of Information Act request asking for "any and all documents or records, including but not limited to electronic documents, e-mails, paper documents, photographs (electronic or hard copy), or audio files," related to correspondence from January 1, 2009 and May 21, 2013 between thirteen different Democrat members of Congress and top IRS officials. Those officials include former IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman, former Commissioner Steven Miller, senior IRS official Joseph Grant and former head of tax exempt groups Lois Lerner. Members of Congress named in the request include Sen. Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Reid (D-NV), DSCC Chair Sen. Bennet (D-CO), Sen. Landrieu (D-LA), Sen. Pryor (D-AR), Sen. Hagan (D-NC), Sen. Begich (D-AK), Sen. Shaheen (D-NH), Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO), Sen. Franken (D-MN), Sen. Warner (D-VA), Rep. Braley and Rep. Peters (D-MI).
Since that request was received by the IRS nearly one year ago, IRS Tax Law Specialists Robert Thomas and Denise Higley have asked for more time to fulfill the request six times.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
I want to see a “FOIA” “Request” about the GOP-e “mis-use” of the IRS, THEY BOTH(Dem and GOP-e)HAVE DONE THIS! Why do you think NO IRS Sub-Committee.
No telling how many names would show up and with no justice department I’m not betting they will be exposed.
THE LIKELY SUSPECTS----DEMS STOOP TO CONQUEUR
Democrats order IRS to act to save their seats
by Alexander Bolton / The Hill, 2/13/14
Senate Democrats facing tough elections this year want the IRS to play a more aggressive role in regulating outside groups expected to spend millions of dollars on their races. In the wake of the IRS targeting scandal, the Democrats are publicly prodding the agency instead of lobbying them directly.
Dems are also careful to say the IRS should treat conservative and liberal groups equally, but they’re concerned about an impending tidal wave of attack ads funded by GOP-allied organizations. Much of the funding for those groups is secret, in contrast to the donations lawmakers collect, which must be reported publicly.
One of the most powerful groups is Americans for Prosperity, funded by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch. It has already spent close to $30 million on ads attacking Democrats this election cycle. “If they’re claiming the tax relief, the tax benefit to be a nonprofit for social relief or social justice, then that’s what they should be doing,” said Sen. Mark Begich (D), who faces a competitive race in Alaska. “If it’s to give them cover so they can do political activity, that’s abusing the tax code. And either side."
<><><><>Asked if the IRS should play a more active role policing political advocacy by groups that claim to be focused on social welfare, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) responded, “Absolutely. Both on the left and the right,” she said. “As taxpayers, we should not be providing a write-off to groups to do political activity, and that’s exactly what we’re doing.”
Shaheen called the glut of political spending by self-described social welfare groups that qualify under section 501(c) (4) of the tax code “outrageous.” Shaheen is in a good position now but could find herself embroiled in a tight campaign if former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass) challenges her.<><><><>
Sen. Mark Pryor (Ark.), the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent, said the IRS has jurisdiction over 501(c)(4) groups, as well as charities, which fall under section 5/01(c)(3) of the tax code and sometimes engage in quasi-political activity.
“That whole 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4) [issue], those are IRS numbers. It is inherently an internal revenue matter,” he said. “There are two things you don’t want in political money, in the fundraising world and expenditure world. You don’t want secret money, and you don’t want unlimited money, and that’s what we have now.” --SNIP--
AS Sec. of the US Treasury, Geithner would have had administrative control of the IRS, and all of its employees, including current scapegoat Lois Lerner.
Geithner would have had to have known of any IRS Program to silence those who opposed the Obama administration that Geithner was a key part of, because the IRS was then the main profit center for the always in debt US Treasury Department.
Hence, anything that might have a a negative effect on the income stream to the IRS, such as protests against the IRS by “dangerous,” (Lerner’s word), anti-Socialist Groups would be considered to be a direct threat by shifty-eyed Geithner, liar Obama and lawless Holder.
The above is speculation, but probable, and thus worthy of Investigation by a House Special Prosecutor or Committee, IMHO, of course.
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Using their own words against this administration is the best way to show them for what they are: enemies of freedom!
If they are involved we need to know NOW since they are up for reelection. I'm calling Pryor's office to ask why the hell he was in contact with the IRS targeting Tea Party members!
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Racketeering...the next US Attorney General under a republican president should pursue felony charges against these co-conspirators.
THIS needs to be part of an ad the RNC runs this year!
Using their own words against this administration is the best way to show them for what they are: enemies of freedom!
