[CNN] The Republican congressman spearheading a House probe of alleged Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative political groups accused the head of the IRS on Tuesday of obstructing his panel's investigation.
Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, GOP Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, warned acting IRS chief Daniel Werfel that if "the IRS continues to hinder the committee's investigation in any manner, the committee will be forced to consider use of compulsory process."
Issa did not elaborate on exactly what steps his panel's Republican majority may be prepared to take, though he noted that impeding congressional Sherlocks could result in a prison term of up to five years.
"Obstructing a congressional investigation is a crime," Issa stressed in a letter co-signed by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
"Despite your promise to cooperate fully with congressional investigations, the actions of the IRS under your leadership have made clear to the committee that the agency has no intention of complying completely or promptly with the committee's oversight efforts," Issa said.
"The systematic manner in which the IRS has attempted to delay, frustrate, impede, and obstruct the committee's investigation raises serious concerns about your commitment to full and unfettered congressional oversight," Issa wrote.
Responding to Issa's claim, an IRS spokeswoman told CNN the agency is "aggressively responding to the numerous data requests we've received from Congress."
"We are doing everything we can to fully cooperate with the committees, and we strongly disagree with any suggestions to the contrary," Michelle Eldridge said.
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I would pay good money to see Issa throw IRS guys in jail for obstruction.
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I would pay good money to see Issa throw IRS guys in jail for obstruction.
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I agree, we've all been "paying good money" for years to suffer their swindling, partisan incompetence. Long jail terms would be appropriate, and well earned.
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I bet my brother dinner at RuthChris that NOBODY will see one minute of jail time over this on or before jan 21, 2017 (HildeBeast's Inaugural).
Any takers?
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You're on Billy. I'd rather go Greek at the Athena Pallas over on 22nd St., but I'll go easy on you at Ruth Chris. Mine will be a 12oz rib eye... medium. I gladly pay the freight to meet you. Keep your head down.
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For the record, I'm saying nobody will see the inside of jail cell. It will be either the filet or the rib-eye w/garlic mash. We'll get a table with a nice view of RR airport and a fine chianti!
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Reduce their budget 20-25%; that's the best way to hit them. I'll even endure 2 hour phone calls to the IRS help line if they did that (and it's a great excuse to start drinking early).
On Tuesday, Fox News obtained documents showing that the federal government is initiating a program designed to nudge Americans toward particular behaviors. The Behavioral Insights Team to be formed would work with the White House, as well as the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture, among others. The document, emailed by White House senior adviser on social and behavioral sciences Maya Shenker to a university professor, states, Behavioral sciences can be used to help design public policies that work better, cost less, and help people achieve their goals. White House Shadow Gov't 'Insights Team' now accepting applications. Contact Winston Smith for additional information.
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Under the Yiddish variant, the whole Obumble Administration is the Nudge Squad:
(A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg)
noodge or nudzh or nudge
PRONUNCIATION:
(nooj)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To pester; to nag.
verb intr.: To whine.
noun: One who pesters and annoys with persistent complaining.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Yiddish nudyen (to pester, bore), from Polish nudzic. The word developed a variant spelling 'nudge' under the influence of the English word 'nudge'. A cousin of this word is nudnik (a boring pest). First recorded use: 1960.
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Is the Nudge Squad going to be sequestered, too?
I wonder of some of those folks taking a few days off without pay could expect full-time employment with the Nudge Squad?
Good thing the government has plenty of money!
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I think they've already started ... I've noticed a rash of concern trolls on some of the blogs that I frequent. All very nice, very concerned, just dripping with the milk of human kindness, telling us that we have nothing to fear.
At least, I hope it's the milk of human kindness that they are dripping with. I'm a nice person, and I don't like to make vicious assumptions about the thick whitish fluid dripping from their chins ...
(Hey, NSA guy monitoring Rantburg? I'm going to make fettucini with shrimp and baby tomatoes tonight - there's gonna be extra. If you are hungry around 6:30, stop by and I'll make up a plate for you. You know the address.)
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Will one of the goals be to "nudge" known Tea Party activists into the hereafter so that the Dems can appropriate said Tea Party activists' votes in subsequent elections?
[FOXNEWS] President Obama today makes a rare foray into the South to discuss his proposal to lower corporate tax rates in exchange for a one-time tax penalty to fund increased domestic spending.
Obama is making his pitch for his tax and spending proposal in Chattanooga, Tenn. at an Amazon.com shipping center. The White House says this is an example of the kind of business that can provide middle-income jobs the president says should be the foundation of America's new economy -- if the federal government spends more money on transportation, education and other programs.
Obama ally and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced a hiring spree of 5,000 workers at similar centers and other Amazon.com facilities ahead of the visit. The argument is that these are the jobs of the Obama economy and more federal spending will produce more of them.
But while Obama thinks that the residents of East Tennessee are qualified to pack and ship boxes for Seattle-based Amazon.com, does he think that they are qualified to regulate their own elections like the folks at Amazon HQ?
Obama had a White House meeting Monday with MSNBC's Al Sharpton and leaders of minority groups, including the heads of the Urban League and the National Council of La Raza (The Race).
The topic of discussion was ways in which President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder could work around a Supreme Court decision that decreed the formula for determining which states were covered by the 1965 Voting Rights Act was outdated. The net effect is that the federal government can no longer block states from changing their election laws.
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Huma Abedin, the Hillary Clinton loyalist and wife of embattled New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, will reportedly take an "extended vacation" from her job as the chief of staff of Hillary Clinton's transition team. Hey boss, I need a few days off right when we are supposed to be ramping up.... yes awkward I know.
Politico reports the move is not a formal "leave of absence." But she has been advised to drive carefully.
"Huma is not taking a leave of absence, but she will be taking vacation time in August to support her family during Anthony's campaign," a Weiner campaign source told Politico. "She had always intended to do this." Yes, always.
According to Politico, "it was a loose plan she'd had for weeks, since Hillary Clinton has close to no schedule next month." Weeks, even months, possibly years.
After yet another woman came forward to reveal her sexting experiences with Weiner, Abedin stood by her husband during a press conference last week. But ABC News revealed on Monday that the Clinton camp "increasingly see[s] Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign as an embarrassment and potential liability." History teaches, bad things generally happen when women come forward.
Clinton spokesman Phillipe Reines, who is also a close friend of Abedin's, reportedly tried to convince Huma not to appear in a video filmed this past weekend with Weiner in which the mayoral candidate vowed to go forward with his campaign because New Yorkers don't "quit." She simply wouldn't listen, now we have this night soil all about.
Clinton's transition office is largely believed to be a staging ground for a potential 2016 presidential run and the Clintons have referred to longtime confidante Abedin as their "second daughter." Yes, quite largely believed in fact.
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Hilly "stood by her man" it seems, but would not stand by her "second daughter".
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Let's have an informal poll, I WILL NOT VOTE FOR HILLARY, anyone else?
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Hillary might get an order of Park Bench Foster. I hear it's a killer dessert.
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Yokay, I'll bite - is the plan still for mainstream America = Amerika to be HAPPY when the US goes under OWG-NWO come 2015; or are AMericans = Amerikans supposed to be SAD OR ANGERED + READY FOR REVOLUTION come 2015.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[FOXNEWS] President Obama today makes a rare foray into the South to discuss his proposal to lower corporate tax rates in exchange for a one-time tax penalty to fund increased domestic spending.
Huma Abedin, the Hillary Clinton loyalist and wife of embattled New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, will reportedly take an "extended vacation" from her job as the chief of staff of Hillary Clinton's transition team.
