Discussion for article #231458
Surprise, surprise, surprise! Go back to stealing cars, issa. It was the only thing you were good at!
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You mean we’ll have to see some other ugly,repulsive face besides that of Darrel Issa shoving himself
in front of the camera just to brow beat witnesses? Heaven help us! The sky is falling. Not to worry,
Chaffetz is good at grandstanding. Between him and ms. Lindsay they can turn anything into a fiasco.
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Just curious - has a Darryl Issa probe ever turned up anything of import?
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Hey Issa, the White House has two words for you:
Meep, meep!
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The tea party groups apparently got extra scrutiny because they were popping up like toad stools after a long rain in Obama’s first term, and the Citizens United ruling may have assisted them in hiding who was funding them. Maybe that’s why they were treated differently from liberal groups, which were in what the IRS called a “historical” category, apparently meaning that the IRS was already familiar with them and how they operated. The tea party was a completely new phenomenon.
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You mean, similar to the Benghazi “investigations” by the GOP itself, there was no “there” there??
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And that’s our parting words to Issa, “There, there.”
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The losing of the emails is bad, otherwise it seems like a witch hunt for political gain. As this case always ignores all the others targeted aside from conservative groups. They get the focus because they are always persecuted…or something.
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Has anyone here ever " applied" for an IRS approval to file their 1040 ?
I doubt it.
The reality is… NOONE had to apply for 501c4 status. Like ALL filings, they just get filed…if the IRS thinks you filed inappropriately, they notify you.
It happened to me when we filed our Corporate tax return as a C corporation when is had previously been filed as an S corp.
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Ninth time in a row.
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Question - was Darrell Issa really good at stealing cars, he was caught.
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Merry Christmas a$$hole!
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Yet another example of the Republican commitment to fiscal conservatism … I would love someone to crunch the numbers on this one and see just how much Issa’s wild goose chases have cost the country. They sure haven’t resulted in any successes … as in none! Well, unless you consider how many of us actually learned how to pronounce Benghazi from all of the screaming of the name from the rooftops and the depth of Fox News.
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That was absolutely my first thought as well…Couldn’t have been too good if we all know about it.
Unless some new non-scandal pops up, and there could always be one out there, it’s going to be tough for the GOP to continue to get any mileage out of these existing non-scandals. Probes into Benghazi!! have been going on for over two years now and they’ve yet to find any wrongdoing. The same is the case with the IRS. It’s been nearly two years since questions surfaced and it’s been a big goose egg. The same goes for Fast & Furious, where it’s been 6-7 years of fruitless investigations. Just about the only people who care and are even listening anymore is the hardcore GOP base. Everyone else has moved on. And if the administration continues to oversee fabulous economic news while also progressing forward through Executive Orders, the GOP might actually find themselves fighting for attention and some semblance of relevance.
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TruLY Embarrassing FOR LIBtards to SEE thIS REPort FULLY indiCts OHbUMMer and the IRS over THE ACt OF TArgeting RIGht wiNG GROups and THEN deleTING the EVidence OR not FULLy testIFYING truTHFULLy so that ISSa’s REPOrt COULDn’t FIND anY obVIOUS wrOng-DOing. wow, haS YOU no SHAME, liBTARDS???
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Once.
eh, EH!?!?!?! See what I did there?
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Yeah, gotta keep those FAKE SCANDALS going as long as possible.
The scandal was definitely real, but it was a Fake “White House” scandal. It had ZERO to do with the White House. But people at the IRS definitely did not act appropriately. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administrations findings were:
“The IRS used inappropriate criteria that identified for review Tea Party and other organizations applying for tax-exempt status based upon their names or policy positions instead of indications of potential political campaign intervention. Ineffective management: 1) allowed inappropriate criteria to be developed and stay in place for more than 18 months, 2) resulted in substantial delays in processing certain applications, and 3) allowed unnecessary information requests to be issued. Although the processing of some applications with potential significant political campaign intervention was started soon after receipt, no work was completed on the majority of these applications for 13 months… For the 296 total political campaign intervention applications [reviewed in the audit] as of December 17, 2012, 108 had been approved, 28 were withdrawn by the applicant, none had been denied, and 160 were open from 206 to 1,138 calendar days (some for more than three years and crossing two election cycles)… Many organizations received requests for additional information from the IRS that included unnecessary, burdensome questions (e.g., lists of past and future donors).”
Also, the IRS admitted to improper document leaks, and paid $50k in damages.
But NONE of this had ANYTHING to do with the White House. And that’s what Issa was saying.
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The emails were recovered, but this was definitely a scandal at the IRS, just not at the White House. Conservative groups were not only targeted, they were even held up ridiculous amounts of time and asked questions that were inane. I can’t stand conservative groups like that, but targeting them the most is definitely not cool, and the IRS admitted to wrongdoing big time, including paying damages for improper document leaks.
Issa wanted it linked to the White House, and that is just dumb. This needs to be headline.
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