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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Obama defends IRS, says tea party targeting didn't happen
2015-07-23
[WASHINGTONTIMES] President B.O. defended the IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
 Tuesday in an interview with "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, saying the tea party-targeting scandal was actually Congress' fault for passing "a crummy law" and that the real problem is the agency doesn't have enough money.

Mr. Obama, who has overseen a series of scandals at the IRS, the Veterans Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and now the Office of Personnel Management, was asked why government didn't seem to be working on his watch.

But the president said he's not to blame, using the IRS as an example of how what went wrong wasn't his fault, and questioning whether tea party groups were ever targeted.

The IRS' internal auditor concluded that the agency did, in fact, target conservative and tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny, and Mr. Obama's own Justice Department is still conducting a criminal investigation into the targeting.

Mr. Obama, though, disputed that version Tuesday, according to the pool news hound traveling with the president.

Mr. Obama said Congress "passed a crummy law" that provided vague guidance to the people who worked at the IRS. And he said that employees implemented the law "poorly and stupidly."

The president went on to say that the "real scandal around the IRS is that they have been so poorly funded that they cannot go after these folks who are deliberately avoiding tax payments."
Posted by:Fred

#15  Campaign on a flat tax. Abolish the IRS. Certainly the cronies have provided enough ammo.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-07-23 18:06  

#14  Great. Now we have the reply. "No, we're not targeting MoveOn and dozens of socialists organizations and individuals than Obama targeted conservative organizations and individuals."
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-07-23 17:45  

#13  I am heartsick. We have a president who lies about everything, an IRS that punishes conservatives, an EPA run amok, and a congress that will not act to oppose them. Why are not articles of impeachment filed against Obama, Koskinen and Mcarthy as a mimimum? Dont tell me that the senate would not convict. Just throw some poop into their end of the pool.
Posted by: irishrageboy   2015-07-23 16:59  

#12  What Darth Vader said.

But please use a small nuke. I live about 60 miles from DC.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2015-07-23 16:08  

#11  And Bill Clinton did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-07-23 15:59  

#10  Ya fire 'em and they just get a better paying job at the (soon-to-be) Obama Foundation.
Posted by: Bobby   2015-07-23 13:36  

#9  More proof that the IRS was harassing conservatives:

In 2010, after receiving Baucus’s letter, the IRS considered the issue of auditing donors to 501(c)(4) organizations, alleging that a 35 percent gift tax would be due on donations in excess of $13,000. The documents show that the IRS wanted to cross-check donor lists from 501(c)(4) organizations against gift tax filings and commence audits against taxpayers based on this information.

A gift tax on contributions to 501(c)(4)’s was considered by most to be a dead letter since the IRS had never enforced the rule after the Supreme Court ruled that such taxes violated the First Amendment. The documents show that the IRS had not enforced the gift tax since 1982.

But then, in February 2011, at least five donors of an unnamed organization were audited.

An examination like that should, at worst, only result in a letter going out to the donor that they need to file a gift tax return. Instead, they use it to justify at least five full-blown field audits, which went against their own thirty-year policy on this issue. Fire everyone involved in those audits.
Posted by: Raj   2015-07-23 11:11  

#8  Defending the indefensible. An Obama trademark.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-07-23 09:53  

#7  Nuke the IRS from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-07-23 09:51  

#6  If congress passed the law, then wouldn't he have had to sign it in?
Posted by: chris   2015-07-23 08:00  

#5  His public statement deny it is probably the trigger for the IRS to start the program back up.
Posted by: Airandee   2015-07-23 06:32  

#4  "Catch me if you can"
Posted by: newc   2015-07-23 01:43  

#3  Of course he's not at fault, f course it's somebody else's fault, what else is new?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2015-07-23 00:29  

#2  Koskinen admitted last month that he took people off the phone lines to spite taxpayers. Fuck both of them for purposefully making my job more difficult.
Posted by: Raj   2015-07-23 00:27  

#1  Quick! I need a Kleenex, I'm getting a nose bleed.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2015-07-23 00:17  

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