IRS: Was Obama set up?

[S.J.]

You just proved how wrong Shroom was as it was obviously not leaked or a know-it-all like yourself would have heard of it!

Learn to use google or stay a no-information voter for the rest of your life.

In other words, you have no proof.

In other words, you are too lazy to do anything for yourself, including think. That is why you are a CON$ervative, you swallow everything they feed you without ever checking it for yourself, and they are more than willing to feed you bullshit knowing you prefer to be ignorant.

NAACP blames tax audit on criticism of Bush - Baltimore Sun

IRS Audited Greenpeace At Request of ExxonMobil-Funded Group | Democracy Now!

No sex, please ? or we?ll audit you - Salon.com

First of all, when you make a claim, YOU'RE supposed to back it up, not me. Second, your links provide no proof, only accusations. That's a far cry from the current scandal in which the IRS ADMITTED to targeting conservative organizations. Now, can you post some proof to back up your claim, or are baseless accusations all you can find?

 

[edthecynic]

In other words, you have no proof.

In other words, you are too lazy to do anything for yourself, including think. That is why you are a CON$ervative, you swallow everything they feed you without ever checking it for yourself, and they are more than willing to feed you bullshit knowing you prefer to be ignorant.

NAACP blames tax audit on criticism of Bush - Baltimore Sun

IRS Audited Greenpeace At Request of ExxonMobil-Funded Group | Democracy Now!

No sex, please ? or we?ll audit you - Salon.com

First of all, when you make a claim, YOU'RE supposed to back it up, not me. Second, your links provide no proof, only accusations. That's a far cry from the current scandal in which the IRS ADMITTED to targeting conservative organizations. Now, can you post some proof to back up your claim, or are baseless accusations all you can find?

You're such a damn liar. Every one of them were audited. You can deny it all you want, but the link gave proof, including who made the complaints, like ExxonMobile against Greenpeace, and 24 House Republicans led by Joseph Pitts R-Pa against Advocates For Youth. You obviously didn't bother to even read the links you demanded even after I did all the work for a lazy POS like you. No wonder you are a CON$ervoFascist.

 

[Agit8r]

The IRS began targeting conservative groups a couple of years ago. The Commissioner at the time was Douglas Shulman, a Bush appointee who conveniently resigned about 6 months ago.

The woman who runs the Exempt Organizations Division is Lois Lerner. She's already been caught lying to investigators about when she knew what. She was appointed to the position in 2005 by Mark W. Everson, another Bush appointee.

The Acting Commission of the IRS since Shulman resigned is Steven T. Miller, a career bureaucrat who was Deputy Commissioner under Shulman. He was the Director of Exempt Organizations before Lerner.

In other words, all the key players in this scandal at the IRS worked in the very department which is the center of the controversy and all but one were Republican appointees. Each should have known what was going on.

The story was first broken by Jay Sekulow, a far-right wing lawyer once connected with Pat Robertson's CBN who now runs the right wing American Center for Law and Justice. He's a frequent commentator on FOX and other conservative outlets. Robertson, you may recall, was one of the founding fathers of the Republican dominated Evangelical movement.

Conspiracy theory: Did the Republican appointees direct lower level employees to target right wing organizations on purpose, just to generate a "gotcha" moment for Barack Obama? Were those right wing organizations tipped to show Sekulow what the IRS was demanding of them? Is it coincidence that Shulman resigned just as Sekulow began to make noise about it? Has Miller been set up to take the fall?

Y'all like conspiracy theories. How about this one?

The good that may come out of this is that the sheeple out there will finally realize that FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON, political organizations whose sole purpose is to corrupt the democratic process are considered charities under the tax code. And if there be any common sense left in the populace, they will demand that this travesty be ended.

 

[S.J.]

In other words, you are too lazy to do anything for yourself, including think. That is why you are a CON$ervative, you swallow everything they feed you without ever checking it for yourself, and they are more than willing to feed you bullshit knowing you prefer to be ignorant.

