Par For The Course

IRS internal investigation ended 6 months before ’12 election, was hidden from Congress…

They had to put it on the shelf, they had done enough damage to the Tea Party as it were…

 

IRS tea-party Bloodbath Continues in Congress, as Evidence Emerges That IRS’s Own Internal Probe Ended in May 2012, Six Months Before Election, But Was Hidden From Congress

Tempers flared in a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing Wednesday, with members on both sides of the aisle castigating the Internal Revenue Service for targeting conservative groups with special scrutiny, and then hiding the practice from Congress.

Rep. Darrel Issa, the committee’s chairman, said that the committee learned just yesterday that the IRS completed its own investigation a year before a Treasury Department Inspector General report was completed.

But despite the IRS recognizing in May 2012 that its employees were treating right-wing groups differently from other organizations, Issa said, IRS personnel withheld those conclusions from legislators.

 

Hold It

COVERUP: Report: IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election. “[I]f this fact came out in September 2012, in the middle of a presidential election? The terrain would have looked very different.”

IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election

The IRS commissioner “has known for at least a year that this was going on,” said Myers, “and that this had happened. And did he share any of that information with the White House? But even more importantly, Congress is going to ask him, why did you mislead us for an entire year? Members of Congress were saying conservatives are being targeted. What’s going on here? The IRS denied it. Then when — after these officials are briefed by the IG that this is going on, they don’t disclose it. In fact, the commissioner sent a letter to Congress in September on this subject and did not reveal this. Imagine if we — if you can — what would have happened if this fact came out in September 2012, in the middle of a presidential election? The terrain would have looked very different.”

 

Gun Control Fizzle

POLL: Only 33% want Congress to take up gun control again.

 

As If You Didn’t Know: IRS HID PROBE UNTIL AFTER ELECTION

It was all about the 2012 election.

Report: IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election … The question that had Lois Lerner admission, it was planted. So were they trying to distract from Benghazi. The Benghazi must be covered up. The truth must be hidden. What would Americans think if it were known Obama was running arms to Al Qaeda through Turkey.

When NIXON put out his edited transcripts it read a lot like Nixon did, and then the tape came out.

Not one reference to the alleged video … Here is the Benghazi email PDF

The weekly Standard writes …

NBC’s Lisa Myers reported this morning that the IRS deliberately chose not to reveal that it had wrongly targeted conservative groups until after the 2012 presidential election:

The IRS commissioner “has known for at least a year that this was going on,” said Myers, “and that this had happened. And did he share any of that information with the White House? But even more importantly, Congress is going to ask him, why did you mislead us for an entire year? Members of Congress were saying conservatives are being targeted. What’s going on here? The IRS denied it. Then when — after these officials are briefed by the IG that this is going on, they don’t disclose it. In fact, the commissioner sent a letter to Congress in September on this subject and did not reveal this. Imagine if we — if you can — what would have happened if this fact came out in September 2012, in the middle of a presidential election? The terrain would have looked very different.”

FLASHBACK: IRS Commissioner Shulman Tells Congress IRS Is Not Targeting Conservatives

In 2012 IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman told Congress that the IRS was not targeting groups based on their political views.

Was he lying?

In 2012, conservative groups complained that the IRS was targeting them for audits. IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman told Congress that the IRS was not targeting groups based on their political views.

It wasn’t true…

Internal Revenue Service officials were involved in the targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups in Cincinnati, Washington DC and California offices.

The Washington Post reported:

Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved in the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear that the effort reached well beyond the branch in Cincinnati that was initially blamed, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

IRS officials at the agency’s Washington headquarters sent queries to conservative groups asking about their donors and other aspects of their operations, while officials in the El Monte and Laguna Niguel offices in California sent similar questionnaires to tea-party-affiliated groups, the documents show.

IRS employees in Cincinnati told conservatives seeking the status of “social welfare” groups that a task force in Washington was overseeing their applications, according to interviews with the activists.

Lois G. Lerner, who oversees tax-exempt groups for the IRS, told reporters Friday that the “absolutely inappropriate” actions were undertaken by “front-line people” working in Cincinnati to target groups with “tea party,” “patriot” or “9/12” in their names.

