The 10 most bizarre things about the IRS scandal

If you have been following the Internal Revenue Service scandal over the past 24 hours or so, you may be reeling, just a bit. And if you haven’t, you’ve missed an out-of-body experience in which the IRS, the administration and Democrats seem to think Americans are a bunch of dopes.

1. At his contentious hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee, Steven T. Miller, the IRS’s outgoing acting commissioner, denied anything illegal was done. He denied targeting groups. But yes, groups with “tea party” and other conservative flags got different treatment. It was bad, what they did, he allowed. No buzz word like “progressive” was used to flag liberal groups. And he wants a bigger IRS budget. (Honestly, you can’t make this up.)

2. The IRS did not reveal the scandal before the 2012 election. The IRS falsely informed Congress the targeting wasn’t going on. Even NBC’s Lisa Myers could figure out, “Imagine if we — if you can — what would have happened if this fact came out in September 2012, in the middle of a presidential election? The terrain would have looked very different.”

3. Miller said this was a matter of “horrible customer service.”

4. Miller asserted that the woman who ran the group that engaged in this behavior and is now running the Obamacare unit is a “superb civil servant.” (Right about now, you might think he was pulling our leg, but he was sincere.)

5. Miller can’t identify who thought up the scheme.

6. Yesterday, the president, when asked if the White House knew about the scandal before it was revealed, would only say he didn’t know about what was in the Inspector General’s report until the report was released. If anyone in the White House was aware of the misconduct and kept it from coming out before the election, this will be one really big problem for them.

7. Some House Democrats on the committee repeatedly sought to blame the Citizens United case, which ruled about dollar limits on third-party groups, including those at issue in the IRS scandal. That is a bit like blaming the tax code for Al Capone’s tax evasion.

8. However, some Democrats, maybe sensing that this looks really, really bad, expressed outrage and agreed there needs to be more investigation. Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.) said that when it turned out there had been targeting the IRS was obligated to inform Congress. Officials then did not do so.

9. Miller smirked, rolled his eyes and repeatedly refused to answer questions to the obvious dismay of Republicans trying to figure out what the heck went on.

10. The IRS may have leaked confidential tax information from one group to other, according to some of those singled out by the IRS. But it is not yet clear this occurred. (This would definitely be illegal, Mr. Miller.) Recall that during the campaign the Obama team referred to the Koch brothers tax returns. We don’t know if that is related to this scandal. Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and Republicans raised an instances in which this was reported, including one involving the National Organization for Marriage.

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said after the hearing, ““What we don’t know at this point is whether it jumped the fence from the IRS to the White House. But we do know this: We can’t count on the administration to be forthcoming about the details of this scandal — because so far they’ve been anything but.”

Those who imagine the federal government is both dishonest and incompetent had their worst suspicions confirmed over the last couple of days.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/05/17/the-10-most-bizarre-things-about-the-irs-scandal/?hpid=z8

Either Obama is a poor manager because he doesn't do anything to resolve problems, or he is lazy (which he has admitted) and doesn't WANT to know anything OR, there is a thir alternative, he is a LIAR!!!

We would never hear on the Forum of Gloom that underfunding may have been a contributing factor in this mess. The IRS had less than 200 people processing 70,000 applications for tax exempt status. This investigation will hold the road about as well as a bald tire!

Typical left answer, there wasn't enough money. Is the EVER enough money for you lefties? How much is enough?????

News Buzzard wrote:We would never hear on the Forum of Gloom that underfunding may have been a contributing factor in this mess. The IRS had less than 200 people processing 70,000 applications for tax exempt status. This investigation will hold the road about as well as a bald tire!

^^

This is the most bizarre thing about the IRS scandal. Some on the left are actually blaming Republicans.

Bush's Fault!

Yes, you can never hear the left speak, without them blaming everything on the Republicans and or Bush.

This is the most bizarre thing about the IRS scandal. Some on the left are actually blaming Republicans.

Republicans didn't do a Friday "News-Dump" on the IRS corruption.

News Buzzard wrote:We would never hear on the Forum of Gloom that underfunding may have been a contributing factor in this mess..."

Hillary, as Sec'y of State, spent $Millions on "Embassy-Art": funding for the US Embassy at Benghazi was doomed from the start. Can Hillary overcome all this to commit to a 2016 campaign?

Senior W.H. staff knew of IRS investigation, did not tell Obama

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/05/senior-wh-staff-knew-of-irs-investigation-did-not-164378.html

Senior White House staff knew of the ongoing investigation into the IRS's targeting of conservative groups ahead of the release of a report from a Treasury Department inspector general, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday, but held off on informing the president to wait for a final report.
With the knowledge of an investigation, the White House held to a "cardinal rule" that it should not get involved in an external investigation, Carney said during his daily briefing. "No one in this building intervened in an ongoing independent investigation or did anything that could be seen as intervening," he said.

A reporter confirmed with Jay Carney, that Obama met with his chief of staff and the treasury secretary many times over the last month and that neither official told the president of the IRS scandal:

Are we supposed to believe the two groups didn’t talk about the investigation? Really?

Everybody knows and Carney and Obama are lying their asses off.

Well there are a few that don’t…

O’ baahmaah

Yeah, REALLY????