NAACP blames tax audit on criticism of Bush - Baltimore Sun

IRS Audited Greenpeace At Request of ExxonMobil-Funded Group | Democracy Now!

No sex, please ? or we?ll audit you - Salon.com

First of all, when you make a claim, YOU'RE supposed to back it up, not me. Second, your links provide no proof, only accusations. That's a far cry from the current scandal in which the IRS ADMITTED to targeting conservative organizations. Now, can you post some proof to back up your claim, or are baseless accusations all you can find?

You're such a damn liar. Every one of them were audited. You can deny it all you want, but the link gave proof, including who made the complaints, like ExxonMobile against Greenpeace, and 24 House Republicans led by Joseph Pitts R-Pa against Advocates For Youth. You obviously didn't bother to even read the links you demanded even after I did all the work for a lazy POS like you. No wonder you are a CON$ervoFascist.

How many indictments were there?

 

[Stephanie]

I have never seen MORE excuses made for this man...

now he was SET UP..it must of been that "plotting" that rdean says was done against the poor little Obama from the FIRST day he become President

my gawd

 

[S.J.]

First of all, when you make a claim, YOU'RE supposed to back it up, not me. Second, your links provide no proof, only accusations. That's a far cry from the current scandal in which the IRS ADMITTED to targeting conservative organizations. Now, can you post some proof to back up your claim, or are baseless accusations all you can find?

You're such a damn liar. Every one of them were audited. You can deny it all you want, but the link gave proof, including who made the complaints, like ExxonMobile against Greenpeace, and 24 House Republicans led by Joseph Pitts R-Pa against Advocates For Youth. You obviously didn't bother to even read the links you demanded even after I did all the work for a lazy POS like you. No wonder you are a CON$ervoFascist.

How many indictments were there?

Hey Ed! Maybe you didn't hear me. How many indictments were there?

 

[S.J.]

I have never seen MORE excuses made for this man...

now he was SET UP..it must of been that "plotting" that rdean says was done against the poor little Obama from the FIRST day he become President

my gawd

Not the first day. 3 years before he was elected!

 

[WillowTree]

The IRS began targeting conservative groups a couple of years ago. The Commissioner at the time was Douglas Shulman, a Bush appointee who conveniently resigned about 6 months ago.

The woman who runs the Exempt Organizations Division is Lois Lerner. She's already been caught lying to investigators about when she knew what. She was appointed to the position in 2005 by Mark W. Everson, another Bush appointee.

The Acting Commission of the IRS since Shulman resigned is Steven T. Miller, a career bureaucrat who was Deputy Commissioner under Shulman. He was the Director of Exempt Organizations before Lerner.

In other words, all the key players in this scandal at the IRS worked in the very department which is the center of the controversy and all but one were Republican appointees. Each should have known what was going on.

The story was first broken by Jay Sekulow, a far-right wing lawyer once connected with Pat Robertson's CBN who now runs the right wing American Center for Law and Justice. He's a frequent commentator on FOX and other conservative outlets. Robertson, you may recall, was one of the founding fathers of the Republican dominated Evangelical movement.

Conspiracy theory: Did the Republican appointees direct lower level employees to target right wing organizations on purpose, just to generate a "gotcha" moment for Barack Obama? Were those right wing organizations tipped to show Sekulow what the IRS was demanding of them? Is it coincidence that Shulman resigned just as Sekulow began to make noise about it? Has Miller been set up to take the fall?

Y'all like conspiracy theories. How about this one?

 

[FA_Q2]

The IRS began targeting conservative groups a couple of years ago. The Commissioner at the time was Douglas Shulman, a Bush appointee who conveniently resigned about 6 months ago.

The woman who runs the Exempt Organizations Division is Lois Lerner. She's already been caught lying to investigators about when she knew what. She was appointed to the position in 2005 by Mark W. Everson, another Bush appointee.

