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Republicans should be happy the IRS lost some emails, it allows them to exercise that most Christian of impulses â bearing false witness. That is what a good Christian does correct?
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Thank goodness heâs not up in arms about wasting taxpayer dollars on joke legislation because Iâd love to see the âSteve Stockman is an Imbecile actâ get a vote. The law would be simple; in order to address fellow congressman on the floor of the House or Senate, one must begin with the invocation; âTo my esteemed colleagues and the Fucking Imbecile from Texas district 36.â
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So this is what will be his âlegacy?â - What a remarkable legislative record, congressman!
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You said it better (and in a more entertaining way) than I did.
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You could have shortened that headline to âSteve Stockman Trollsâ and been just as accurate.
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Electing Steve Stockman and having him waste tax payer dollars by introducing stupid bills.
Itâs called throwing good money after bad.
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Those glasses make you look stupid Steve.
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Missing from this, youâll notice, is the Bush Administration excuse âWe were using a separate system of books to evade federal reporting requirements.â
The only redeeming aspect of the republican House majority wasting time on stuff like this is that they wonât be wasting time on even worse things.
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Slateâs John Dickerson can go eat a bag of salted dicks. The IRS doesnât require you to keep emails. The IRS hasnât lost anyoneâs tax records.
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stupid bagger forget âfiled with Iraqi WMDsâ
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The real #1 reason:
The less-insane Republicans kicked my ass in the primaries and took my documents from me
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The standard deduction should just be doubled, and millions of Americans would be instantly unburdened from wasteful receipt storage. Other tax payers could easily lighten their own loads by just paying their taxes already, instead of making a hobby of laundering every conceivable personal item and entertainment cost to a deductible business expense.
The number one excuseâBENGHAZI!!!111!!!
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Hell yes! Was just reading another great Michael Tomasky piece in which he explains that government computers are so ridiculously outdated that itâs not at all uncommon for computers to crash, for emails to get lost, etc. He explained that because these organizations are already grossly underfunded, these things happen all the time like when the Bush administration lost 5 million emails during the US Attorneys scandal. He also went on to explain that Lernerâs computer crashed about two weeks before she was even alerted to any issues at the office in Cincinnati, so she wouldâve had to have destroyed all her emails on the âscandalâ before she knew there was any scandal.
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The IRS only requires you to keep records for the tax years for which you can still be audited. Namely, the three most recent years that you have filed. Older than that only if there is an audit in progress. So for equivalency thereâs only a sniff of a whine of a complaint over lost emails 3 years or more recent.
But itâs like the security at embassies. The GOP takes away the money to do things right, then when things go wrong, they blame the staff.
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I know I always crash my hard drives a year before anyone requests to see something that may have been on it.
Itâs like witchcraft or some such shit.
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And leaving aside the resource issue, the reality of IT in large organizations is that you buy PCâs in big batches that come out of the same production run, meaning that any quality control problem with the computersâ parts will affect multiple machines from the same batch.
But, in Republican world, nothing is mundane. Everything is evidence of a conspiracy against them, because, after all, theyâre the real victims.
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Wingnut Welfare is going to pass Stockman by.
Stockmanâs list has all the panache of an angry 9th grader.