The fix is in:
Unlike Chris Christie’s Bridgegate, which hardly anyone cares about, a majority of the American people have consistently believed that the IRS targeting was deliberate and political. Obama himself said it “outraged” him, before he fake-fired the interim IRS chief and put the fix in place by appointing one of his own political contributors, Barbara Bosserman, to “investigate” it. Now his political contributor says “Nothing to see here, move along.” His Treasury secretary, Jack Lew, calls the abuse a “fake scandal.” So much for the president’s alleged outrage.
Across all these revelations, just 10 of the 41 groups that the American Center for Law and Justice is representing in the IRS abuse case have even been contacted by the FBI. Just 10. Ever.
That’s not an investigation, but it was never intended to be an investigation. The fix was always in on this thing.
I don’t think that Issa is going to let this go.
Banana republics are what banana republics do. Laws are for the little people.
That was the quickest investigation ever. What a crock of sh**.
Why should anyone other than Dems pay the fundraising arm of the Dem party on April 15th?
I don’t think that Issa is going to let this go.
He hasn’t let go of Fast & Furious, but he also hasn’t found anything. It takes more than persistence to nail a president with a major scandal — there actually has to be a scandal to uncover.
Reminder: there are three elements of a major political scandal: 1) Significant (preferably criminal) wrongdoing, 2) An illegitimate motive (e.g. political or financial gain), and 3) Direct involvement by the president or at least a top aide.
Watergate is the gold standard: 1) A long list of crimes, 2) committed for political gain or to cover up other crimes, 3) with the worst single crime (ordering the CIA to obstruct an FBI investigation) committed personally by the president himself.
The IRS scandal has wrongdoing (the Cincinnati IRS office using politically slanted keywords), but so far no direct evidence of a political motive (indeed, evidence that there was no political motive) or involvement by anyone close to the president.
“Reminder: there are three elements of a major political scandal: 1) Significant (preferably criminal) wrongdoing, 2) An illegitimate motive (e.g. political or financial gain), and 3) Direct involvement by the president or at least a top aide.”
The Obama administration using the IRS to persecute political dissidents fits all of those criteria.
” 3) with the worst single crime (ordering the CIA to obstruct an FBI investigation) committed personally by the president himself.”
Holder, who was found in contempt of congress for obstructing an investigation, did not investigate the IRS matter for 8 months. After 8 months, Holder appointed an Obama crony and two days later said there was nothing going on. And we can totally trust the Obama administration. Nothing fishy here to report to flag@whitehouse.gov everything is on the up and up.
“The IRS scandal has wrongdoing (the Cincinnati IRS office using politically slanted keywords),”
And forwarding groups that ran afoul of the politically generated keywords to offices in DC.
“but so far no direct evidence of a political motive ”
Just plenty of indirect evidence. Using Democrat party standards for racism being the cause of disproportionate discipline of minority high school students, we must conclude that the Obama administration is guilty based on the disproportionate effects of IRS policies instituted by the administration on conservative groups. If the IRS was being apolitical, then Obama’s own campaign organization turned non-profit permanent political campaign would have faced the same scrutiny by OSHA, FBI, EPA, and IRS as Tea Party groups.
Lets do a FOIA and see how OFA responded to the question, “What is the content of your prayers?”