Monday, October 27, 2014
The IRS Scandal, Day 536
The Atlantic: The House GOP's New War on Incompetence: The Republicans Want to Overhaul Scandal-Plagued Federal Agencies in 2015, the Majority Leader Says:
House Republicans haven't officially locked down their majority for next year, but they're already sketching out a legislative agenda for when they do.
In a memo to lawmakers on Wednesday, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the party would target the federal bureaucracy with an eye toward restoring "competence" across a range of scandal-plagued departments and agencies. He cited the well-documented problems at the Veterans Administration, the Secret Service, the IRS, last year's launch of the federal health insurance exchanges, and the more recent response to Ebola, along with several other missteps that haven't garnered as much attention.
Real Time with Bill Maher Blog: Tax the Charities:
Obama’s IRS "scandal” comes down to whether Tea Party groups should pay taxes or not, and the angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin distinction between an organization that raises money for politicians and one that “promotes social welfare.” (… by raising money for politicians.) One has to pay taxes and one doesn’t. ...
The simple solution is to stop asking the IRS to make value judgments about what’s a legitimate charity called “Patriots for the Violent Overthrow of the Negro Usurper” and what’s just a family sex party, like the kind the Palins would crash. Make them all pay taxes.
- Mediaite: Bill Maher: Adrian Peterson Orgy ‘Reminds Me of the Tea Party’
- Raw Story: Bill Maher’s Solution to Tea Party IRS Complaints: Tax Charities
Washington Post: Obama, The Bewildered Bystander, by Charles Krauthammer:
The president is upset. Very upset. Frustrated and angry. Seething about the government's handling of Ebola, said the front-page headline in The New York Times last Saturday.
There's only one problem with this pose, so obligingly transcribed for him by the Times. It's his government. He's president. Has been for six years. Yet Barack Obama reflexively insists on playing the shocked outsider when something goes wrong within his own administration.
IRS? “It's inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it,” he thundered in May 2013 when the story broke of the agency targeting conservative groups. “I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the IRS.”
Except that within nine months, Obama had grown far more tolerant, retroactively declaring this to be a phony scandal without “a smidgen of corruption.”
- The IRS Scandal, Day 535 (Oct. 26, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 534 (Oct. 25, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 533 (Oct. 24, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 532 (Oct. 23, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 531 (Oct. 22, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 530 (Oct. 21, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 529 (Oct. 20, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 528 (Oct. 19, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 527 (Oct. 18, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 526 (Oct. 17, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 525 (Oct. 16, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 524 (Oct. 15, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 523 (Oct. 14, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 522 (Oct. 13, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 521 (Oct. 12, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 520 (Oct. 11, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 519 (Oct. 10, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 518 (Oct. 9, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 517 (Oct. 8, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 516 (Oct. 7, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 515 (Oct. 6, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 514 (Oct. 5, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 513 (Oct. 4, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 512 (Oct. 3, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 511 (Oct. 2, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 510 (Oct. 1, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 509 (Sept. 30, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 508 (Sept. 29, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 507 (Sept. 28, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 506 (Sept. 27, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 505 (Sept. 26, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 504 (Sept. 25, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 503 (Sept. 24, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 502 (Sept. 23, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 501 (Sept. 22, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 401-500 (June 14, 2014 - Sept. 21,2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 301-400 (Mar. 6, 2014 - June 13, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 201-300 (Nov. 26, 2013 - Mar. 5, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 101-200 (Aug. 18, 2013 - Nov. 25, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 1-100 (May 10, 2013 - Aug. 17, 2013)
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