And impeachment of Holder and Obama should be a party plank.
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” Ayn Rand
You are closer to the truth on this subject than anyone has ever come.
The malevolent parasitic strain of Chicago criminals wasted no time.....they had a stranglehold on the US Treasury from the getgo. The minute Obama/Valerie/Rahm/Axelrod/Geithner, and that diseased bunch, landed in DC they did two things that were apparently crucial to their evil plans
(a) they took control of the US Census;
(b) Obama placed his COS Rahm Emanuel in control of the US Dept of the Treasury (the IRS).
THE SMOKING GUN---WSJ REPORT--On Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the Obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.
When he got to Treasury, WH COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings of the Treasury that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers, prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09
More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html
THIS MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD shortly after quitting his powerful WH job as Obama's COS, Rahm held a presser declaring he "just remembered" he really, Really wanted to be Mayor of Chicago. Then Rahm announced he had magically "raised" $10 million for his campaign in "just a matter of weeks." (waiting for hysterical laughter to die down). Ya gotta wonder how much Wall Street Rahm wired offshore when Obama put him in charge of the entire US Treasury.
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Rahm Emanuel takes over Chicago / May 16, 2011
EDITED EXCERPT .... an exciting time in the inbred world of Chicago Democratic politics.... Democratic don, Richard M. Daley ruled for 22 years, inheriting the mayoralty from his father, Mayor Richard J. Daley who held on for a generation. Now the ex-chief of staff of Chicagoan Barack Obama (once a state Senator, now president) was installed. US Treasury Secy Tim Geithner was there, and so was Chicagoan David Axelrod, an O team player.
BTW, Mayor Daley's former chief of staff, Valerie Jarrett, hired Obama's wife, Michelle, to work in Chicago City Hall.
Jarret is now ensconced as Obama's chief policy advisor. In Chicagoland vernacular, "chief policy advisor" means "wire-transfer artist".
Mayor Emanuel's innovative ways commenced early on---his organization was getting $50G's for the best seats at the inauguration (mmmm........that accounts for another couple million scammed from Treasury).
The mayoralty (and its--cough--"benefits") is a job Emanuel has coveted since he was a machine go-fer back in the 1980s.....before he became Bill Clinton's national campaign finance chairman and then a dual role as senior White House aide and Goldman Sachs lobbyist and then (gasp) becoming a multi-millionaire, thanks to a measly few months at a local investment firm...then a (gag) Congressman for four terms---then White House chief of staff for Obama that helped create the 2010 Republican House landslide.
SOURCE http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/05/rahm-emanuel-new-chicago-mayor-tim-geithner.html
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EXCERPT---FOURTEEN TRILLION DOLLARS Behind The Real Size of the Obama Bailout; A guide to the abbreviations, acronyms, and obscure programs that make up the $14 trillion federal bailout of Wall Street
SOURCE motherjones.com
Mon Dec. 21, 2009 12:23 PM PST
The price tag for the Wall Street bailout is popularly put at $700 billion—---the actual size of TARP--the Troubled Assets Relief Program. But TARP is just the best known program in an array of more than 30 overseen by Treasury Department and Federal Reserve that have paid out or put aside untraceable money to bail out financial firms and inject money into the markets.
To get a sense of the size of the real $14 trillion bailout, see MJ chart at web site. A guide to the pieces of the puzzle includes massive untraceable Treasury Department bailout programs.
In September 2008, the US Treasury (controlled by Obama/Emanuel) announced that it would insure the holdings of publicly offered money market mutual funds. According to the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), these guarantees could have potentially cost the federal government more than $3 trillion [PDF].
Public-Private Investment Fund: This joint Treasury-Federal Reserve program bought toxic assets from banks and brokerages—as much as $5 billion of assets per firm. According to SIGTARP, the government's potential exposure from the PPIF is between $500 million and $1 trillion [PDF].
TARP: As part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Treasury controlled by Obama/Emanuel made loans to or investments more than 750 banks and financial institutions. $650 billion has been paid out (not including HAMP; see below). As of December 21, 2009, $117.5 billion of that has been repaid.
--SNIP---LONG READ---go to web site to read more and checkout the shocking financial charts.
SOURCE http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/behind-real-size-bailout
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Musta been one hefty payday for the Chicago criminals. They all promptly jetted off on another celebrated multi-million dollar tax-paid vacation to elite island paradises. Places to open offshore accounts, where know-it-all prog/liberals sip and whine about the terrible burden they bear, controlling the levers of the US government, AND knowing what’s really, really good for us peons.