The Acting Commission of the IRS since Shulman resigned is Steven T. Miller, a career bureaucrat who was Deputy Commissioner under Shulman. He was the Director of Exempt Organizations before Lerner.

In other words, all the key players in this scandal at the IRS worked in the very department which is the center of the controversy and all but one were Republican appointees. Each should have known what was going on.

The story was first broken by Jay Sekulow, a far-right wing lawyer once connected with Pat Robertson's CBN who now runs the right wing American Center for Law and Justice. He's a frequent commentator on FOX and other conservative outlets. Robertson, you may recall, was one of the founding fathers of the Republican dominated Evangelical movement.

Conspiracy theory: Did the Republican appointees direct lower level employees to target right wing organizations on purpose, just to generate a "gotcha" moment for Barack Obama? Were those right wing organizations tipped to show Sekulow what the IRS was demanding of them? Is it coincidence that Shulman resigned just as Sekulow began to make noise about it? Has Miller been set up to take the fall?

Y'all like conspiracy theories. How about this one?

Hackery. Like almost all conspiracy theories it requires a lot of hackery. This would require far to many people putting things into place without any knowledge of what was to come and then taking large risks for almost no gain whatsoever. That is rather silly.

At least those that think Obama is at the heart of this are really only relying on one person telling the head of the IRS that he is going to give his political opponents some resistance in 501c status. The other, more likely, scenario is that one of the lead IRS bureaucrats was over zelous and thought what he was doing was right and legal. Most things end up being people with chips on their shoulders and overzealous people that don’t understand there are limits to power.

 

[The Breeze]

The low information voters set him up, there's no way Obama is qulified to be the POTUS.

 

[editec]

The IRS began targeting conservative groups a couple of years ago. The Commissioner at the time was Douglas Shulman, a Bush appointee who conveniently resigned about 6 months ago.

The woman who runs the Exempt Organizations Division is Lois Lerner. She's already been caught lying to investigators about when she knew what. She was appointed to the position in 2005 by Mark W. Everson, another Bush appointee.

The Acting Commission of the IRS since Shulman resigned is Steven T. Miller, a career bureaucrat who was Deputy Commissioner under Shulman. He was the Director of Exempt Organizations before Lerner.

In other words, all the key players in this scandal at the IRS worked in the very department which is the center of the controversy and all but one were Republican appointees. Each should have known what was going on.

The story was first broken by Jay Sekulow, a far-right wing lawyer once connected with Pat Robertson's CBN who now runs the right wing American Center for Law and Justice. He's a frequent commentator on FOX and other conservative outlets. Robertson, you may recall, was one of the founding fathers of the Republican dominated Evangelical movement.

Conspiracy theory: Did the Republican appointees direct lower level employees to target right wing organizations on purpose, just to generate a "gotcha" moment for Barack Obama? Were those right wing organizations tipped to show Sekulow what the IRS was demanding of them? Is it coincidence that Shulman resigned just as Sekulow began to make noise about it? Has Miller been set up to take the fall?

Y'all like conspiracy theories. How about this one?

Interesting theory.

Plausible, I suppose.

POLITICAL Dirty tricksterism can be rather subtle.

 

[Sallow]

The IRS began targeting conservative groups a couple of years ago. The Commissioner at the time was Douglas Shulman, a Bush appointee who conveniently resigned about 6 months ago.

The woman who runs the Exempt Organizations Division is Lois Lerner. She's already been caught lying to investigators about when she knew what. She was appointed to the position in 2005 by Mark W. Everson, another Bush appointee.

The Acting Commission of the IRS since Shulman resigned is Steven T. Miller, a career bureaucrat who was Deputy Commissioner under Shulman. He was the Director of Exempt Organizations before Lerner.

In other words, all the key players in this scandal at the IRS worked in the very department which is the center of the controversy and all but one were Republican appointees. Each should have known what was going on.

