Tea Party groups, Republicans slam IRS for flagging conservative groups

C'mon bub, that just isn't what happened.

Hey, if I was being singled out by the IRS I'd want to bomb the Boston Marathon too.

Why did the IRS release 501c4 applications to ProPublica, an investigate reporting organization that enjoys 501c3 status?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...al-info-on-conservative-groups-to-propublica/

If it was a republican in the WH and the IRS was targeting liberal organisations, would he and other liberals be singing the same tune?

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Fuck, this is an Administration that has been rigging elections & overthrowing governments with no outcry. This won't go anywhere.

It is because you make outlandish claims like this that people won't listen to you if you ever find something real.

Now this could be an actual issue worth investigating. The other thing, not so much.

Right, because it's not like we expect government agencies to operate impartially. The IRS targeted conservatives and libertarians for a fuck ton of hassle nobody else was subject to? No big whoop!

Easy there fellow! You might have an actual issue here, don't fuck it up by continuing to cry about the fake one.

It's beginning to look like this is much ado about nothing (shocking), as it appears that liberal groups were also investigated.

I can't wait until the political pendulum swings the other wa, and it will. We have now granted the party in power the ability to directed targeted attacks on political foes through the IRS. Just so the liberals know to STFU when the tables get turned on them. So sick of this liberal one sides bullshit.

I am shocked, simply shocked.

Oh wait, I'm not.

More sauce for the goose...

Perhaps the Tea PArty groups should have had Obama's name in their title.......

Chad give gul his log in details back, you mischievous scamp!

The IRS wants to know everything about your Tea Party group. It also wants to know what your thinking and what you will be doing in the future.........

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/the-irs-wants-you-to-share-everything-91378.html

The IRS wants names of everyone......

Gee I wonder why........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ist-high-school-college-students-trained.html

Funny how Gul and Chad seem to think this is a joke.......

They can always fall back on posting parody pictures of Glen Beck or Ron Paul. It's not like this was anything more than a fist pump for the blue team until it started getting out of control.

Now John Boehner wants jail time for the people involved.

Clever... if people go to jail, it makes it that much more likely that IRS employees in the future will be too scared to look deeply into any conservative 501(4)c, even if there's reason to.

On the other hand, it means they'll be too scared to pull shit like this again when there isn't any reason to. And that's as it should be.

^^ Right, because prosecutions and excoriation abounds for civil servants who have lawfully and faithfully executed their duties. Oh, wait.

Meanwhile, in the Real World...

President Obama on Wednesday demanded and accepted the resignation of the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven T. Miller...

Sux to be a TightyRighty.

Nixon was run out of office over FAR less than this.

Re: Meanwhile, in the Real World...

You mean the dude whose assignment to that post was already scheduled to end in June anyway?

You're a bit off your nut over this, aren'tcha?

Yes but you know how liberals are. They will defend Obama until things become so overwhelming that they fear losing dozens of House and Senate seats.

So pretty much barring a major felony being exposed and it being tied directly to Obama's neck nothing will happen to him.

Now the people below him...... A lot of them may be fucked.

And they will get hit in the 2014 mid-terms. Don't let ConfederateMoron tell you otherwise.

Resigned over much ado about nothing?

Re: Meanwhile, in the Real World...

Yeah seriously.....

They really must think people are fucking stupid. It can be the only explanation for them to pull this stunt.

Let us review........

#1 Steven Miller became the agency's acting commissioner in November of 2012.

#2 Steven Miller's term ends in June of 2013. This is already two years into the political targeting of various "right wing" groups. Not saying he doesn't have anything to do with it but that it was going long before he got there.

#3 Today is May 16, 2013.

#4 Steven Miller has told the people in the IRS that he's leaving in June when his term as acting commissioner ends.

#5 The President said Steven Miller has resigned at his request. Usually when someone resigns at the request of the President that means they leave the job the same damn day. Because resigning at the request of the President is just a fancy way of saying, "you're fired!"

#6 According to various news sources Steven Miller isn't leaving until his term ends. IN JUNE.

So in essence this is the biggest bullshit "I demanded this guy resign" moment in White House history.

And of course the dummies like Garamet fell for it........

If they're overwhelmed by phantom increases, imagine how we'll the IRS will handle their increased responsibilities from the new healthcare laws.