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House GOP mad that favorite whipping boy still on job at IRS
Associated Press ^ | Apr 5, 2017 6:40 PM EDT | Stephen Ohlemacher

Posted on 04/05/2017 4:04:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Unhappy that their favorite whipping boy is still in charge of the IRS, House Republicans asked President Donald Trump on Wednesday to fire Commissioner John Koskinen.

Fifteen Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee sent Trump a letter asking him to can Koskinen. They said trust in the IRS has hit rock bottom and that under Koskinen, the IRS destroyed evidence when Congress was investigating the tax agency for inappropriately singling out conservative groups for extra scrutiny.

“He also misled Congress in the process, intentionally degraded customer service at the agency, and has since lost the trust of the American people,” the committee members wrote.

The scandal over conservative groups happened before Koskinen became commissioner. President Barack Obama appointed Koskinen in the aftermath, and his five-year term ends in November. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: appropaganda; fakenews; irs; irsscandal; koskinen; obama; obamalegacy; snark
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Ohlemacher is really laying on the snark, isn’t he.
1 posted on 04/05/2017 4:04:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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You stupid schmucks having fun out theah in fly-ovah country..?

Tractor pulls, church, and 4H..? Go f*ck ya sisters..! AHAHAHAH..!

You'll nevah get ridda ME..!!!

2 posted on 04/05/2017 4:07:21 PM PDT by gaijin
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3 posted on 04/05/2017 4:08:21 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Olog-hai

4 posted on 04/05/2017 4:09:24 PM PDT by gaijin
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Every time I see those two wretched evil faces I harbor dark fantasies of them forced on their knees as Negan shows them “Lucille”.


5 posted on 04/05/2017 4:12:46 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
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The house can still refer both of them for prosecution if they want. That’d give Trump more than enough cover to fire Koskinen and then prosecute them both.


6 posted on 04/05/2017 4:17:29 PM PDT by Velvet_Jones
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AP at one time was a respectable “news” agency. Editorializing like that in a news story is amateurish and unprofessional. I guess that’s the current state of mainstream journalism in the U.S.


7 posted on 04/05/2017 4:18:09 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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Cocky, evil, FU arrogance personified.


8 posted on 04/05/2017 4:22:32 PM PDT by Fungi (What is the most important fungus the world has ever known?)
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To the author, biased much?


9 posted on 04/05/2017 4:24:04 PM PDT by Crucial
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House should have done their job in the first place. Now they call on trump. Like you said, “Its not to late for Congress to charge this A$$HAT and Lerner”. Problem is they don’t have the stones to do it.


10 posted on 04/05/2017 4:32:17 PM PDT by DrDude (To the Victor go the spoils! Kick A$$ Trump.)
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I guess that’s the current state of mainstream journalism in the U.S.

The MSM continues to respond to its loss of credibility by increasing its already-outrageous leftist bias.

11 posted on 04/05/2017 4:32:32 PM PDT by TChad (Propagandists should not be treated like journalists.)
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Probably not worth anyone’s time to get rid of him now since he’s gone in November anyway.


12 posted on 04/05/2017 4:48:55 PM PDT by Boomer (The modern day leftist dems are the party of criminally insane propagandists.)
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Why didn’t the stupid sons of bitches IMPEACH him? How dare they bash Trump for this.


13 posted on 04/05/2017 5:08:40 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Ciaphas Cain

No doubt those 2 deserve the “Lucille Special”


14 posted on 04/05/2017 5:44:53 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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Everyone is against we conservatives. Why else would he still be there. Also why attack us for standing against rynocare


15 posted on 04/05/2017 6:07:25 PM PDT by Brimack34 (Where's Sarah)
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The house can still refer both of them for prosecution if they want. That’d give Trump more than enough cover to fire Koskinen and then prosecute them both.

The House will not refer jack shi!. The House is made up of the most incompetent fools.. Never forget these do nothing Republicans and it is beginning to like we have the same. President Trump has too many projects working.

16 posted on 04/05/2017 6:10:47 PM PDT by Logical me
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The Associalistic Press continues to publish far left opinion piece fake news? So what's new?
17 posted on 04/05/2017 6:13:12 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Oh, they aren’t incompetent; they’re liberals. They just have no love for the Constitution.


18 posted on 04/05/2017 6:28:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: gaijin; Patriot Babe
Something I just whipped up on my iPad Pro:


19 posted on 04/05/2017 7:30:37 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
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To: Olog-hai

The federal bureaucracy is lawless because the treasonous GOPe is obstructing the very effort to pummel the Democrat Party crooks. I’m talking about you Paul Ryan, you Eddie Munster-looking, POS dweeb.


20 posted on 04/05/2017 8:50:37 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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