Saturday, July 27, 2013
The IRS Scandal, Day 79
- Fox News: Are Media Buying Into ‘Phony Scandal’ Claim?
- National Law Journal: Why Should the Internal Revenue Service Be Beyond Reproach?
- National Review: Lawmakers Ask: What Happened to Employees Implicated in IRS Scandal?
- NewsBusters: Not News: IRS Has Only Provided 0.02% of Documents Requested by House
- NewsBusters: Politico Goes to Pot While Ignoring IRS Scandal Developments
- NewsMax: Rove: Obama Didn't Think Scandals Were Phony Earlier
- Wall Street Journal: Fire Power
- Washington Examiner: Obama Calling Scandals 'Phony' Creates Political Firestorm
- Washington Times: David Axelrod: Bigger Issues to Face Than IRS Scandal
- Brownsville Herald: Charred Chickens Left at IRS a Possible Curse: "IRS agents found an unwelcome surprise — and a possible witchcraft curse — on Friday when unknown individuals left a trio of charred, headless chickens outside the agency’s McAllen offices. ... The three chickens were each without a head and appeared to have been set on fire, their feathers not plucked from their bodies. ...The motive behind the animal abuse was unknown Friday — but it shares traits with a witch’s curse, a local expert said. The use of charred chickens points to a person using Santeria or Voodoo — types of witchcraft — to harm someone who works in that building, said Ana Davila, a self-described “medium” in the Mission area who says she performs white magic, having removed curses and spells for more than 11 years — though she was not called to the federal building on Friday. More than likely a person that was unhappy with an investigation or an audit sought to place a curse on an agent, Davila said."
Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:
- IRS Admits to Targeting Conservative Groups in 2012 Election (May 10, 2013)
- WaPo and WSJ Agree: IRS Targeting of Conservatives Is Appalling (May 11, 2013)
- Schmalbeck on the IRS 'Targeting' of Conservative Groups (May 12, 2013)
- The Deepening IRS Scandal (May 13, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 5 (May 14, 2013)
- Jon Stewart and Vic Fleischer on the IRS Scandal (May 14, 2013)
- Inspector General: Ineffective IRS Management Allowed Agents to Target Conservative Groups (May 14, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 6 (May 15, 2013)
- Ellen Aprill, The TIGTA Report on the IRS Scandal: Questions About the IRS and About the Report (May 15, 2013)
- Phillip Hackney, The TIGTA Report on the IRS Scandal: Be on the Lookout for False Partisan Witchunts (May 15, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 7 (May 16, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 8 (May 17, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 9 (May 18, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 10 (May 19, 2013)
- SNL on the IRS Scandal (May 19, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 11 (May 20, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal: Really?! (May 20, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 12 (May 21, 2013)
- Steven Colbert on the IRS Scandal (May 21, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 13 (May 22, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 14 (May 23, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 15 (May 24, 2013)
- Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert on the IRS Scandal (May 24, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 16 (May 25, 2013)
- Jason Jones on the IRS Scandal (May 25, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 17 (May 26, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 18 (May 27, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 19 (May 28, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 20 (May 29, 2013)
- The Impact of the IRS Scandal on Tax Reform (May 29, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 21 (May 30, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 22 (May 31, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 23 (June 1, 2013)
- 'Cupid Shuffle' Dance Training Video Adds to IRS Woes (June 1, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 24 (June 2, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 25 (June 3, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 26 (June 4, 2013)
- Jon Stewart on the IRS Scandal (June 4, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 27 (June 5, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 28 (June 6, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 29 (June 7, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 30 (June 8, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 31 (June 9, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 32 (June 10, 2013)
- The Complete IRS Video Collection (June 10, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 33 (June 11, 2013)
- The Problem Is Not Just IRS Lawyers; The Problem Is All Federal Government Lawyers (June 11, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 34 (June 12, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 35 (June 13, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 36 (June 14, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 37 (June 15, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 38 (June 16, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 39 (June 17, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 40 (June 18, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 41 (June 19, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 42 (June 20, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 43 (June 21, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 44 (June 22, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 45 (June 23, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 46 (June 24, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 47 (June 25, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 48 (June 26, 2013)
- TIGTA: IRS Credit Cards Used for Wine, Porn, $100 Lunches, $140 Dinners (June 26, 2013)
- House Report: IRS Deputy IT Director Steered $500 Million in Contracts to Pal (June 26, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 49 (June 27, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 50 (June 28, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 51 (June 29, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 52 (June 30, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 53 (July 1, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 54 (July 2, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 55 (July 3, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 56 (July 4, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 57 (July 5, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 58 (July 6, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 59 (July 7, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 60 (July 8, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 61 (July 9, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 62 (July 10, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 63 (July 11, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 64 (July 12, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 65 (July 13, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 66 (July 14, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 67 (July 15, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 68 (July 16, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 69 (July 17, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 70 (July 18, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 71 (July 19, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 72 (July 20, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 73 (July 21, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 74 (July 22, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 75 (July 23, 2013)
- A Cincinnati IRS Lawyer Speaks: We Are Democrats, But Nonpartisan Democrats (July 23, 2013)
- Attorney in Federal Agency General Counsel's Office: There Is 'No Innocent Explanation' for IRS Chief Counsel's Meeting With Obama (July 23, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 76 (July 24, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 77 (July 25, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 78 (July 26, 2013)
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/07/irs-scandal-.html
And then there is Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent today, who compares this to Senator Rubio's "complete gibberish" on Obamacare implementation:
>This reminds me a bit of Mitch McConnell’s recent speech on the IRS scandal, in which he said:
"Now we have an administration that’s desperately trying to prove that nobody at the top was involved in any of this stuff, even as they hope that the media loses interest in this scandal and moves on."
As Jonathan Chait noted at the time: “McConnell’s speech is an attempt to reframe the issue in a way that it can survive the utter absence of incriminating facts…Before Republicans were going to prove that Obama’s administration was involved. All of the evidence suggests it wasn’t. So now McConnell is framing the question as Obama trying to prove he wasn’t involved. Which, of course, he can’t.” Chait added this indicated that “the IRS scandal has entered its post-fact phase,” and that the IRS scandal has now become “a vague trope that conservatives use with other members of the tribe,” to “signal some dark beliefs they don’t need to back up.”<
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/07/26/government-shutdown-threats-wont-work-but-maybe-complete-gibberish-will/?hpid=z2
Sargent, of course is recycling an opinion linked here on Day 44. Should we call this Month 2 of the IRS Post-Fact Phase?
Posted by: Bob | Jul 27, 2013 9:07:43 AM