In one instance, however, Ron Bell, an IRS employee, informed a lawyer representing a conservative group focused on voter fraud that the application was under review in Washington. On several other occasions, IRS officials in Washington and California sent conservative groups detailed questionnaires about their voter outreach and other activities, according to the documents.

Under Obama, the IRS audits of tax-exempt organizations have skyrocketed 79%.

WHISTLEBLOWER: HILLARY’S STATE DEPT. TOLD ME NOT TO TALK TO CONGRESS

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) couldn’t believe what he was hearing: “So the people at State told you, ‘Don’t talk to the guy who is coming to investigate?’” Hicks’ answer: “Yes, sir.”

Jordan pressed: “You’ve had several congressional delegations come to various places you’ve been around the world. Has that ever happened, where lawyers get on the phone to you prior to a congressional delegate coming to investigate … Have you ever had anyone tell you, ‘Don’t talk with the people from Congress coming to find out what took place?”  Hicks: “Never.”

Hillary, deep doodooo ….

SICK: 42% UNAWARE OBAMACARE IS LAW

Fairness, you want fairness, you want equality, you got it.

SICK: 42% UNAWARE OBAMACARE IS LAW

“Four in ten Americans (42%) are unaware that the ACA [UN - Affordable Care Act] is still the law of the land,” the report says, “including 12 percent who believe the law has been repealed by Congress, 7 percent who believe it has been overturned by the Supreme Court and 23 percent who say they don’t know enough to say what the status of the law is.”

Talk about low information, this has to top the list.

Have fun. You are not going to be able to keep your doctor. Your premiums is going to go up. And it is looking like between 30-40 million people will not be able to afford it.

IT’S STARTING: Obamacare Tax Hike Train Wreck…

Support Nosedives…

Now only 35% support this unConstitutional progressive’s crap  law.

President predicts ‘glitches and bumps’…

More like screw ups galore — Yeah right, and you, the sick and the old will pay most.

And you will pay, as the world’s best healthcare ever, comes to a halt as we search for parity of the world’s turd world country’s … it’s only fair.

When you get sick or your family member gets sick, then you will pay.

ObamaCare Carve Out (exemption) For Thee Not For Me

Outrageous: Lawmakers negotiating Obamacare exemption for Congress.

You know when Congress passes laws for the little people, while exempting the elites, have caused unknown number of problems over time for the ruling class. The British were  famous for doing that, remember “The Stamp Act”?

 

Barack Obama Is Using Executive Powers to Push New Gun Control Rules — Fast And Furious, Major Fail.

Unable to push his gun control plans through Congress, Barack Obama is using his executive powers to strengthen background checks.

Registration always proceeds confiscation.

The Hill reported:

President Obama is quietly moving forward on gun control.

The president has used his executive powers to bolster the national background check system, jumpstart government research on the causes of gun violence and create a million-dollar ad campaign aimed at safe gun ownership.
The executive steps will give federal law enforcement officials access to more data about guns and their owners, help keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill, and lay the groundwork for future legislative efforts.

It is unclear whether the National Rifle Association will challenge any of the executive actions in court. A spokesman for the NRA did not return a request for comment.

The moves, which have not been widely touted by the administration, come as Obama ups his pressure on Congress to take action on gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. The Senate is expected to begin floor consideration of legislation when it returns in April.

Efforts to renew a ban in semi-automatic weapons with military-style features and high-capacity magazines have stalled in Congress. Democratic senators still hope to move gun control legislation that includes tougher background checks, but conservative Republican senators have threatened to filibuster it.

Yeah the Second Amendment is your Bill of Rights … Not his.

Low information voters, do you even know what “Bill of Rights” means? That’s the part of the Constitution that tells the Federal Government what they cannot do to you. It was a necessary part of the Constitutional ratification process. It was designed to protect the people from federal government tyranny. While you may not want to own a gun right now, the Second Amendment guarantees that if you want some day you can.

Remember the famous Ben Franklin quote –

”People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.”