In an aggressive move designed to crack down on free-spending outside political groups, the Obama administration is proposing strict new rules curtailing nonprofits like Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS and the pro-Obama Priorities USA.

The draft proposal, released Tuesday by the Treasury Department, would keep so-called social welfare 501(c)(4) nonprofits from getting a tax exemption if they engage in too much “candidate related” political activity.

:President Obama pitches new rules for political nonprofits - Byron Tau - POLITICO.com (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/obama-pitches-new-rules-for-political-nonprofits-100401.html#ixzz2lwNMmjUu)

In other words he's trying to codify the illegal activity his IRS engaged in last year during the 2012 elections .


The proposal is the first major response to a Treasury inspector general report in May blasting the IRS for added scrutiny of tea party conservative groups seeking tax exemption — a major scandal that led President Barack Obama to fire the acting IRS commissioner and other officials to exit the agency.
The inspector general report recommended the IRS tighten its rules.
So instead of taking steps to prevent this type of lawless activity in the future ;he instead wants to make the legitimate activities of the groups illegal.
What really upsets them is that 501s outspent their preferred interest groups like the union movement .
Bottom line on this is that the tax code should not be used to award or punish political speech ,or any other behavior . Eliminate deductions and institute a flat tax .Then the emperor won't have to concern himself with punishing Tea Party Groups and rewarding other cronies through the tax code .

well of course these pseudo political organisations need to be muzzled

these pseudo political organisations The Democrats ?

Hello tom:

Nahhh... The problem was how 501C4 organizations were examined... Now, it's being fixed.

Of course, if you believe the problem was Obama TARGETING his enemies, ala Nixon, then you won't believe me.

excon

PS> By the way, if MY president is a crook, I wanna KNOW it. But, Issa let Lois Lerner slide WITHOUT finding out WHAT she KNEW. I dunno WHY he'd do that, unless he just wanted to score political points. Must I remind you that our founders did NOT leave the congress TOOTHLESS in its oversight responsibilities???

So, there's no PROOF at all. That would be NONE! It's just right wingers flapping their gums as usual..

Wondering how the emperor will make an exception for OFA .
What is being unsaid here is that this is the emperor's regulatory putsch to roll back Citizen's United . This is just another example of executive over-reach .

Hello again, tom:

What is being unsaid here is that this is the emperor's regulatory putsch to roll back Citizen's United .If you wouldn't have said it, I would have. It's exactly that. And, he's using the RULES to get it.

Look.. If he's ABUSING the Constitution, put Issa on it. He's your crack investigator.. Bwa, ha ha ha.

excon

Issa said the move is "a crass political effort by the administration to get what political advantage they can, when they can.”“The regulation released today continues [the administration's] unfortunate pattern of stifling constitutional free speech,”

I'm sure you'll here more from him and Orin Hatch from the Senate Finance Committee.

Hello again, tom:

I'm sure you'll here more from him and Orin Hatch from the Senate Finance Committee.Yeah, Orrin is facing a Tea Party guy in the primary, so he's gotta LOOK like he HATES Obama. And, Issa is going to be as feckless as ever.

excon

You're going to sing a different tune when the Repubs get the majority in both Houses and the Presidency . We'll see how happy you are about all the new executive powers and rules changes that favor absolute power of the majority .

These guys won't be muzzled.



2013: Year of the liberal billionaire - Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman - POLITICO.com (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/liberal-billionaires-fundraising-2013-elections-tom-steyer-mark-zuckerberg-michael-bloomberg-99207.html)

Hello again, tom:

We'll see how happy you are about all the new executive powers and rules changes that favor absolute power of the majority .Oh, I'm sure you'll take us back to a time when abortion was illegal and literacy tests weren't.

excon

You libs crack me up.

I guess you conservatives feel like the Packers getting their tails kicked and just waiting for this game to end. Ya got 3 more years, but you haven't stopped the Prez yet, doubt if you can.

You're going to sing a different tune when the Repubs get the majority in both Houses and the Presidency . We'll see how happy you are about all the new executive powers and rules changes that favor absolute power of the majority .


Exactly, then you can defend what you have be criticising.

We'll see how happy you are about all the new executive powers and rules changes that favor absolute power of the majority .


First you have to earn that majority Tom. You see what you are blind to is the reality that the electorate doesn't trust you with absolute power

Exactly, then you can defend what you have be criticising.

You haven't seen me shy about calling the Repubics out when they deserve it .

