IRS Prayer Audit?

The very arrogance of now former acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller yesterday spoke loudly of two things: 1) the Internal Revenue Service should be abolished; 2) Hair Club for Men is not for everyone.

Washington Examiner:

During a House Ways and Means Committee hearing today, Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., grilled outgoing IRS commissioner Steven Miller about the IRS targeting a pro-life group in Iowa.

“Their question, specifically asked from the IRS to the Coalition for Life of Iowa: ‘Please detail the content of the members of your organization’s prayers,’” Schock declared.

“Would that be an inappropriate question to a 501 (c) (3) applicant?” asked Schock. “The content of one’s prayers?”



“It pains me to say I can’t speak to that one either,” Miller replied.

Of course it didn’t pain him at all. Except perhaps that Miller is used to asking questions and getting answers, not the other way around. Something tells me this a**hole would not draw the line at stoning Christians.

What was it Aunt Esther said on Sanford and Son all those years ago? God will smite thee! But I can’t wait, Fred, let’s beat hell outta him!

This goes higher, folks.

Ever see a guy for the first time and have the urge to b*tch slap him? No discernable reason, he hasn’t spoken a word but he royally pisses you off? Okay, I’m not talking to you guys who curl your pinky finger when you sip your orange juice in the morning.

For me that man is former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

The Wall Street Journal had this yesterday. (Our emphasis).

WSJ:

The Internal Revenue Service’s watchdog told top Treasury officials around June 2012 he was investigating allegations the tax agency had targeted conservative groups, for the first time indicating that Obama administration officials were aware of the explosive matter in the midst of the president’s re-election campaign.

The disclosure to the Treasury general counsel and the deputy secretary was a cursory one, according to J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. [Read]

You knew this was coming, right? If the T-men knew, Geithner knew, and if Geithner knew…

We are seeing a bit of a sea change here in the way liberals are speaking about this publically, though.

John Fund via Before It’s News:

The recent spate of Washington scandals has some liberals finally confessing in public what many of them have said privately for a long time. The Obama administration is arrogant, insular, prone to intimidation of adversaries, and slovenly when it comes to seeing that rules are followed. Indeed, the Obama White House is a strange place, and it’s good that its operational model is now likely to be finally dissected by the media.

Joe Klein of Time magazine laments Obama’s “unwillingness to concentrate.”

…Comedian Jon Stewart says Obama’s government lacks real “managerial competence” and that the president is either Nixonian if he knew about the scandals in advance or a Mr. Magoo–style incompetent if he didn’t.… [A Good Read]

Even Candy Crowley took a break from her from her Oreos and milk to note that this might be a serious breach of public trust.

Newsbusters:

After Friday’s IRS testimony before Congress, CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield begged CNN host Candy Crowley to “take me off the ledge” and explain that the agency was simply doing its job looking for “sleazeballs that are trying to get special status.”

Crowley shot down Banfield’s astoundingly ignorant plea. “And the only sleazeballs have ‘Tea Party’ in their name or ‘patriot’? What about ‘progressive’?” Crowley asked of the agency’s double standard in investigating Tea Party groups while approving liberal groups more quickly. [More]

You remember Candy, right, chair of the Obama For God campaign? Actually Candy is two chairs… Okay, okay, that was un-PC and totally uncalled for etc. etc. etc.

Anyway…

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Is This Obamagate?

When Hollywood filmed “All the President’s Men” they had to enhance the seriousness of the crimes to keep it interesting. If they ever film Obamagate (I can see Spielberg and Scorsese fighting for the script) they will have to cut out ethics violations and criminal acts to keep it under four hours.

Okay, Obamagate? Well, I know it’s a little tired, but I really think this deserves a “-gate”, don’t you? I mean there’s Benghazi, the IRS Targeting, and AP-gate… Well, AP is the media and will almost certainly bestow itself with its very own -gate without my help. But overall, I think we have an Obama-gate.

Then there are all the subplots. Like Obama “firing” an IRS commissioner who was already leaving in two weeks, and installing the person who was most likely behind the scandal… er, -gate, to head IRS-Obamacare oversight.

Lots of subplots: hiding the IRS probe until after the election; the Justice Dept. using the national security jacket to seize documents, as retaliation against the Associated Press; and Homeland Security’s pro-Islamist deference while pursuing a “no tolerance” policy toward conservative groups.

Let’s not forget that huge pro-Islamic bias in the State Department either. The media—you remember, they’re the ones Obama’s picking on—have all but broken out in the azan to cover up Hillary Clinton-advisor Huma Abedin’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Perhaps the most amazing thing about the unfolding events of the past few weeks is the sudden media outrage. Let’s face it, Obama and the press corps has to be the greatest love affair since Charlie Sheen used his first swizzle-stick coke straw.

Of course Obama still has his supporters. Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow would switch sexual orientations for the guy. Jonathan Alter… well, deep kissing under the mistletoe at the White House Christmas party is not out of the question. But many in the media have turned the corner, albeit probably for the wrong reasons.

