IRS Scandal

[Wickabee]

I still don't understand the point you're trying to make. Is the IRS scandal okay in your eyes because of things that happened in the past?

No, but I see no reason why you should be mad at Obama for this, but not mad at Bush and Cheney for wasting taxpayer money and killing American soldiers to make a quick buck.

The only possibility is that you hate Obama because of his race or party. So which is it?

I just want to know if you're actually anger or turning your partisanship and/or racism into feigned anger. Being that you see no reason to be mad at Bush breaking laws, I have to assume you're feigning anger for partisan/racist reasons.

That's all, carry on.

[tpeichel]

You nailed it, I don't like that this administration used the IRS to target its political enemies because I am a racist. (The left has tried to squelch debate using the racist slur so often that it is now meaningless.)

[tpeichel]

I guess we'll find out if Alex is right and the IRS did nothing wrong.

True the Vote, a Houston-based nonprofit dedicated to fighting voter fraud, has filed suit in federal court against the IRS, asking the court to grant its tax-exempt status (three years after applying) and seeking damages for unlawful actions taken by the IRS against the organization.
Catherine Engelbrecht, a member of the Harris County, Texas, tea-party organization King Street Patriots, founded True the Vote after serving as a poll worker during the 2008 elections. Observing how understaffed polling places seemed to encourage voter fraud, she established True the Vote to train poll workers to “true” the vote: “to research the voter rolls in their home districts and to report inaccuracies to their County and State, to identify instances of vote fraud, and to be able to serve as observers at the polls to assure the integrity of the vote.”
“We’ve been waiting for three years to receive a decision from the IRS about our tax exempt status,” says Engelbrecht in a True the Vote press release. “After answering hundreds of questions and producing thousands of documents, we’re done waiting. The IRS does not have the power to pocket veto our application. Federal law empowers groups like True the Vote to force a decision in court — which is precisely what we aim to do.”

After filing with the IRS, Engelbrecht and her family’s small manufacturing business was audited by the IRS — and received unexpected scrutiny from OSHA, the ATF, and the FBI.

True the Vote’s lawsuit consists of three counts:

Count One: Seeks recognition of True the Vote as a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization pursuant to 26 USC § 7428.

Count Two: Seeks damages and injunctive relief from the IRS and IRS employees and agents, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1331 and Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), for violation of True the Vote’s constitutional rights by virtue of the actions of the government in unlawfully targeting and delaying recognition of True the Vote’s exempt status.

Count Three: Seeks damages and injunctive relief against the IRS and IRS employees, pursuant to 26 USC § 7431, for their unlawful intrusions into True the Vote’s activities by requiring the filing of voluminous materials with the IRS, then unlawfully inspecting and potentially disseminating the information.

Says Cleta Mitchell, attorney for True the Vote: “We are not going to allow the IRS to claim, as it has been doing in the past week, that the targeting of conservative groups is over and ‘everything has been fixed.’ It is not yet fixed and this litigation is a vital step both to resolve True the Vote’s status and to learn exactly what happened inside the IRS.”

[tpeichel]

Hey Alex, don't you usually invoke the 5th amendment when you are afraid that what you will say will provide evidence of your guilt? I thought the IRS didn't do anything wrong?

The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday afternoon that Lois Lerner, who heads up the Internal Revenue Service's tax-exempt division, plans to invoke the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a hearing Wednesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs.
The Fifth Amendment provides that U.S. citizens may not be compelled to offer testimony if telling the truth would incriminate them.

[Wickabee]

You nailed it, I don't like that this administration used the IRS to target its political enemies because I am a racist. (The left has tried to squelch debate using the racist slur so often that it is now meaningless.)

No no. That's why there's some difference between the two. White Republican lawbreaking President is a-ok, but the Black Democrat who may or may not have had something to do with this should be impeached, right?

You're very transparent. Partisanship is what's killing your country.l and you have the nerve to call yourself a patriot.
Sickening.

[JustAlex]

^^^^^^This would represent Alexs version of due process which would also be endorsed by Obama, Hitler, and any other murderous tyrant of the past couple hundred centuries or so.

I love how you put Obama and Hitler together.

What else to expect from conservatives.

As a matter of fact lets have a conservative president also adopt this CRAZY concept, we can toss all the people that vote for democrats in prison camps because they support the likes of the weather underground, muslim brotherhood, the socialist natzi extremist, and any other irrational group out there. I wont mention any other groups.

Seriously, how deluded are you?

It's not even worth arguing any of your points since they're not coming from your mouth but your other orifice.

[ajcorleone]

I said it in a previous post It was a different era but Nixon was impeached for less.Let the chips fall where they may.

[centrehice]

Nixon's impeachment was far greater than what the IRS is alleged to have done. Nixon had he been a citizen would have been hanged for Treason. Domestic Espionage is punishable by death. It's his office that save his life.

[Wickabee]

Nixon's impeachment was far greater than what the IRS is alleged to have done. Nixon had he been a citizen would have been hanged for Treason. Domestic Espionage is punishable by death. It's his office that save his life.

And an idiot who had him pardoned.

[tpeichel]

No no. That's why there's some difference between the two. White Republican lawbreaking President is a-ok, but the Black Democrat who may or may not have had something to do with this should be impeached, right?

You're very transparent. Partisanship is what's killing your country.l and you have the nerve to call yourself a patriot.
Sickening.

How often do you attack someone for being a racist with no proof? Unbelievable.