Obama’s
sycophants would have you believe that the IRS scandals are not a Democrat or
Obama thing. Heck, they even try
to *blame Bush* on this one, too.
Don’t
buy it.
Money
doesn’t lie (even if it can purchase lies), and of those IRS lawyers who made a
contribution in the 2012 presidential race, 95% made one to Obama. As David French points out, that “looks
more like the political affiliations of Ivy League women’s-studies departments
than those of an allegedly impartial federal bureaucracy.”
The
IRS has become the de facto tax gathering arm of the Democrat Party. And, with the targeting of
conservatives, we are seeing some of the consequences of that.
And
as the Tax Prof points out, it’s not just an IRS problem. Other federal agencies are
overwhelmingly Democrat as indicated by campaign contributions.
This
sort of de facto one-party rule is the
stuff of regimes and is dangerous to the freedoms of those who disagree with
the Democrat regime. The case of Lois Lerner is but one example of that:
In the fall of 1996, at the campaign's climax, Democrats filed with
the Federal Elections Commission charges alleging campaign finance violations
by Salvi's campaign. These charges dominated the campaign's closing days. Salvi
spoke by phone with the head of the FEC's Enforcement Division, who he
remembers saying: "Promise me you will never run for office again, and
we'll drop this case." He was speaking to Lois Lerner.
After losing to Durbin, Salvi spent four years and $100,000 fighting
the FEC, on whose behalf FBI agents visited his elderly mother demanding to
know, concerning her $2,000 contribution to her son's campaign, where she got
"that kind of money." When the second of two federal courts held that
the charges against Salvi were spurious, the lawyer arguing for the FEC was
Lois Lerner.
More recently, she has been head of the IRS Exempt Organizations
Division, which has used its powers of delay, harassment and extortion to
suppress political participation. For example, it has told an Iowa
right-to-life group that it would get tax exempt status if it would promise not
to picket Planned Parenthood clinics.
Rest
assured there are many Lois Lerners, bureaucrats who use raw fed power to put
conservatives and other “enemies” in their place. And remember that Obama is all about punishing enemies.
Ace
may have his tongue-in-cheek when he calls for mass firings. But the current corrupt one-party rule
of numerous federal bureaucracies calls for just that. And if Civil Service laws will not
allow that, then change those laws or make mass reassignments to small stuffy
windowless offices.
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