New Emails Show Lois Lerner Called Conservatives ‘A**holes’

[JamesL]

New emails uncovered by the House Ways and Means Committee indicate that former IRS employee Lois Lerner has a strong dislike of conservatives, and at one point called them “assholes” in an email exchange.

The committee released an email Lerner received in November 2012 complaining about the “whacko wing of the GOP.” The person wrote Lerner that there are “too many foreigners sucking the teat,” and that the “right wing radio shows are scary to listen to.”

New emails uncovered by the House Ways and Means Committee indicate that former IRS employee Lois Lerner has a strong dislike of conservatives, and at one point called them “assholes” in an email exchange.

The committee released an email Lerner received in November 2012 complaining about the “whacko wing of the GOP.” The person wrote Lerner that there are “too many foreigners sucking the teat,” and that the “right wing radio shows are scary to listen to.”

Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) said this exchange shows the has a “deep animus towards conservatives,” which may have explained her efforts to target conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.

“This email shows that Ms. Lerner’s mistreatment of conservative groups was driven by her personal hostility toward conservatives,” Camp wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder. ”This new evidence clearly demonstrates why Ms. Lerner not only targeted conservatives, but denied such groups their rights to due process and equal protection under the law.”

Camp’s letter recounted that his committee has found that Lerner personally directed the IRS to audit Crossroads GPS, the group run by Karl Rove, and hinted at seeking a job with Organizing For Action, the group aimed at helping to re-elect President Barack Obama.

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[dbphoenix]

Which of course has nothing to do with following the law.

Tax-exempt status entails certain requirements. Either you meet them or you don't. Whether or not the person reviewing the application approves of the applicant is irrelevant. All that matters is whether or not the requirements are being met.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

Which of course has nothing to do with following the law.

Tax-exempt status entails certain requirements. Either you meet them or you don't. Whether or not the person reviewing the application approves of the applicant is irrelevant. All that matters is whether or not the requirements are being met.

So Richard Nixon putting the IRS on his enemies was A-OK by you? After all, if they didn't have anything to hide, what's the big deal about an audit?

And if the Ted Cruz administration harrasses Soros groups endlessly, no problemo, right?

 

[dbphoenix]

So Richard Nixon putting the IRS on his enemies was A-OK by you? After all, if they didn't have anything to hide, what's the big deal about an audit?

And if the Ted Cruz administration harrasses Soros groups endlessly, no problemo, right?

Did the IRS apply for tax-exempt status?

And if Soros' groups apply for tax-exempt status and don't follow the regs, then no problemo.

 

[jem]

tax exempt status is a red herring.
This is about using the IRS to target groups in a jack booted fashion to swing the election.

If a police force targets all black people speeding in a neighborhood does it matter if some really were 5 miles an hour over the limit?
Or, is the racial targeting the problem?

 

[Ricter]

tax exempt status is a red herring.

If it is, then those groups didn't need tax exempt status (of course they didn't) and they had no good reason to contact the IRS in the first place.

 

[jem]

that makes no sense at all?
tax exempt status helps you raise money.

come on you have seen the emails and what the ag said... you can't seriously deny that they were targeting conservatives.

If it is, then those groups didn't need tax exempt status (of course they didn't) and they had no good reason to contact the IRS in the first place.

 

[CaptainObvious]

The point of the whole deal is that the IRS has no business taking a political position one way or the other. The language in the e-mails shows a clear bias. Further, in a professional business environment words like "assholes" used in an e-mail will bring you some heat. Several years ago I sent an e-mail to a manager of a department different than mine. We were having some friction between our departments and I used a couple of phrases like, get your shit together, and what's the god damn point of this... Well unfortunately in my haste to fire it off I accidentally sent it to the Corporate HR Manager who had the same name, but was at a different location. It wasn't long before the phone rang, conference call ensues. the long and short of it is I get a week of sensitivity training. We all had a good laugh at our particular job site, but the incident stayed in my file at the corporate level.
The question is why are those of us in the private sector held to higher standards than the government slugs? The IRS should be conducting themselves in a much more professional manner.
BTW, my own incident was funny as hell in the long run and it did teach me a valuable lesson. Re-read everything in the e-mail you're about to send off, especially the name of the person you're sending it too, AND the location.:eek:

 

[Ricter]

that makes no sense at all?
tax exempt status helps you raise money.

come on you have seen the emails and what the ag said... you can't seriously deny that they were targeting conservatives.

Maybe it does help, but don't ask for it if you don't qualify for it. That's why that IRS department exists. What's really happened is that some conservative groups self-selected themselves, through stupidity, out of the advocacy business. Working as intended.

 

[dbphoenix]

Maybe it does help, but don't ask for it if you don't qualify for it. That's why that IRS department exists. What's really happened is that some conservative groups self-selected themselves, through stupidity, out of the advocacy business. Working as intended.

Now the churches . . .