[speechlesstx]

I am as amused as you are sometimes when you condone what your conservative state legislatures do and yet you say there is no war on women and minorities going on. Protecting the unborn, and being fiscally responsible by cutting food stamps and Medicaid is a sham, that we can all see thru. Direct assaults on women and children.

That's being a bully when the strong pick on the weak.

Tal, it wasn't true the first time and it gets no closer to being the truth the more you repeat it.

Perhaps if the emperor would stop giving away multiple cell phones and billions to his cronies for cars no one wants, windmills to kill more endangered birds with impunity and a multitude of other failed green companies perhaps those who actually need those food stamps can be taken care of properly.

[talaniman]

Nice embellishing to obscure the facts and effects of your own bully agenda, blame not giving the poor a proper safety net on Obama when you know good and well whether Obama was there or not you wouldn't be squealing and repealing the rights of others.

You take doing the right thing further right, ergo extremism, you bully.

[smoothy]

The poor already had a safety net before Owebama, its called Medicaid, welfare (for those too lazy to work), food stamps and a number of other free handouts.

[speechlesstx]

Nice embellishing to obscure the facts and effects of your own bully agenda, blame not giving the poor a proper safety net on Obama when you know good and well whether Obama was there or not you wouldn't be squealing and repealing the rights of others.

You take doing the right thing further right, ergo extremism, you bully.

That's just it, I don't do any such thing. I believe the free market, private charities, removing the government stranglehold of regulations and wasteful spending, personal responsibility, etc. go much further in reducing poverty and restoring dignity and pride than regulating every aspect of our lives (except abortion) and making people dependent on government.

Telling people they didn't build that, they're to dumb to know what's best for them and they can't make it on their own without their band of elite, benevolent Democrat benefactors that look down their nose on them and only care about their vote is bullying. I want to get out of the way so people can succeed, you want to stand firmly in front of them and ensure they can't do squat without your hand in it. I believe in freedom, you believe in indentured servitude.

P.S. A note from the loathsome nanny state mayor of NYC.

Chicago, he reminded, just sent pink slips to 2,100 teachers and school workers to help defray the costs of pensions.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg: NYC may be the next Detroit

It's not conservative policies forcing Chicago to leave children without teachers.

[tomder55]

Hello tom:
Lemme know when you find out...

Yaaaaaaawn!

By the way, if I was the head of Oversight Committee, I'd KNOW what Lois Lerner knows, because I wouldn't treat her with kid gloves... I wonder why Issa is doing that?

excon

So the fact that Lerner is probably the subject of an FBI investigation doesn't excite you either .BTW DOJ criminal investigations are confidential .So how would Issa get the information you think he should get ? And don't give me that immunity bs. That won't go anywhere.

[tomder55]

An IRS agent told the House Ways And Means Committee that the IRS still targets Tea Party groups and that no revisions to the guidelines have been made.
Below is the Ways & Means Committee transcript of the IRS official.

Committee: Today, currently, how do you analyze advocacy cases. If, for example, Tea Party of Arkansas came in today, how would you handle it?

IRS agent: Well, the BOLO list doesn't exist anymore.

Committee: Sure.

IRS: If a political advocacy case came in today, I would give it -- or talk about it to my manager because right now we really don't have any direction or we haven't had any for the last month and a half.

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Committee: If you saw -- I am asking this currently, if today if a Tea Party case, a group -- a case from a Tea Party group came in to your desk, you reviewed the file and there was no evidence of political activity, would you potentially approve that case? Is that something you would do?

IRS agent: At this point I would send it to secondary screening, political advocacy.

Committee: So you would treat a Tea Party group as a political advocacy case even if there was no evidence of political activity on the application. Is that right?

IRS agent: Based on my current manager's direction, uh-huh.

IRS agent: Tax agency is still targeting Tea Party groups | WashingtonExaminer.com

[Tuttyd]

An IRS agent told the House Ways And Means Committee that the IRS still targets Tea Party groups and that no revisions to the guidelines have been made.
Below is the Ways & Means Committee transcript of the IRS official.





IRS agent: Tax agency is still targeting Tea Party groups | WashingtonExaminer.com

The answer to your question is in the article you posted. Apparently the agency has not received any new guidelines when it comes to judging the status of tax groups.

"The wheels of the gods grind slowly, but they grind small"

[talaniman]

What guidelines would be fair? The laws are different for what ever category you apply for and so far most initial application by grass roots groups are done without a lawyer to guide or advise them. If the interpretation of the law and guidelines are unclear and ambiguous, then what would you expect from the process seeing every group and their mama is trying to get an exemption for their activities AND hide where the money comes from.

[tomder55]

Tal it's been more than well documented that specifically Tea Party and Christian groups were targeted ;received unfair scrutiny and had their applications denied or delayed indefinitely . It does not impress me that some liberal groups were also screened before they were approved. Show me the one that was put through the ringer like countless TP groups were .

[talaniman]

Karl Rove didn't have a problem. I can't help it if you guys can't fill out a form. Nor be investigated on the most basic level. Or get a legal adviser before you apply. At some point you will have to face the fact of self created delays like we all did back in the day.

