You may have noticed last week was not a very
good week for the Obama Administration (or for Hillary). The unraveling of Benghazi accelerated
as I suggested it might two weeks ago. But the
admission, apology even, from the IRS that it targeted tea party political
groups could be more damaging in the long run. Here’s why.
1. Whereas one has actually to pay attention to
the world to know what Benghazi is, pretty much every American knows what the
IRS is. The scandal is easier to
understand and hits closer to home for most people.
2. It is a proven undisputed fact that the IRS
targeted conservative groups. The
IRS itself admitted it Friday. The
only question is how high up did it go.
And that question got a lot more interesting Saturday.
3.
There is already a cover-up exposed, by AP of all people. Whereas we were told Friday it was just
low level people with no political motivation (SNORT!), now it is reported that
the Chief Council knew what was going on . . . in 2011. And if the Chief Council knew then
surely then IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman knew . . . and then lied before
Congress on March 22, 2012. That’s
not to mention Lois Lerner’s statement on Friday is already shown to be a lie.
And I don’t want to hear any Lefty spin that
Shulman was a Bush appointee. So
what if he was? Bush made his share of bad appointments, and this is one of
them. And Shulman being a Bush
appointee makes it that much more likely that the impetus for targeting
conservatives and then covering it up came from higher up still. Heck, he even looks like a sniveling
worm who does what he’s told. Evil
regimes have always been well served by spineless amoral people who “follow
orders.”
Source: AP
4.
The anger over this is liable to become nuclear fast if it is not there
already. People despise the
IRS. And the IRS targeting people
and groups for political ends is just not tolerated by semi-reasonable people. Nixon was about to be impeached for
this (among other things, of course).
Even the Washington Post is indignant and critical of Obama for not getting up front on this.
There is a reason this is not tolerated. It is the stuff of totalitarian
governments and banana republics.
5.
With this scandal already reaching to the IRS Commissioner at the time,
we are very soon reaching the point where all but Obama sycophants and the
chronically asleep will conclude that the White House was involved or at least
encouraged this. And even if he
didn’t know, the IRS is part of Treasury which, of course, is under Obama (which is why I've pointedly titled this post "Obama's IRS".) He is responsible if that word can be
used about him. Even if Obama is never directly implicated, the political
damage could turn him into the lamest of lame ducks.
By the way, doesn’t his admonition just the other day not to listen to voices warning of tyranny now look that much more lame? Right under him, the IRS was using its enforcement
powers for political targeting, even of those “educating on the Constitution
and Bill of Rights.” Those, such
as your humble blogger, warning of tyranny and even of the Obama regime’s
totalitarian streak have just been proven right!
6. Now it appears Jewish groups were targeted
by the IRS. I do not have to
violate Godwin’s law to say how sensitive that is. By the way, doesn’t it seem all totalitarians just have to
beat up on the Joooos? It’s
practically required.
Not-so-by-the-way, we know of at least one Romney supporter who was targeted by the IRS and of the Labor Department:
Just
months after being slimed by President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign,
Mitt Romney supporter and businessman Frank VanderSloot was informed that he
was going to be audited not only by the Internal Revenue Service, but by the
Labor Department as well.
VanderSloot’s
saga was told
by columnist Kimberley Strassel in the Wall Street Journal last July.
In
April 2012, VanderSloot, who served as the national co-chair of Mitt
Romney’s presidential finance committee, was one of eight Romney backers to
be defamed as ”wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable
records” in a post on the Obama campaign’s website. The post,
entitled “Behind
the curtain: a brief history of Romney’s donors,” singled
out VanderSloot for being a ”litigious, combative and a
bitter foe of the gay rights movement.”
Two
months later, the IRS informed VanderSloot he and his wife were going to be
audited, Strassel reported. Two weeks after that, VanderSloot was notified by
the Labor Department that it was going to “audit workers he employs on his
Idaho-based cattle ranch under the federal visa program for temporary
agriculture workers,” reported Strassel.
Expect more episodes to come to light. More are coming out by the day it
seems.
Oh, The Dear Leader Himself joked about auditing opponents back on 2009.
It is not so funny now.
As for fools making excuses for Obama on this, they are going down, too.
MORE:
It has now come out the targeting has been
going on since 2010.
I think a Special Prosecutor is called
for. Rats are going to have to be
threatened with prison time before they tell the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth.
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