It’s a happy day in Rightie World. It has been determined that the part of the IRS that oversees and approves tax-exempt status was putting right-wing groups under heavier scrutiny than normal. This has given the Right plenty of cause to whine and wallow in self-pity, which of course is what they live for.
This was not good on the part of the IRS of course. But I’ve slogged through a couple of articles and cannot determine if any organization was actually harmed or even somewhat inconvenienced. Even so, this will be all we hear about for the next several weeks. Well, this and Benghazi.
speaking of which, Kevin Drum observes,
… the real giveaway about this whole thing is that it keeps changing whenever it’s debunked. Originally, the story retailed by Charles Woods, the father of Benghazi victim Tyrone Woods, revolved around the notion that Obama had a live video feed of Benghazi and refused to let a fast-response team deploy even though he knew they could get there in time. That wasn’t true, so another story developed that General Carter Ham was ready to send in a team, received an order to stand down, and was going to disobey orders and send them in anyway. But then his second in command apprehended him and told him that he was now relieved of duty. That wasn’t true either. So then we got a story about a team in Tripoli that Obama refused to deploy. Then a story about a C-110 team in Croatia that could have gone in but wasn’t allowed to. And finally, last week, a different story about a different team in Tripoli that could have gone in the next morning but didn’t.
And when that last story turns out not to be true, they’ll think up another one.
Encouragingly, Public Policy Polling finds that voters trust former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Benghazi over the GOP, by a 49/39 margin.
Samuel L. Jackson and The Avengers were parked right over Benghazi in their airborne fortress thingy, but Obama refused to let them deploy because he suspects Michelle has been carrying on with The Incredible Hulk.
Darrell Issa angry! Darrell Issa smash!
Or: “You and I remember Benghazi very differently.” (Jeremy Renner to Scarlett Johanssen, paraphrasing my favorite line in the movie. Which is not a documentary, OK Darrell?)
I wonder how Newt Gingrich and the lovely lady fared in the dragnet? Their little empire of deceit probably has more patriotic themed business names registered then any one of them out there.
Yea, and Rand Paul called Hillary unfit for higher office today. This from someone wallowing in the lower percentiles of the “dumber than a brick” party.
The IRS was doing its job, which is to look for tax evasion/fraud.
If they deliberately targeted Conservative groups, and eliminated Liberal ones, then, that’s a problem.
If there was more targeting because Conservatives have more, or a lot more, of these groups, then it’s nothing but a numbers game.
The President said the right things today, imo.
As for Benghazi! Benghazi!! Benghazi!!! – the reason they’re banging this thing to death – is that Benghazi’s a “Two-fer!”
The Republicans get to smear the KenyanSocialistFascistCommunistHeathenMuslim Usurper, and that lesbian who killed her male lover, Hillary Clinton – who, if she decides to run in 2016, could very well win in a minor landslide.
And, even if Susan Rice was spreading Bushsh*t talking-points that every Obama administration official knew weren’t true on the “If it’s Sunday, it’s time to “Meet The Republicans'” bloviation festivals, it could hardly be a crime, or else Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, Colin Powell, John Bolton, and other assorted members of the Cheney-Bush Cabal of War Criminals, would have been made an example of, over the past decade, or so.
This is a nothing-burger.
They’re trying to keep super-sizing it, in hopes that something, anything, sticks to the POTUS, and the former FLOTUS.
And, unless we’re prepared to have Apache helicopters hovering nearby every time some Ambassador somewhere goes on a visit to a consulate somewhere else, like s/he was a Republican Senator or Congresscritter visiting Baghdad, Iraq back in the 00’s, then we need to understand that while what happened in Benghazi was a tragedy – maybe even an avoidable one, if the Congress hadn’t cut the security budgets for our Embassies – and work on making sure that it never happens again, instead of saying it was worse than “The Teapot Dome Scandal,” Watergate, Iran-Contra, and “The BJ Heard ‘Round the World,” times… oh, I don’t know… TEN!!!
Oh, and you gotta love that the previous scandals the Republicans compare Benghazi to, took place under Republican Presidents.
ROFLMAO!!!
All I’m really getting from this is precisely how terrified the GOP is of Hillary. I mean, those big white crackaboys are just pants-wetting scared. If’n weez don’t stop her, sheez gonna be our nex preznit! It’s actually funny when you think about it. Except for the gross waste of tax dollars, especially during the sequester.
As for the IRS thing: For shame! How dare they send letters like that! I mean, why would anyone think a bunch of rabidly anti-government dipsticks would cheat on their taxes? *cough*
It’s damn funny, but nothing scares me more than reading the snickers of fellow leftists just like I did during both the campaign of GWB and the impeachment of our president.
Is it possible to have too much fun? I suspect the IRS knows the answer.
Man, it’s just hard for me to imagine why the Infernal Revenue Service would waste time investigating anti government / anti tax non profit organizations.
I for one plan to continue snickering, and here’s why:
The IRS commissioner during the probe was Donald Shulman, a holdover from the Bush administration. He left his job last November. There’s an acting commissioner right now, but he assumed his acting role well after the Cincinnati probe ended. The position of IRS commissioner is vacant.
See post above.