Sen. Mark Pryor (Ark.), the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent, said the IRS has jurisdiction over 501(c)(4) groups, as well as charities, which fall under section 5/01(c)(3) of the tax code and sometimes engage in quasi-political activity.
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Raising money for Mark Pryor’s reelection...
State: Massachusetts
Primary focus (state or federal): Federal
Viewpoint: Liberal
IRS Employer Identification Number (EIN): #202517748
Affiliated PAC: ActBlue
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I bet these groups didn’t receive letters from the IRS requesting ‘additional information’ on their donor lists, etc.
Alliance for Economic Justice
501(c)(5)
Internal
A liberal coalition of more than 20 unions, representing more than 5 million workers ...
American Family Voices
501(c)(4)
Democratic-leaning group led by former Clinton aide Michael Lux ...
Center for American Progress
501(c)(3)
501(c)(4)
Democratic think tank formed to find progressive solutions to a host of problems ...
MoveOn.org
527
PAC
501(c)(4)
Airing TV ads that are critical of President Bush in key battleground states ...
Natural Resources Defense Council
527
501(c)(3)
501(c)(4)
A national environmental organization with more than one million members and online activists ...
Progressive Donor Network
501(c)(4)
Democratic group focused on opposing President Bush’s reelection ...
State: District of Columbia
Primary focus (state or federal): Federal
Viewpoint: Liberal
IRS Employer Identification Number (EIN): #521729701
Affiliated PAC: Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund
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Mark Pryor FEC filing - April 2014
http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/527/14960635527/14960635527.pdf#navpanes=0
What a hideous article. The National Republican Senatorial Committee is a quasi political organization and has no business getting affirmative FOI responses vis-a-vis opposition party emails and work product just on a whim. Every Tom, Dick and Harry would be FOI’ing every candidate and incumbent.
And it’s a stupid move making it so prominently a public issue. It steals the thunder and will caste a partisan cloud over the heads of GOP select committee members looking for the very same documents for official reasons.
-1 for Katie Pavlich and the NRSC for playing right into the Liberals strength — making political over stupid things the GOP does.
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Opponent Tom Cotton needs to ask Pryor when Obama is coming by to campaign for him (snix).
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STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE As far back as 2008, at the presidential debate in Nashville, Democrat candidate Obama advanced his signature healthcare plan---ultimately enacted, by an historic straight Democrat party-line vote, into the "Affordable Care Act"
QUOTING 2008 OBAMA: "No. 1, let me just repeat, if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I’m going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You’ll still have choice of doctor.” Repeated over and over ---- with the promise that every American family would be saving $2500.00 on healthcare costs.
Significantly, Obamba NEVER corrected lock-stepping Democrats, all reading from the same Democrat talking points, all of them repeating the same Democrat promises---over and over again.
LOCK-STEPPING PARTY LOYALTY NOT SEEN SINCE 1930-40's ERA EUROPE Obama And The Dems marched in lockstep. The persistent Dumbocrat drumbeat ---- in obeisance to Obama ---- kept ringing reassuringly in our ears: "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."
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Mark Pryor looks for Obamacare enrollees who've paid for insurance, who are actually insured, for millenials duped into paying for other people's h/care and for the "underserved"....who had no insurance before ACA took effect.
Obama came to 'oversee' the tornado damage in Arkansas and Pryor met him there.
Don't they look like they know what they are doing? /s
Neither has ever worked a day in his life!
Photo op, pure and simple, nothing else. As if them being there is going to change anything or help anyone! And notice too, there is NO ONE there to 'greet' them. Can't imagine why.
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For his part, Pryor has sought to distance himself from Obama and the national Democratic Party.
As The Washington Post notes, Pryor "likes to cast himself to voters as an independent senator on Capitol Hill" during his campaign in Arkansas.
"I'm not there (in the Senate) to represent the president or his party," Pryor said at a recent campaign stop. "I'm not there to oppose the president or his party. ... My job is to represent Arkansas."
BS!!!
No regrets: Mark Pryor "I would vote for Obamacare all over again"
April 1, 2014
OBAMA'S RUBBER STAMP
Mark Pryor Stands With ObamaCare, Against Arkansans Votes with Obama a Shocking 90% of the Time
When selling ObamaCare to his constituents, Mark Pryor repeatedly echoed President Obama's broken promise that if you liked your doctor, you would be able to keep your doctor. Yet, many Arkansans are in jeopardy of losing their doctors, health plans, and will see costs dramatically increase. Unfortunately, Mark Pryor has a habit of making false claims about ObamaCare to Arkansans including:
• Slashed: In 2010 Mark Pryor voted to cut Medicare Advantage to pay for ObamaCare.
