A Banana Republic, If You Can Keep It
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
The IRS has released a list of nearly 500 conservative groups it targeted for extra scrutiny to delay their fundraising abilities and thereby allow Democrats to outraise, outspend and out-advertise their way to winning the election.
I’m so old that I can remember the President of the United States insisted there was not even a smidgen of corruption at the IRS.
With this new information, I guess the President will be outraged to learn he was misled, heads will roll, people will be fired and prosecuted. Hell, the President might even step down out of sheer embarrassment, knowing that his party intentionally violated the civil rights of millions of Americans for the benefit of Democrats in Congress.
Joe Doakes
Ya gotta have faith.
June 29th, 2016 at 5:44 am
What was really nasty about that comment about there not being a smidgeon of corruption at the IRS was that Obama wasn’t supposed to know the details of the investigation. Under those circumstances, it is hard to view his statement as anything but instructions to the JD lawyers that they were not to find a smidgeon of corruption at the IRS. Also, note that Obama did not say that Conservative groups were not singled out for extra scrutiny, or that their applications were not delayed.
June 29th, 2016 at 5:56 am
poor Richard Nixon, if only he’d had Obama’s knack for appointing people with a discernible lack of integrity.
June 29th, 2016 at 8:38 am
It is worse than that. Read latest news on Lerner.
June 29th, 2016 at 9:35 am
What is it now with Lerner? Maybe i’m dense here, but I thought she’d ridden into the sunset and stonewalling FOIA requests had kept her out of the papers.
Bento, good point. Dear Leader certainly does have a nasty habit of interfering with investigations, doesn’t he?
June 29th, 2016 at 11:09 pm
What is it now with Lerner?
It is likely the largest unauthorized disclosure of tax-return information in history: the transfer of some 1.25 million pages of confidential tax returns from the IRS to the Department of Justice in October of 2010. And it was almost certainly illegal. […] What we know now, thanks to additional documents unearthed in years-long litigation by the good-government group Cause of Action, is that Lerner almost certainly broke the law when she transferred the documents.