When
faced with the highest levels of unemployment in American History why does the
government trumpet a falling unemployment rate? In the face of overwhelming
evidence of ineptness at best in Benghazi why do our hacks and their flacks
insult us with answers like,
“Dude this was two years ago!” With the obvious politicization of the IRS why
does the president tell
us there isn’t even a smidgen of corruption in the IRS while professional
bureaucrats who really run this country take the 5th, stonewall, and
lie?
The
Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media regales us with oxymoronic
statements such
as, “Despite the unemployment rate plummeting, more than 92 million
Americans remain out of the labor force.” The Great Recession grinds
on
in the lives of everyday working people while our leaders talk about a recovery
that only benefits them and their cronies.
The
shoes in the Benghazi scandal continue to drop finally reaching the point where
go-along to get-along John Boehner has agreed to allow
the House to vote on the establishment of a select Committee so that this long
simmering embarrassment can hopefully come to the truth. But then again,
“What difference at this point does it make?”
Article
2 section 1 of the Articles of Impeachment filed against President Nixon was
about the abuse of power. It stated,
“He has, acting personally and through his subordinated and agents, endeavored
to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional
rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for
purposes not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional
rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigation to be
initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.”
Now
40 years later, under the Obama regime, the
taxman cometh. When massive harassment of conservative groups by the IRS
came to lightas reported in The Daily Caller (DC) we were told:
- Progressives were targeted, too
For
months, Democrats and the media relied on the talking point that progressive
groups also ended up on an IRS “Be on the Lookout” list while the agency was
auditing and seizing information from conservative groups. But as TheDC
reported, IRS agents testified before the House oversight committee that the IRS
scrutinized ACORN groups because it thought they were old groups applying as new
ones; the group Emerge America was scrutinized for potential “improper private
benefit;” and no evidence exists to prove that the IRS targeted any Occupy Wall
Street group.
“Only
seven applications in
the IRS backlog contained the word ‘progressive,’ all of which were then
approved by the IRS… [T]here is simply no evidence that any liberal or
progressive group received enhanced scrutiny because its application
reflected the organization’s political views,” according to an oversight
committee staff report.
- No White House involvement
“Not
necessarily the White House” was the phrase that some Democratic “strategist”
used when attacking one of our Daily Caller stories on cable television last
year. He meant that while the IRS may have been corrupt to its very Washington
core, President Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett have not yet been photographed
sifting through tea party applications
at a desk in the Lincoln Bedroom.
But
we do know, however, courtesy of The
Daily Caller’s reporting, that Lerner exchanged confidential taxpayer
information on conservative groups with White House officials including White
House health-policy adviser Ellen Montz and Deputy Assistant to the President
for Health Policy Jeanne Lambrew, who just happened to be the
most powerful official on Obamacare implementation within the White
House.
- A couple of rogue agents in Cincinnati
Ah,
yes. The “WKRP in Cincinnati” Theory of 2013. You know the episode where the
wacky characters in the Cincinnati office make a little “whoops” and take it
upon themselves to target conservatives nationwide? A team of reporters from The
New York Times, including dreamboat Nicholas Confessore, even went to bat for
the administration on this theory last year, publishing a disgraceful article
about Ohio-based “confusion” and “staff troubles” among “Low-level employees in
what many in the I.R.S. consider a backwater.”
But
at least five different offices ranging from Chicago to Laguna Niguel, CA. were
engaging in this kind of “confusion,” and the whole excuse got torn down like
Riverside Stadium. A Cincinatti-based IRS official said
that Washington “was basically throwing us under the bus.” The bus to the
world-renowned American
Sign Museum.
- Lerner can still cite the Fifth Amendment
That’s
what her lawyer, Bill Taylor, wrote in a
recent letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric
Cantor, calling a possible contempt vote “un-American.” But it’s just not true.
Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment privilege when she made a statement attesting
to her innocence at a May 2013 oversight hearing. The oversight committee and
U.S. House counsel both determined as much.
- It could take years for the IRS to get all of Lerner’s emails
That’s
what new IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who has been threatened with contempt
himself, told oversight
investigators. But the independent group Judicial Watch managed to obtain emails
showing Lerner coordinating with the Department of Justice to potentially
prosecute conservative activists. It only took Judicial Watch one Freedom of
Information Act request to get that stuff. “Now I see why the IRS is scared to
give up the rest of Lois Lerner’s emails,” said oversight
member Rep. Jim Jordan.
- Don’t worry, federal government investigators are on top of things
Eric
Holder’s Department of Justice tapped an Obama political donor to head its
investigation. FBI investigators went months without contacting the conservative
groups that were victimized by the IRS targeting, and leaked to the press that
no criminal charges would be filed in relation to the case before much of the
relevant information we currently have even came out.
The
Obama administration’s investigation of the scandal was such a joke that House
Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte
accused Obama and Holder of “undermining” investigators on multiple
occasions, and joined with other House GOP leaders in calling for a special
counsel to prosecute the case.
But
if the investigation was a joke, here’s the punchline: The Justice Department
has been the only investigative body to ask Lois Lerner any questions, at an
off-the-record “Q+A” that was not under oath.
- Only tea party groups were targeted
Good
for the IRS for taking a firm stand against all those wacky tea party groups
popping up out in Palookaville trying to exercise their little “First Amendment
rights.” Bunch of Koch-funded rednecks.
But
oh wait: The IRS also audited the Leadership Institute, founded by Morton C.
Blackwell, which has been one of the Washington area’s foremost conservative
activist training organizations since 1979, even demanding
personal information about the institute’s college-aged interns. Oh yeah,
and the IRS also told
a pro-life group “you can’t force your religion” and tried to stop pro-life
activists from picketing Planned Parenthood clinics.
- The targeting is over now
Sure
it is. Just ask
Ron Paul and his group Campaign for Liberty’s donors about that.
Why
do they lie to us?
The
easy answer is because they can. The major media has morphed from a watchdog to
a lapdog barking on cue that everything is all right, there’s nothing to see
here, move along.
The
best government money can buy has shown us that they can safely operate on the
assumption that American voters choose their leaders based on the philosophy, “I
know he’s a liar but I like what he says.”
But
hey there’s a game on tonight! Or as President Obama’s body
double Alfred E. Newman has been known to say, “What me, worry?”
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