Its like shutting down the government thinking that's a good way to defund Obama Care. Lack of knowledge on procedural rules will bite you. The fervor of conservative principles clearly belies the constraint of the constitution you holler about.

Grassroots built on ideology still needs legal guidance. Gee Tom even government needs legal counsel, and sometimes it's inadequate.

[speechlesstx]

Karl Rove didn't have a problem. I can't help it if you guys can't fill out a form. Nor be investigated on the most basic level. Or get a legal adviser before you apply. At some point you will have to face the fact of self created delays like we all did back in the day.

Its like shutting down the government thinking that's a good way to defund Obama Care. Lack of knowledge on procedural rules will bite you. The fervor of conservative principles clearly belies the constraint of the constitution you holler about.

Grassroots built on ideology still needs legal guidance. Gee Tom even government needs legal counsel, and sometimes it's inadequate.

Unbelievable.

[excon]

Hello again, Steve:

Unbelievable

Yawwwn... Yeah... The IRS sucks. Obama needs to replace the whole shooting match.

But, a scandal, it's NOT.

Excon

[speechlesstx]

Hello again, Steve:
Yawwwn... Yeah... The IRS sucks. Obama needs to replace the whole shooting match.

But, a scandal, it's NOT.

excon

It's a scandal by their own ADMISSION, what do you not understand about that?

At least you don't blow it off as being the victim's fault like Tal does, which is what's unbelievable.

[talaniman]

If you look deeper into your admission crap you would find the delays were for clarification on how to evaluate TParty (and a few hundred others) applications as there is no way investigate them. What's not been reported enough was that searching for their activities through a very reasonable on line search that everybody gets was the only investigative procedure they had for anyone.

I mean how would you verify what kind of group you were dealing with? How would know if they would qualify for exemption status and what status that would be given the various categories.

Tell me Mr. Victim, what you suggest that's better than Google to see if you are legit, or scam? Hell you can't even tell who is an honest citizen from a mass murderer until he shoots up a school. Its okay to stop and frisk the brothers but don't look to hard at a TParty application for exemption. Now releasing private information to ProPublica, THAT'S against the law.

Playing victim is par for the course with you conservatives when you get called on to explain yourself. And it's bogus, no matter how loud you holler.

Sorry I just don't believe all the conservatives facts, they seldom tell the whole truth or serve anyone but another true believer conservative.

[smoothy]

But I bet it would be a scandal if they were going after liberal organisations. In fact they would consider it a scandal of epic porportions.

[talaniman]

Naw, we liberals are use to being investigated and have lawyers to help fill out the forms. We are use to you wingers crying foul over everything too. And blaming everybody but yourself because of course you are always a victim.

[speechlesstx]

If you look deeper into your admission crap you would find the delays were for clarification on how to evaluate TParty (and a few hundred others) applications as there is no way investigate them. What's not been reported enough was that searching for their activities through a very reasonable on line search that everybody gets was the only investigative procedure they had for anyone.

I mean how would you verify what kind of group you were dealing with? How would know if they would qualify for exemption status and what status that would be given the various categories.

Tell me Mr. Victim, what you suggest that's better than Google to see if you are legit, or scam? Hell you can't even tell who is an honest citizen from a mass murderer until he shoots up a school. Its okay to stop and frisk the brothers but don't look to hard at a TParty application for exemption. Now releasing private information to ProPublica, THAT'S against the law.

Playing victim is par for the course with you conservatives when you get called on to explain yourself. And it's bogus, no matter how loud you holler.

Sorry I just don't believe all the conservatives facts, they seldom tell the whole truth or serve anyone but another true believer conservative.

Dude, stop the denial and projection. Facts are not partisan and it all leads back to the IRS' admission of wrongdoing.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service inappropriately flagged conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status, a top IRS official said Friday.

Organizations were singled out because they included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status, said Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups.

In some cases, groups were asked for their list of donors, which violates IRS policy in most cases, she said.

"That was wrong. That was absolutely incorrect, it was insensitive and it was inappropriate. That's not how we go about selecting cases for further review," Lerner said at a conference sponsored by the American Bar Association.

"The IRS would like to apologize for that," she added.

You libs are the only people I know that can take an admission of guilt and deny anything happened. And is still happening as tom showed.

The facts also show she even lied in her admission of wrongdoing.

Lerner said the practice was initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati and was not motivated by political bias.

LIE!

After her talk, she told The AP that no high level IRS officials knew about the practice.

LIE!

[speechlesstx]

Naw, we liberals are use to being investigated and have lawyers to help fill out the forms. We are use to you wingers crying foul over everything too. And blaming everybody but yourself because of course you are always a victim.

Tal, try eating the beef, not what comes out of the cow's a$$.

[excon]

Hello again, Steve:

You libs are the only people I know that can take an admission of guilt and deny anything happened.

The facts also show she even lied in her admission of wrongdoing.

You right wingers are the only people I know who can take a persons WORD that the IRS is guilty of wrongdoing, LINK it to the president, and then call that person a LIAR.

Makes NO sense to me.

Excon

[talaniman]

Your opinions are noted along with your rhetoric. But you guys don't holler scandal when your own party leaders say they are using voter ID to elect republicans. You holler INTEGRITY.

I ain't eating your crap either.