• Lied: Mark Pryor promised ObamaCare would "drive down costs for families, small businesses, and government."
• Misled: Mark Pryor repeated the Obama mantra, "the government will not stand between you and your doctor."
• Cancelled: In September 2010 Mark Pryor voted to prevent insurance companies from keeping their grandfathered status.
In September 2012, Pryor Said Businesses Would Be Able To Keep Their Health Care Plans. PRYOR: “I think what business wants to know is, what’s the bottom line on health care coverage? Are we gonna be able to stick with our plan? The answer is yes.” (Arkansas Business, “U.S. Senator Mark Pryor On Healthcare Reform,” www.youtube.com, Uploaded 9/28/12)
In December 2009, Pryor Said The Bill Would “Protect And Expand An Individual’s Choice Of Doctors And Insurance Plans.” “Elements of this package will drive down costs for families, small businesses, and government; protect and expand an individual’s choice of doctors and insurance plans without any government interference; and assure affordable, reliable healthcare for every Arkansan.” (Sen. Mark Pryor, “On Senate Passage Of Health Care Reform,” Press Release, 12/24/09)
Pryor: “There Is No Public Option In This Bill. There Is No Government Takeover Of Health Care. The Government Will Not Stand Between You And Your Doctor.” (Raju Chebium, “Ark. Senators To Vote For Health Care Reform Bill,” Gannett News Service, 12/23/09)
The Mark Pryor Voting Record:
Voted for Obama’s failed $787 billion “stimulus” program
02/13/09 - Vote #64
Cast the deciding vote in support of Obamacare
12/24/09 - Vote #396
Joined Obama to support the Wall Street bailout
10/02/08 - Vote #213
Voted to raise taxes on 80% of Arkansans
01/01/2013 - Vote #251
Voted to raise the debt limit by $2.4 trillion
08/02/11 - Vote #123
Supported the Bridge to Nowhere and other wasteful earmarks
10/20/05 - Vote #262
Supported the “Assault Weapons Ban” gun control law
03/02/04 - Vote #24
Voted to require workers to join a union in order to get a job
01/22/09 - Vote #11
Voted to force taxpayers to fund abortions
04/14/11 - Vote #60
Received a 100% rating from the pro-abortion group NARAL
2011 NARAL
Opposed term limits for members of the House and Senate
02/02/12 - Vote #11
Voted to raid Social Security to fund other programs
04/02/09 - Vote #151
Voted to allow the sale of F-16s to Egypt, which is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood
01/31/13 - Vote #9
IMPEACH, IMPEACH, AND IMPEACH. There are three that must go - Head Clown, Holder, IRS (shut it down completely).
Mark Pryor, Remarks At Little Rock, AR Obama Rally, 10/24/08. ...
Mark Pryor: “Let’s Go Out And Work As Hard as we possible can for Barack Obama”
2 weeks ago
After voting for President Obama’s agenda at least 90 percent of the time
“I’m really the most independent senator in Washington,” Pryor told a group of about 25 supporters here in the rice-country town of Hazen. “I’m not there to represent the president or his party. I’m not there to oppose the president or his party. My job is to represent Arkansas.” (Pryor noted that he has served under President George W. Bush, a Republican, and President Obama.)
2008
PRYOR: “All Barack wanted to talk about is his little girls. He is a very rounded person. He is someone you would think what he’s been through in the last four or five years that has a big ego, has a big head, not at all. You know, he’s the kind of guy that is exactly the right guy for this moment in history.”
PRYOR: “Obama’s done several things throughout this campaign that are very unorthodox. And that, by the way, that scares Republicans, but he has done several things that are very unorthodox, and he’s been able to pull it together. My sense is, there is a destiny about Barack Obama. I think there is a destiny about him.”
PRYOR: “If you could tell every person you see to go out and work for and vote for Barack Obama. I said, ‘I’ll do it. I’ll do it.’ And let me tell you why. Because Barack Obama has the leadership. He has the vision. He has the hope that this country needs right now. Amen?” CROWD: “Amen.” PRYOR: ” One of the things I’ve learned since I’ve been in Washington is that elections have consequences: 2000 election, 2004 election. But guess what? This election’s going to have consequences, too. Let’s go out and work as hard as we possibly can for Barack Obama. And let’s bring the change to America that we need.”
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