Monday, November 9, 2015
The IRS Scandal, Day 914
Washington Post — The Volokh Conspiracy: Obama Administration Lawlessness: The Top Five, by David Bernstein (George Mason):
The most frequent question I get about my book Lawless: The Obama Administration’s Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law is what I think are the administration’s most egregiously lawless actions. So here is my somewhat subjective list. ...
4. Failing to prosecute anyone at the IRS for the 501(c)(4) scandal. That the IRS put its massive bureaucratic thumb on the scales against conservative activist groups is one of the great political scandals in recent U.S. history. When the news first broke, President Obama properly declared that he “will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives.” But tolerate it his administration did.
- The IRS Scandal, Day 913 (Nov. 8, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 912 (Nov. 7, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 911 (Nov. 6, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 910 (Nov. 5, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 909 (Nov. 4, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 908 (Nov. 3, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 907 (Nov. 2, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 906 (Nov. 1, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 905 (Oct. 31, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 904 (Oct. 30, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 903 (Oct. 29, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 902 (Oct. 28, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 901 (Oct. 27, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 801-900 (July 19, 2015 - Oct. 26, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 701-800 (April 10, 2015 - July 18, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 601-700 (Dec. 31, 2014 - April 9, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 501-600 (Sept. 22, 2014-Dec. 30, 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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Comments
I don't doubt for a moment that there was a close cooperation between the enforcers at IRS and the Obama White House. I would bet that the President himself knew what was going down and so did his aides who implemented the decision. Can't prove it, but I know it in my gut. It's the way people like Nixon and Obama work. Difference is, Nixon couldn't pull it off because as his aide Jack Caufield told him "they are all Democrats at that agency". Nixon thought he was as powerful as FDR who regularly used the IRS against his political enemies...he wasn't.
Posted by: VoteOutIncumbents | Nov 9, 2015 1:20:19 PM
Actually, Mr. VoteOut, my sources tell me (and I will never reveal who they are) the progressives inside our federal bureaucracies are home grown. They don't need marching orders from the top. They are all too eager to join the progressive insurgency on their own. All they needed was the freedom to come out of the closet.
Don't forget Ms. Learner came from the elections commissions where she hated republicans.
The bad news is it will take a lot more than electing a conservative president to root these rascals out. I'm afraid our only option is to starve them to death by cutting the federal budget again and again and again.
Posted by: Dale Spradling | Nov 10, 2015 6:48:01 AM