Mostly when they have caved to dems, or act like rino's.

yea and there's way too many examples of that.

yea and there's way too many examples of that.see No true Scotsman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman)

karma you are right no true republican would sit on his hands while the country goes to the dogs, he would get out there and create jobs, share his largesse around, in other words stop carping and start doing

if only the IRS could steal another election for the emperor how better off we'd be !
End presidential term limits - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/end-presidential-term-limits/2013/11/28/50876456-561e-11e3-ba82-16ed03681809_story.html)

if only the IRS could steal another election for the emperor how better off we'd be !
End presidential term limits - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/end-presidential-term-limits/2013/11/28/50876456-561e-11e3-ba82-16ed03681809_story.html)


Those gripes must be tasting pretty sour by now. Fact the facts you lost because your candidtate was a lame duck who thought 47% of the nation were of no interest

Worst idea ever (end presidential term limits)... but since it's just an opinion piece there's nothing to worry about.

Yes they could go back to having a president for four terms or life even

He believes term limits limit democracy.But democracy must be limited in a Republic.
Term limits should be extended to Congress and the courts too. We must stick to a 2 term Presidency. FDR broke the tradition by getting 4 terms ,but 4 previous Presidents tried and failed for 3rd terms (Grant, Cleveland ,Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt) .

Hello again, tome:

Term limits should be extended to Congress and the courts too.I cannot imagine living in a country where the judges are elected. In such a country, do you REALLY think the judges will rule according to law, or will they rule according to the needs of their benefactors????

excon

Judges are elected in this country all the time . It's only at the Federal level where the judges are appointed by the political leaders.
That being said ...I was not saying Federal Judges should be elected. What I would like is their terms expire and be subject to reappointment .

Term limits for everyone.

Gun control fans in Colorado have embraced the regime's thug tactics...

The Gun-Control Movement's Thug Tactics in Colorado | National Review Online (http://m.nationalreview.com/corner/365036/gun-control-movements-thug-tactics-colorado-charles-c-w-cooke)

Good to see the left embraces our rights.

Colorado House Passes New Gun Control Laws (http://www.inquisitr.com/531273/colorado-house-passes-new-gun-control-laws/)

Have we forgotten what sparks these laws? Mass killings! The right has no solutions, and doing nothing is their answer.

Screw your laws, seems people don't much like it when you lefties trample on their rights, and your response is to trample on them some more.

Just trying to save some babies and innocent people from loony's with guns. Get out of the way, and you won't get trampled!

You want to talk about saving babies?

Nothing wrong with people trying to save schoolchildren from getting slaughtered.

As if I want schoolchildren slaughtered? Unlike the pro-abortion cried I don't children slaughtered before or after birth. And yet somehow they can't make the connection between their cheapening of life and such massacres.

I knew you would go there rather than have a solution to loony's shooting babies (which you obviously have NONE). I have already said a sexually active human should have the knowledge and responsibility not to get pregnant was my solution to abortions just like humans who have resources and a good doctor have.

Better than law makers getting between patients and doctors, and sticking stuff up a female, and berating and humiliating her, or making it such a traumatic event she is scarred for life with no help and support through it. Or telling a doctor how best to treat his/her patient. Or supplanting a scientific view for a religious one.

People with their own resources can/do/and have ignored others telling them what to do, and you can only bully the uninformed or the ones with no resources into your way of thinking.

they can't make the connection between their cheapening of life and such massacresThere's a connection? What is it?

Dude, the only ones bullying anyone are liberals. Thays what the pay war about, bulging the voters in Colorado and trying to silence them while smeating them in the process and flooding the state with that outside money you allegedly hate.

If there were no abortions we wouldn't have any massacres? Well why didn't you say so?

That's reading a lot into what I said. But if you don't value life enough to protect the most helpless why would you expect people to respect it later?

No one can explain what a loony respect, or what they will do. Can you? Obvious answer is something crazy.

No Tal he has a point

meanwhile the stonewalling continues ....
Issa: FBI impeding inquiry into IRS targeting of conservative groups - Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/2/lawmakers-suspect-fbi-is-impeding-irs-inquiry-targ/)

I wouldn't expect any less from the most transparent regime ever.

Issa should investigate himself.

????

His half a$$ investigations are partisan witch hunts and don't bring to light the root causes of any situation. Nor does it confirm the validity of his sources.

I sent you a link months ago to see how he conducts these house hearings and it has nothing to do with fact finding or investigating. The transcripts are available here (http://www.fednews.com/index.html).

His half a$$ investigations are partisan witch hunts

As opposed to partisan with hunts being conducted by the IRS.


and don't bring to light the root causes of any situation. Nor does it confirm the validity of his sources.

By all means, enlighten us.