IRS inappropriately targets Tea Party, White House blames Bush

[Guynemer]

Just want to say that Darrell Issa is pretty awesome and my favorite dude on the Hill.

Oh, honey.

[Dinner]

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/20/18379393-white-house-aides-learned-of-irs-details-in-april-but-didnt-tell-obama?lite

BTW the agency head knew about the IRS complaints in April but never informed the President or anyone outside the agency. DD is wrong yet again.

[Dinner]

Issa is one of our local corrupt clowns who routinely uses the powers of his office to enrich himself including moving a whole freeway project so that the land he owns is right next to it and having the Feds pay for tens of millions of upgrades on his land to make it easier to develop it and make money at the taxpayer's expense. The sooner he is out of office the better. The 49th Congressional district is also gerrymandered to hell and back again designed to pick up red areas in three different counties but avoid blue areas. It's a simple of everything that is wrong in Congress and how gerrymandering undermines democracy.

[MrFun]

I like how your "news source" uses the word Teapublican. You display your biases proudly, without a hint of irony.

Unlike you and others on here, I don't have any pretensions of being unbiased.

[MRT144]

seriously, the mr fun bullying has to stop. I've been 5 starring his **** for months

[DinoDoc]

BTW the agency head knew about the IRS complaints in April but never informed the President or anyone outside the agency. DD is wrong yet again.

Was Jay Carney lying to the press again?

Monday, May 20: A senior White House official confirmed to POLITICO that Treasury Department staffers told White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler the inspector general report was nearing completion during the week of April 22.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney originally acknowledged that the counsel’s office had been told of the investigation during a press briefing last Monday. But Carney didn’t explicitly say Ruemmler had learned that conservative groups were targeted and how they were singled out.

Later, during the White House briefing, Carney told reporters that some staff in the counsel’s office were told of the report — and others nearing completion — a week earlier, on April 16.

Ruemmler did inform chief of staff Denis McDonough’s office of the investigation, Carney said, and other senior staff were also told of the report. Carney wouldn’t say who those other staffers were, but did say there were communications between White House and Treasury Department staff ahead of the first news reports of the IRS investigation 10 days ago.

The White House’s shifting IRS account

You really are an example of the new Admin mantra of intentional ignorance.

[Tupac Shakur]

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2...ell-obama?lite

BTW the agency head knew about the IRS complaints in April but never informed the President or anyone outside the agency. DD is wrong yet again.

The very article you linked to says that White House officials (including the President's chief of staff) knew about the abuses by IRS officials in targeting conservative groups by late-April.

It's no surprise that OIAW, but this was a good one.

[regexcellent]

seriously, the mr fun bullying has to stop. I've been 5 starring his **** for months

The "bullying" will stop when he starts making interesting posts. His threads are garbage and his contributions to other people's threads demonstrate a profound lack of capacity. This combined with his aspergers-like obsession with hating Republicans and gay issues create a perfect storm of awful posting.

edit: and that's not even getting started on his tendency to regurgitate facebook memes

[MRT144]

Act like a bunch of grown adults and leave him alone if he annoys you so much

[regexcellent]

As in, rate his threads 1 star, put him on ignore, and move on, yes. I'm way ahead of you.

[kentonio]

Republican witch-hunts have become really ****ing boring recently. We've gone from blowjobs and Kenyan Muslims to embassy security details and tax policy. Is this seriously the best they can come up with?

[molly bloom]

MrFun's political debating skills consist of copy-pasting the latest meme on Being Liberal's facebook fan page.

As opposed to what ? Your regurgitation of whatever half-baked gobbet of monetarist garbage you can spew up ?

Or drivel about how wealthy South Africa and Rhodesia were BEFORE the black Africans took power ?


Your analysis of 20th Century southern African politics & history had all the depth of the meniscus on a particularly shallow teaspoon of water.

That's because he's a moron who never posts anything valuable.

Mr Pot prepares to boil the kettle....

[molly bloom]

his aspergers-like obsession with hating Republicans and gay issues create a perfect storm of awful posting.

So how long have you been studying autism ?

Just another example of a lazy arse d!ckwad who grabs whatever medical term he doesn't understand in order to belittle someone.

[regexcellent]

So how long have you been studying autism ?

Just another example of a lazy arse d!ckwad who grabs whatever medical term he doesn't understand in order to belittle someone.

I have always suspected you of being autistic but now I know for certain

[MrFun]

Act like a bunch of grown adults and leave him alone if he annoys you so much