The story was first broken by Jay Sekulow, a far-right wing lawyer once connected with Pat Robertson's CBN who now runs the right wing American Center for Law and Justice. He's a frequent commentator on FOX and other conservative outlets. Robertson, you may recall, was one of the founding fathers of the Republican dominated Evangelical movement.

Conspiracy theory: Did the Republican appointees direct lower level employees to target right wing organizations on purpose, just to generate a "gotcha" moment for Barack Obama? Were those right wing organizations tipped to show Sekulow what the IRS was demanding of them? Is it coincidence that Shulman resigned just as Sekulow began to make noise about it? Has Miller been set up to take the fall?

Y'all like conspiracy theories. How about this one?

There are a couple of real live issues here..that conservatives, of course, will never address in their quest to find something, anything to impeach Obama on.

First is that fact that the IRS is under resourced (Sound familiar?) and they use alot of short cuts to catch tax cheats. Yeah, they "profile".

Second, the law on the 501(C) are pretty loose and set up powerful conduits for cash to enter the political dialogue.

Both things need fixing.

Watch conservatives ignore them.

 

[Oldguy]

First of all, when you make a claim, YOU'RE supposed to back it up, not me. Second, your links provide no proof, only accusations. That's a far cry from the current scandal in which the IRS ADMITTED to targeting conservative organizations. Now, can you post some proof to back up your claim, or are baseless accusations all you can find?

You're such a damn liar. Every one of them were audited. You can deny it all you want, but the link gave proof, including who made the complaints, like ExxonMobile against Greenpeace, and 24 House Republicans led by Joseph Pitts R-Pa against Advocates For Youth. You obviously didn't bother to even read the links you demanded even after I did all the work for a lazy POS like you. No wonder you are a CON$ervoFascist.

How many indictments were there?

How many indictments have there been on this one?

 

[Sallow]

Libtards don't think Obama got setup. They're just desperately scapegoating. They're just mad t he cat's out of the bag,

"Scapegoating" what?

The FACT is that the people involved..were appointed by Bush.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

It never ends. BOOOOOOSH!


You ***** are retarded.

 

[Oldguy]

The IRS began targeting conservative groups a couple of years ago. The Commissioner at the time was Douglas Shulman, a Bush appointee who conveniently resigned about 6 months ago.

The woman who runs the Exempt Organizations Division is Lois Lerner. She's already been caught lying to investigators about when she knew what. She was appointed to the position in 2005 by Mark W. Everson, another Bush appointee.

The Acting Commission of the IRS since Shulman resigned is Steven T. Miller, a career bureaucrat who was Deputy Commissioner under Shulman. He was the Director of Exempt Organizations before Lerner.

In other words, all the key players in this scandal at the IRS worked in the very department which is the center of the controversy and all but one were Republican appointees. Each should have known what was going on.

The story was first broken by Jay Sekulow, a far-right wing lawyer once connected with Pat Robertson's CBN who now runs the right wing American Center for Law and Justice. He's a frequent commentator on FOX and other conservative outlets. Robertson, you may recall, was one of the founding fathers of the Republican dominated Evangelical movement.

Conspiracy theory: Did the Republican appointees direct lower level employees to target right wing organizations on purpose, just to generate a "gotcha" moment for Barack Obama? Were those right wing organizations tipped to show Sekulow what the IRS was demanding of them? Is it coincidence that Shulman resigned just as Sekulow began to make noise about it? Has Miller been set up to take the fall?

Y'all like conspiracy theories. How about this one?

Hackery. Like almost all conspiracy theories it requires a lot of hackery. This would require far to many people putting things into place without any knowledge of what was to come and then taking large risks for almost no gain whatsoever. That is rather silly.

At least those that think Obama is at the heart of this are really only relying on one person telling the head of the IRS that he is going to give his political opponents some resistance in 501c status. The other, more likely, scenario is that one of the lead IRS bureaucrats was over zelous and thought what he was doing was right and legal. Most things end up being people with chips on their shoulders and overzealous people that don’t understand there are limits to power.

