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

[AAAintheBeltway]

It's not just the people they harrassed. It's the millions more who thought about it and decided not to get involved in issues publicly because they feared getting on someone's target list.

This is a standard practice of the hard left. Cow ordinary people into silence with threats. The gay activists have gotten very good at it. Years ago they were going around whining we just want to be left alone and not persecuted. Now they are doing the persecuting.

Th AGW kooks tried the same thing, but they have been so discreditied, it's hardr for them. They want to put people in jail for disagreeing however.

 

[futurecurrents]

It's not just the people they harrassed. It's the millions more who thought about it and decided not to get involved in issues publicly because they feared getting on someone's target list.

This is a standard practice of the hard left. Cow ordinary people into silence with threats. The gay activists have gotten very good at it. Years ago they were going around whining we just want to be left alone and not persecuted. Now they are doing the persecuting.

Th AGW kooks tried the same thing, but they have been so discreditied, it's hardr for them. They want to put people in jail for disagreeing however.

Yes, the AGW kooks, like these guys.....

American Physical Society

"The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth’s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now." (2007)8


So really, it's statements like you made above that give credence to what Lerner said. The right wing nut jobs like you are simply fucked up.

 

[Ricter]

It's not just the people they harrassed. It's the millions more who thought about it and decided not to get involved in issues publicly because they feared getting on someone's target list.

Actually, if you just wanted to support some candidate or issue, you didn't need tax exempt status and so you had no need to contact the IRS. In other words, all those "millions" were then and still are completely free to promote their beliefs.

 

[CaptainObvious]

Probably people in compliance have a mental "bolo" list anyway. I mean, if someone is on the lookout for groups that might really be political but pretending to be charitable, then that person might want to look at groups with politically loaded words in their names. Worth a second look, anyway.

LOL. All groups are political pretending to be charitable. Either we take the big money out of campaigning, or we accept the blatant electoral manipulation that we have.

 

[piezoe]

This entire House Investigation is misguided and a waste of tax payer money. It is political grandstanding of the worst kind. We have concluded after many weeks of time, and at huge tax payer cost, that an IRS employee, Ms Lois Lerner, acted inappropriately and should be sanctioned.

The investigation should have instead centered on the need to revise the statutes or the code. The later does, thankfully, seem to be a useful result of this otherwise absurd political circus. The IRS has announced that they are working on code revision, which we can all hope will put an end to this hiding of contributors by political organizations, of all stripes, masquerading as "social welfare" agencies. The claims of these organizations that they are social welfare agencies is , prima facie, so ridiculous that one has to conclude that the real problem is not Lois Lerner, but IRS code and procedure that would invite such a thing in the first place.

 

[dbphoenix]

This entire House Investigation is misguided and a waste of tax payer money. It is political grandstanding of the worst kind. We have concluded after many weeks of time, and at huge tax payer cost, that an IRS employee, Ms Lois Lerner, acted inappropriately and should be sanctioned.

The investigation should have instead centered on the need to revise the statutes or the code. The later does, thankfully, seem to be a useful result of this otherwise absurd political circus. The IRS has announced that they are working on code revision, which we can all hope will put an end to this hiding of contributors by political organizations, of all stripes, masquerading as "social welfare" agencies. The claims of these organizations that they are social welfare agencies is , prima facie, so ridiculous that one has to conclude that the real problem is not Lois Lerner, but IRS code and procedure that would invite such a thing in the first place.

Stop being so damn reasonable. It's a distraction.

 

[jem]

are you an american citizen? seriously, you did not answer the question last time.
ricter has pangs of freedom that he could not disavow ... but you seem to want america to progress towards a fascist state.

This entire House Investigation is misguided and a waste of tax payer money. It is political grandstanding of the worst kind. We have concluded after many weeks of time, and at huge tax payer cost, that an IRS employee, Ms Lois Lerner, acted inappropriately and should be sanctioned.

The investigation should have instead centered on the need to revise the statutes or the code. The later does, thankfully, seem to be a useful result of this otherwise absurd political circus. The IRS has announced that they are working on code revision, which we can all hope will put an end to this hiding of contributors by political organizations, of all stripes, masquerading as "social welfare" agencies. The claims of these organizations that they are social welfare agencies is , prima facie, so ridiculous that one has to conclude that the real problem is not Lois Lerner, but IRS code and procedure that would invite such a thing in the first place.

 

[Lucrum]

Stop being so damn reasonable. It's a distraction.

Uh actually we're trying to get him to be reasonable more often. It's all his other drivel that's a distraction. Like yours for example.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

are you an american citizen? seriously, you did not answer the question last time.
ricter has pangs of freedom that he could not disavow ... but you seem to want america to progress towards a fascist state.

He's ok with Obama persecuting conservatives. In his view, they were asking for it, kind of like Ray Rice's girl friend.

If a leftwing group is investigated though, it's the end of all civil liberties.

Look at the phony scandal the democrats cooked up when Bush replaced a few U. S. Attorneys, who are political appointees who serve at the president's pleasure.

 

[jem]

I looked it up. interesting concept. Not that I really feel the comparison needs defending but... I do not think Godwin's law applies here.
Comparing the weaponization of the IRS to the nazi use of the gestapo to the intimidate its citizens is not a glib comparision. It may be a double compared to a home run but it is in the same league maybe even same ballpark.

By the way, and I'm sure Tsing was going to mention it soon, Godwin's Law.