Remember the Lois Lerner IRS scandal? She was a bigwig at the IRS and was accused of orchestrating politically inspired investigations of the legitimacy of the various tea parties. The accusation, of course, came from the various tea parties themselves as well as the GOP. Imagine that. New political party organizations spring up literally overnight and claim tax-exempt status and people are surprised that the IRS looks into that? They think it's a "political witch hunt"?
It reminds me of the scenes in "Dirty Harry" where the serial killer, Scorpio, hires a thug to beat the living shit out of him so that he can claim that Inspector Callaghan did it, thus getting him off the case. Pretty slick. I'm no fan of the IRS (and really, who is?) but, they are supposed to check these things out. If they didn't, we'd all be tax-exempt churches, political organizations, football leagues and Exxon. There is no crime in checking things out. There can be a crime committed in not checking things out. And, certainly, there can be a crime committed in persecuting people and/or organizations for political gain.
The latter never happened. The scandal is that the assholes in the GOP and the Foxzi Party on TV think that that was the intent of the Lerner investigations. It might well be a case of the GOP saying: "That's what WE would do!" and projecting that upon Obama. I'm inclined to believe they made a Scorpio-like move though to give themselves a free play at their money-making scheme. To investigate them now would just be suspicious....
The reality is, it was business as usual for the IRS. They took a look at democrat organizations too. The protesting too much was political opportunity. The whole Obama administration up to this very second in time has been about political opportunity- just not so much for him and the democrats, as you would expect.
Every fucking thing he does is deemed by them to be a scandal. Cry "wolf" much? It's a joke. If a real scandal did come along in the next two years, how hard would it be for the White House to say: "Scandal? Oh, like BENGHAZI!!!? Solyndra? Fast And Furious? Affordable Care Act? Golf? Ed Cetera, Ed Cetera? All of those scandals?" The wolf could come and eat us all but, if Issa or Gowdy investigates it and Sean Fucking Hannity reports on it, who of consequence could take it seriously?
Politics is a team sport. It always has been but it seems worse than ever. Ever watch football with a rabid fan of "the other" team? Their guys commit no fouls and the refs are "in on it", when they get called for a face mask...that was clearly NOT a face mask. Are you going to believe them or your lying eyes? When your team scores, it's because you cheated. Come on! YOU KNOW IT!
It's pathetic but, ain't that America? Partisan hackery rules on the internet from Topix to Facebook. People who call themselves both Americans and patriots root and pray for America to fail so that Obama fails. We know that Mitch McConnell and other high-ranking repubs met right after Obama was elected and said- in so many words- that their singular mission was to make Barack Obama a one term president. Well, they failed miserably. Now that he's halfway through his second term they stop just sort of vowing to limit him to but two terms. There are people who believe Obama will take over and declare himself dictator for life but, none of those people are Barack Obama. The idea now is to ruin his legacy. If America fails on his watch- HE DID IT! WOO HOO! WE WIN!!!!!!!
Nobody hates Americans more than other Americans. These teapublican mopes are no better than ISIL. Lerner has received death threats over this shit. Why? I'm asking for good answer here. I've heard all the death to tyrants crap that doesn't apply in this century, to this duly elected administration. The assholes in the threads and the one's who make the threats against the president and other government officials are the abused pups that give the republican breed the bad name they now have. You beat a dog to make him mean and chain him to a tree...what do you expect? What happens to these abused animals if the republicans ever do get in the White House again and they find out that government will only shrink in size to benefit corporate rule? They'll probably not appreciate the dissent and they'll frown upon the tactics. They won't think them "team players" or "superfans" anymore. They would probably put them down like abused animals....
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