Top IRS official will invoke the 5th amendment

budcampbell · May 24, 2013

Quote from piezoe:

I get all my news from very liberal sources, almost communist, i.e., public radio.

Why were there not any left-wing groups targeted? The public isn't buying it, and can smell lying and a coverup. Anyone watching the testimony had to be appalled by the arrogance, as if they are accountable to no one. Public Servants? Lol.

bigarrow · May 24, 2013

Quote from budcampbell:

Why were there not any left-wing groups targeted? The public isn't buying it, and can smell lying and a coverup. Anyone watching the testimony had to be appalled by the arrogance, as if they are accountable to no one. Public Servants? Lol.

My best guess is it's political and it doesn't go to the president. I can't imagine him doing something that stupid and ineffective, but some real smart and powerful men in the past have made much larger mistakes so I know it is possible. If you really believe in the smarts of guys like Cruz and the doggedness of the tea party crowd then you know most of the facts will come out.

Lucrum · May 24, 2013

Quote from piezoe:

I get all my news from very liberal sources, almost communist, i.e., public radio.

That does explain your bias.

pspr · May 24, 2013

Quote from piezoe:

I get all my news from very liberal sources, almost communist, i.e., public radio.

So, you are admitting to biased ignorance on political topics. I understand.

Just don't expect to report your biased untruths here without one of us ripping you a new asshole.

Ricter · May 24, 2013

Quote from budcampbell:

Why were there not any left-wing groups targeted?

Because they didn't put "Workers of the World United Party" in their name?

pspr · May 24, 2013

Quote from Ricter:

Because they didn't put "Workers of the World United Party" in their name?

Ricter, that worm in your head that has been eating your brain must have had a bunch of friends over for dinner last night.

piezoe · May 24, 2013

Quote from Ricter:

Because they didn't put "Workers of the World United Party" in their name?

That's far more clever than what I came up with. I was simply going to ask budcampbell if there were any left wing political organizations that had applied for "Social Welfare Agency Status?" You did better!

piezoe · May 24, 2013

Quote from pspr:

So, you are admitting to biased ignorance on political topics. I understand.

Just don't expect to report your biased untruths here without one of us ripping you a new asshole.

Oh, I'm not.

pspr · May 24, 2013

Quote from piezoe:

That's far more clever than what I came up with. I was simply going to ask budcampbell if there were any left wing political organizations that had applied for "Social Welfare Agency Status?" You did better!

I'm still waiting for a link to back up you claim, dumbass.

piezoe · May 24, 2013

Quote from bigarrow:

My best guess is it's political and it doesn't go to the president. I can't imagine him doing something that stupid and ineffective, but some real smart and powerful men in the past have made much larger mistakes so I know it is possible. If you really believe in the smarts of guys like Cruz and the doggedness of the tea party crowd then you know most of the facts will come out.

The more that we know, the less I think it was even political. I think it was just the IRS saying WTF!, when a 527 group asked to be treated, for tax purposes, as a "social welfare agency". (There was a Bush appointee heading up the IRS at the time this fiasco got started.)

And of course you're right. (I made the same point earlier.) Obama is not going to go anywhere near the IRS in that way, and anyone on the White house staff that did (if they did, and I doubt it) will get fired post haste.