The administration has crossed ethical boundaries and undoubtedly committed crimes to further the extremist agenda Obama set for his presidency. As the story unravels, it is becoming clearer, almost by the minute, that they have intended to end two-party democracy as we know it.

Yep, pretty sure we have a -gate here.

HT Drudge

Obama Fires IRS Acting Commish: WKRP in Cincinnati Returns!

Barack Obama is nothing if not consistent. His whirlwind no-questions press conference last night was as blustery as the Windy City and as exciting as a Keeping Up with the Kardashians episode.

Today’s lunch briefer was even less eventful. The question of course is who in the administration knew about this mysterious “rogue operation” in Cincinnati? Which Obama ran from like a field mouse who’s stumbled into a cat show.

The Daily Caller:

“I can assure that I certainly did not know anything about the [inspector general] report before the IG report had been leaked through the press,” he told reporters during a Thursday lunchtime press conference held in the White House Rose Garden. [More]

In other words…

I am Barack Obama, who is president, and I did not know anything about this, but I will not tolerate these kinds of things that happen repeatedly in my administration and never seem to get resolved. Next question. Thank you, Brian Karl? Yes… Well, I am Barack Obama, who is president, and I did not know anything about this, but I will not tolerate… Next question?

Even MSNBC’s Chris Matthews has been dethrilled. Where is the brilliant leader he just knew was lurking under that thrill running up his leg? Well, Chris, as Raymond Chandler said, “The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine.” After that he takes your clothes off.

And the thrill is fading fast for a lot of his former admirers.

Full Caf Americano

What do we know? First, this is not WKRP in Cincinnati. Loni Anderson isn’t running the station and Obama isn’t the hip, smooth-talking morning man. At least he is not anymore.

The level of sophistication in this attempt to derail the Tea Party movement’s 501 applications screams of organized Chicago politics at its worst. Second, the commissioner was a donor to Campaign Obama. Third, someone in the White House knew.

Let’s dispense with the “Did Obama Know?” question. It is ridiculous. The president normally would not know about an illegal operation targeting opposition political groups by his White House or campaign staff.  They call it “plausible deniability.”

President Obama does not have to know to be culpable. He is the President of the United States, and he is just as responsible to the American people as his acting IRS director was to him. Regardless of the President’s level of personal knowledge regarding any of these scandals, he sets the tone and direction for his administration.

Obama has created a national malaise over the course of his presidency: a spirit of division rather than unity, an attitude of “us against them” rather than mutual cooperation.

Of the three current scandals the President is only directly responsible for one, that we know of—Benghazi. He should have been on the job and clearly was not. Whether or not he knew of any of the rest—the IRS targeting, the AP records snatch—he is stuck with the ramifications of a corrupt, slipshod administration he created.

Barack Obama is responsible for all of it. He is the president.

Now Holder: Ew, That Smell…

Okay, this sounded like a good idea, as they say, at the time. The IRS releases an apology admitting that certain ‘low-level employees’ in Cincinnati may have gone… well, did go outside of policy and… um, well… um… targeted… okay targeted, a few groups that have, like, ‘tea’ or ‘party’ or ‘constitution’ or ‘better’ or ‘America’ or ‘flag’ or… well, everybody who bought a Rush Limbaugh tie during the 1990s.

Okay? Apology made. Then, dang it, the guys who were targeted rejected the danged apology! Which everybody knows you cannot do! You have to accept the apology automatically. Because it’s magnanimous and… fair and… and… and… they’re stupid Republicans, dang it!

Still this could work out because everybody knows the tea parties are, like, the Taliban wing of politics or something. They’re like Sarah Palin dangerous. Who shoots caribou. D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S.

So the press will probably take a pass. Right. Should work out.

Then that maggot-breath Holder at the Justice Department raids AP! And he may have monitored other reporters!!! And the media are MAJOR ROYALLY PO’d. Benghazi. IRS. DOJ. I mean these guys are ticked!

Now it comes out that it wasn’t only Cincinnati and it wasn’t only ‘tea’ and ‘party’ and ‘constitution’ and ‘flag’ but ‘Jews’ and ‘evangelicals’ and… and… well, non-Kenyan Americans.

Whew! Good thing the president didn’t know anything about any of this and is outraged and shocked and was out of town—yeah, that’s it, out of town—but will get to the bottom of it. Someday. Soon. When he isn’t too busy with… stuff.

VOTE DEMOCRAT. 2014. C’MON YOU GUYS. GIMME AN O! GIMME A B…

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Democrats: Is You Is or Is You Ain’t Our Leader

Oh, knock it off with the race-sensitive BS! It is a great Louis Jordan tune. And it is the question every “establishment” Democrat in Washington is asking of Barack Obama tonight.

When Lyndon Johnson heard about the Watergate scandal, he is said to have said, and I paraphrase, If them old boys worked for me, they’d be taking a drive out on the ranch one afternoon, and they’d drive off a cliff. Them tapes would be in the trunk.

Just a story; I have no idea if it’s true.

But regardless of your opinion of Lyndon Johnson—mine is not high—you have to say he knew who was in charge of his administration. That was before we didn’t know “what is is,” or that “there is no there there.”

