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Darrell Issa: Emails suggest Elijah Cummings prompted IRS targeting[W:130, 252, 358 ]

Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

Yes, something did happen. The IRS, in a ham-fisted way of sorting through the deluge of applications for 501(c)(4) status, used certain keywords to filter organizations for extra scrutiny to make sure they weren't attempting to skirt tax law.

Yet, the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a fake charity run by little barry's half-brother in Africa, get approved for US tax exempt status in 30 days. AND that approval was made retroactive back for three years.
This was done with lerner's approval.
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

Yet, the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a fake charity run by little barry's half-brother in Africa, get approved for US tax exempt status in 30 days. AND that approval was made retroactive back for three years.
This was done with lerner's approval.

They were 501(c)(3), not 501 (c)(4).
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

wrong and not even close...we see the personal touch of the Libs to target...the evidence is there... your heros are criminals

your posts are nothing but lib hot air..

This is not an argument.
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

They were 501(c)(3), not 501 (c)(4).

Well, that makes it all better. NOT!

30 day approval is unprecedented. And making it retroactive for three years is unheard of.
Good thing lerner is vying for a spot in obama's OFA scam.
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

What does the fifth mean to you--guilty if Democrat--not guilty and my constitutional right if Repub?
She plead the 5th. It's on record.
Would you like a video?
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

Yes, something did happen. The IRS, in a ham-fisted way of sorting through the deluge of applications for 501(c)(4) status, used certain keywords to filter organizations for extra scrutiny to make sure they weren't attempting to skirt tax law.

Does seem to be a disproportionate in count and in their treatment. Previously, (wasn't it testimony?) that there were at least some progressive groups also held under scrutiny? And now IRS agents testify that there were none. So what does that make the previous testimony? Perjury?

No it doesn't.
Even that hasn't been proven.
They have wasted tens of millions of dollars.
It doesn't matter with a do-nothing GOP House, which has nothing to do.
Time for Easter recess tomorrow .

Meh. Not like this administration has a problem spending tens of millions of dollars cavorting the family all across the world, in excessively costly manner. Of course all presidents do that on occasion, but seems like this administration has been especially costly in that regard. But hey, in the middle of a financial collapse? A recession? Not very in-tune with what the electorate had / has to go through.

Whatever. This'll either play out into something, or it won't. Either the Republicans will actually prove something criminal or not. Either the Democrats will have stalled and stonewalled enough that the clock ran out or not.
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

Prove it wrong.
Meanwhile. lerner pleads the 5th because she has done something that will land her in jail.
This is undeniable.

what is also undeniable is that no american was successfully prosicuted for invoking their fifth ammendment rights before congress.
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

Well, that makes it all better. NOT!

30 day approval is unprecedented. And making it retroactive for three years is unheard of.
Good thing lerner is vying for a spot in obama's OFA scam.

seems like Obamas uncle got his through in record time.. shocking ( not )
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

So you are calling Kobie's heros criminals.
Do you have any idea which forum you are posting in?
You're accusing folks of lib hot air.
Do you have anything more on this ISSA affair, wasting tens of millions of needed dollars to his own CD?
wrong and not even close...we see the personal touch of the Libs to target...the evidence is there... your heros are criminals

your posts are nothing but lib hot air..
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

What does the fifth mean to you--guilty if Democrat--not guilty and my constitutional right if Repub?

It means she is refusing to testify against herself. Not against anyone else. That's not that the 5th is for.
She wouldn't need to invoke the 5th if she didn't do anything illegal. After all:

 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

So you are calling Kobie's heros criminals.
Do you have any idea which forum you are posting in?
You're accusing folks of lib hot air.
Do you have anything more on this ISSA affair, wasting tens of millions of needed dollars to his own CD?

Uh uh... Im well aware.. are you?
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

what is also undeniable is that no american was successfully prosicuted for invoking their fifth ammendment rights before congress.

