(Real Clear Politics/CNBC) This is possibly the worst possible outcome from the Obama Administration’s point of view, as the scandals unfold involving the Internal Revenue Service and Dept of Justice.
While the Inspector General said that he didn’t see evidence of criminality, IRS Official Lois Lerner says that she will assert her 5th Amendment privilege against self incrimination at Wednesday’s House Oversight Hearing.
Related: DoJ Seized Records of FOX News James Rosen’s Parents
Rally Against IRS Abuses Against Conservatives –Tea Party Patriots
Tea Party Patriots Santa Ana, California –Image Courtesy: Jon Matthews
(Gateway Pundit) Whoa! Armed DHS Thugs meet Tea Party protesters outside St. Louis IRS Rally today.
Related: California Tea Party Group Files Suit Against IRS –FOX News
Dept of Justice Investigated FOX News Reporter in 2009 Leak Probe
(Washington Post) The Obama Administration’s Dept of Justice, secretly tracked the movements of FOX News Reporter James Rosen’s comings and goings at the State Dept through his key cards, traced phone calls and searched his emails.
Flashback–Remember the Obama Administration’s War on FOX News
Democrats Then & Now
(The BlackSphere) Back in 1929 Republican Teddy Roosevelt invited Jessie Williams DePriest, an African-American Woman to a Tea Party for Congressional wives.
In fact, she was the first African-American Woman to be invited to a social event at the White House but even then, Democrats were upset at the Tea Party as most would not even shake the hand of Mrs Oscar DePriest, wife of African-American Congressman Oscar Stanton DePriest (R-Illinois) serving from 1929-1935
Shove this little bit of Republican history in the face of Loony Liberal Lefties the next time they claim that Republicans are racists.
Related: Sen Robert Byrd, D-W.Va KKK Member, Led his Local Chapter
(Washington Examiner) A story in the Washington Post late last week about the Internal Revenue Service, Cincinnati Service Disservice Center, which is tapped to do most of the auditing of 501(c)(4) applications of not for profit groups and organizations, clearly contradicted earlier reports that the IRS targeting of Conservative, Jewish and religious groups was the result of rogue agents.
The Washington Post story quoted an anonymous staffer in Cincinnati who said they only operate by directives from headquarters.
On Friday, outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller testified before the House Ways & Means Committee and claimed that targeting of Conservative groups is ‘absolutely not illegal.’
Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller –Image: Buzz Feed/Twitter
(WeeklyStandard) IRS Acting Commissioner Steven Miller testifying today at a House Ways & Means Committee Hearing claimed that targeting Conservative groups ‘absolutely was not illegal.’
It definitely wasn’t very reassuring to learn today, that Miller who is taking early retirement from his post at the IRS, was responsible for promoting Sarah Hall Ingram to head the ObamaCare enforcement division.
More here from Townhall.com
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IRS Stalled Conservatives, Gave Speedy OK to Obama Foundation
IRS to Enforce ObamaCare –Chicks On The Right
(Heritage Foundation) The recent admission by the IRS that its employees subjected Conservative groups and Jewish organizations whose activities contradicted the Obama Administration’s public policies, raises troubling questions about the agency’s ability to manage ObamaCare in a competent and impartial manner.
At a time when doubts are growing about the IRS’s politically biased behavior, ObamaCare regulators grants the agency massive new authority to implement its complex and bureaucratic regime.
Rest here from The Heritage Foundation
Related: Half of Small Businesses Believe ObamaCare is Bad for Them
(LA Daily News) Then there was only an Islamic interpreter there–the Iranian national wrestling team returned home yesterday, refusing to compete against the United States squad as planned this weekend.
Audit This! Tea Party Groups to Protest the Corruption of the IRS Nationwide Tuesday, 21 May –Michelle Malkin
Accurate –Cartoon Courtesy: Constantine Soriao