That Hoover running up and down the hallways isn’t the only vacuum in the White House… and the Democrats are worried.

Politico via Drudge [excerpted]:

The town is turning on President Obama – and this is very bad news for this White House…

Obama’s aloof mien and holier-than-thou rhetoric have left him with little reservoir of good will, even among Democrats. And the press, after years of being accused of being soft on Obama while being berated by West Wing aides on matters big and small, now has every incentive to be as ruthless as can be.

This White House’s instinctive petulance, arrogance and defensiveness have all worked together to isolate Obama at a time when he most needs a support system. “It feel like they don’t know what they’re here to do,” a former senior Obama administration official said. “When there’s no narrative, stuff like this consumes you.”

Republican outrage is predictable, maybe even manageable. Democratic outrage is not.

The dam of solid Democratic solidarity has collapsed… [Read]

Well, probably not collapsed collapsed. That probably depends on what is is there there, or not there there.

AP Hacks Hacked?

This is rich. That loud plaintive wale you heard yesterday was your neighborhood Associated Press hack, screaming at the top of his/her lungs because the Obama administration has violated their First Amendment rights. Maybe. I mean it is Barack Obama, so maybe it’s just Fox News getting people in a tizzy. Or something. We’ll have to ask Barry, and if he says it’s no biggie, there is no there… Right?

WaPo:

In a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., the AP’s president and chief executive, Gary B. Pruitt, said that the Justice Department sought information beyond what could be justified by any specific probe and demanded that the government return the phone records and destroy all copies.

“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters,” Pruitt wrote to Holder. “These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP’s newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP’s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know.” [Read]

What? Oh, I get it. You guys think Obama can strip law-abiding citizens of their guns, and he won’t come after your words? News Flash: We don’t get to pick and choose which rights are sacred.

Don’t feel good, does it?

Maybe now someone in the mainstream media will grow the balloons to dig deeper into what this administration has really been up to for four and a half years. Wait. First, maybe they should grab a quick primer on Muslim terrorists who attack our diplomatic outposts and kill Americans. Might be a story there.

Let’s see. That’s what? Three scandals? Benghazi (that’s the one that happened a long time ago), the IRS has expanded from bean counters in Cincinnati to the D.C. bureau, and now Eric Holder is mining Associated Press phone records for heavy breathers… And there are rumors of more to come.

It has been 40 years to the week since Watergate. Isn’t it time Hollywood remakes All the President’s Men? That’ll make a cool distraction. Uh… second thought maybe not. People may realize Nixon looks like a public nuisance compared to Barack Obama.

Just when will the U.S. media realize that gangster politics doesn’t end with a little tea party chapter in Waxahachie? Chicago hasn’t produced a more corrupt group of beer truck gunners than Obama and his cronies, since the 1920s.

Matt Drudge’s tweet yesterday should be fair warning to media outlets, sources and bloggers alike.

Warning to reporters and sources: Assume all your communications are being monitored. Time to move back to the parking garage #longhotsummer

From the day Regular Right Guy blogged his first criticism of the Obama White House, I considered myself hacked. No enemy is too insignificant for these thugs, and that’s who the American people are to them: the enemy.

Not a hobby for wimps or RINO sissies.

PS— I may have been wrong about that whole impeachment thingy.

File Under: Barry’s Kids

HT Drudge, Salon (Image)

White House Enemies List: The Sequel?

The IRS-Tea Party scandal is no longer the IRS-Tea Party scandal; it now appears to be the IRS-Obama Enemies scandal.

Office pool: How many times this week will the lefty media say “Nixonian”?

As information continues to roll in it is becoming clear that the near-autonomous arm of the U.S. Treasury Department has been targeting, not only tea party groups, but virtually anyone who has spoken out against the government.

And at least one high-ranking IRS official knew about  attempts to target what is looking more and more like a Democrat enemies list, and may have even lied to Congress about it.

Big Note: The inquisition extended to pro-Israel groups, as well.

Those who regularly read Mojo are aware that we have maintained all along that President Obama has anti-Israel-anti-Jewish leanings. Not because of any personal knowledge on our part, but because of his anti-Semitic Black Liberation Theology religious doctrine. No one stays in a church for 20 years who doesn’t believe what the pastor is preaching, especially while claiming an intimate friendship with that pastor.

The blogosphere and news services are literally boiling this morning with sidebars to this. The Daily Caller is rebooting its story from a year ago that someone inside IRS illegally released confidential donor information on a contribution Mitt Romney made to the National Organization for Marriage.

Now WSJ and Reuters are leading with a new timeline: this apparently began during the 2010 midterms. No! No! No! You did not say that! Next thing you know, Republicans are going to claim this had something to do with electing Democrats and stuff. Republicans “politicize” everything.

Hillary Clinton must be relieved. Benghazi is the kind of ugly she can’t cover up with a tacky pantsuit, and suddenly no one’s looking at her.

Get ready for the Full Alinsky on this one, folks. If this goes anywhere outside of the IRS—and, c’mon, we all know it does—Obama may have to pull David Axelrod out of mothballs.

HT Drudge