That's right. But, she's not being charged with invoking the 5th, is she?
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

What does Obama's uncle have to do with this thread you started on Darrel I$$$A, travis?
Did you know issa has to get his info from Boehner's office, since I$$$A is a "leaker"?
Where's the outrage over I$$$A being a leaker of confidential info ?
seems like Obamas uncle got his through in record time.. shocking ( not )
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

That's right. But, she's not being charged with invoking the 5th, is she?

correct, she is being charged with contempt. and the the historical track record for achieving a conviction after the accused pleads the fifth is not good.
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

What does Obama's uncle have to do with this thread you started on Darrel I$$$A, travis?
Did you know issa has to get his info from Boehner's office, since I$$$A is a "leaker"?
Where's the outrage over I$$$A being a leaker of confidential info ?

Obamas uncles non profit was granted in record time.. Im sure you are facile on that...
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

Does seem to be a disproportionate in count and in their treatment. Previously, (wasn't it testimony?) that there were at least some progressive groups also held under scrutiny? And now IRS agents testify that there were none. So what does that make the previous testimony? Perjury?
The obvious conclusion is that more right-wing political groups were committing felonious fraud,
trying to cheat the Taxpayers AND get undue influence in elections, a two-fer.

It's a right-wing thing we have going on here in the USA.
Act like you're a Catholic charities group and get the SAME non-profit status .
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

Don't think the ending for this has been written yet.

BOMBSHELL: IRS Gave Democrats Tax Info on Their Enemies

So Democrat friends in the IRS helping Democrat friends on the campaign trail and on the hill. Sheds a new light on the narrow Obama win, in spite all these unfair advantages.

The PJ Tatler » Bombshell: Emails Show Democrat on Oversight Committee was Working With Lois Lerner to Target True the Vote (Update: Engelbrecht Reacts)

Shouldn't committee members in an oversight role be a bit more impartial than this? Shouldn't the IRS be keeping people's private information private rather than distributing to their friends?

This stinks. Stinks to high heaven.
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

Kochs' PACs should be too right, since they're non-profit
Obamas uncles non profit was granted in record time.. Im sure you are facile on that...
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

Kochs' PACs should be too right, since they're non-profit

facepalm
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

Eh, Issa is scum of the earth, an ambitious asshole who is corrupt to the core, and would kill his own grandmother with a corkscrew if it put him in the Oval Office. Nothing he says has credibility. Nothing.
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

The obvious conclusion is that more right-wing political groups were committing felonious fraud,
trying to cheat the Taxpayers AND get undue influence in elections, a two-fer.

It's a right-wing thing we have going on here in the USA.
Act like you're a Catholic charities group and get the SAME non-profit status .
No. The obvious conclusion is that obama used the IRS to harass and intimidate those that are a threat to him.
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

The obvious conclusion is that more right-wing political groups were committing felonious fraud,
trying to cheat the Taxpayers AND get undue influence in elections, a two-fer.

Yeah, you could interprit it that way. Any proof that this position has a foundation?

Just the same way that you could interpret it in the other way as well.

It's a right-wing thing we have going on here in the USA.
Act like you're a Catholic charities group and get the SAME non-profit status .

Hardly. So, who spends the most on campaigns? The right or the left?
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

Eh, Issa is scum of the earth, an ambitious asshole who is corrupt to the core, and would kill his own grandmother with a corkscrew if it put him in the Oval Office. Nothing he says has credibility. Nothing.
Replace Issa with obama and corkscrew with pillow and your dead on.
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

Meh. Not like this administration has a problem spending tens of millions of dollars cavorting the family all across the world, in excessively costly manner. Of course all presidents do that on occasion, but seems like this administration has been especially costly in that regard. But hey, in the middle of a financial collapse? A recession? Not very in-tune with what the electorate had / has to go through.
GOP election talking point--all we're getting now even from normals.

Whatever. This'll either play out into something, or it won't. Either the Republicans will actually prove something criminal or not. Either the Democrats will have stalled and stonewalled enough that the clock ran out or not.

GOPs trying to keep hope alive versus serious governing .
 
Re: Issa uncovers the smoking gun int he IRS targeting of conservatives

correct, she is being charged with contempt. and the the historical track record for achieving a conviction after the accused pleads the fifth is not good.

But, she made a speech before pleading the 5th. That is not allowed.
Had she just plead the 5th off the bat, she'd be in the clear, so to speak. But, she didn't. So, she isn't.
 
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