It wouldn't require the participants to know in advance that Obama would be elected or for George Bush to order it. It could simply be a case of taking advantage of what happened to have been in place. And, given that the same people already had experience in doing it to leftist groups, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to believe it could have been done deliberately, would it?

I'm not saying this is what happened. I'm merely pointing out the possibility exists and, given the modern-day GOP's proclivity for secret operations going back to Richard Nixon, their ability to lie right in the faces of the American people (Reagan and Iran/Contra) and the machinations of Karl Rove et. al, it's not really any more farfetched than the current conspiracy theory that Obama knew all about it and ordered it done.

 

[ba1614]

LMFAO, there ain't nothing that Mr Bush isn't responsible for, and there's nothing that great obummer can do wrong.

Poor America.

 

[Sallow]

The IRS began targeting conservative groups a couple of years ago. The Commissioner at the time was Douglas Shulman, a Bush appointee who conveniently resigned about 6 months ago.

The woman who runs the Exempt Organizations Division is Lois Lerner. She's already been caught lying to investigators about when she knew what. She was appointed to the position in 2005 by Mark W. Everson, another Bush appointee.

The Acting Commission of the IRS since Shulman resigned is Steven T. Miller, a career bureaucrat who was Deputy Commissioner under Shulman. He was the Director of Exempt Organizations before Lerner.

In other words, all the key players in this scandal at the IRS worked in the very department which is the center of the controversy and all but one were Republican appointees. Each should have known what was going on.

The story was first broken by Jay Sekulow, a far-right wing lawyer once connected with Pat Robertson's CBN who now runs the right wing American Center for Law and Justice. He's a frequent commentator on FOX and other conservative outlets. Robertson, you may recall, was one of the founding fathers of the Republican dominated Evangelical movement.

Conspiracy theory: Did the Republican appointees direct lower level employees to target right wing organizations on purpose, just to generate a "gotcha" moment for Barack Obama? Were those right wing organizations tipped to show Sekulow what the IRS was demanding of them? Is it coincidence that Shulman resigned just as Sekulow began to make noise about it? Has Miller been set up to take the fall?

Y'all like conspiracy theories. How about this one?

Hackery. Like almost all conspiracy theories it requires a lot of hackery. This would require far to many people putting things into place without any knowledge of what was to come and then taking large risks for almost no gain whatsoever. That is rather silly.

At least those that think Obama is at the heart of this are really only relying on one person telling the head of the IRS that he is going to give his political opponents some resistance in 501c status. The other, more likely, scenario is that one of the lead IRS bureaucrats was over zelous and thought what he was doing was right and legal. Most things end up being people with chips on their shoulders and overzealous people that don’t understand there are limits to power.

It wouldn't require the participants to know in advance that Obama would be elected or for George Bush to order it. It could simply be a case of taking advantage of what happened to have been in place. And, given that the same people already had experience in doing it to leftist groups, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to believe it could have been done deliberately, would it?

I'm not saying this is what happened. I'm merely pointing out the possibility exists and, given the modern-day GOP's proclivity for secret operations going back to Richard Nixon, their ability to lie right in the faces of the American people (Reagan and Iran/Contra) and the machinations of Karl Rove et. al, it's not really any more farfetched than the current conspiracy theory that Obama knew all about it and ordered it done.

But Rove's offices were bugged!

Oh wait..

 

[TakeAStepBack]

Yes, democrats never lie. This must be a case of republicans taking advantage of a situation and setting Obama up. Seriously, the true hackery around here are the blind partisan hacks that can not get off the party plantation long enough to have an independent thought. Every single time some nefarious circumstance arises regarding Obama, the only thing supporters manage to do is blame Bush.

You're retarded.

 

[TemplarKormac]

I'm loving how Democrats here are trying to defend this behavior. A set up? Yeah, Obama, Hillary and Holder have set the Party up to fail.

Enjoy getting pasted in the IRS hearing this Friday.