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A misfired email from an Internal Revenue Service employee in Ohio alerted officials in Washington that conservative groups were being targeted a full year earlier than previously acknowledged, Fox News confirms.

Transcripts from interviews held with IRS employees in Cincinnati show that managers in Washington knew about the heightened scrutiny put on Tea Party groups applying for tax-exempt status in July 2010.

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According to the report, Hofacre was asked to summarize her initial findings and send it via email to a small group of IRS workers, including a few in the D.C. tax-exempt unit. Mistakenly, she sent the email to everybody in the Washington IRS Exempt Organizations Rulings and Agreements unit.

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Purplehood wrote:I just don't know. I am absolutely convinced that someone set him up for the Presidency and is pulling his strings.

It had taken me less than six months to learn Indonesia's language, its customs, and its legends. I had survived chicken pox, measles, and the sting of my teachers' bamboo switches.
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The world was violent, I was learning, unpredictable and often cruel. My grandparents knew nothing of such a world, I decided; there was no point in disturbing them with questions they couldn't answer.

VMI77 wrote:

RoyGBiv wrote:

Purplehood wrote:

sjfcontrol wrote:

RoyGBiv wrote:Why is Obama so bad?

Here's a Democrat opinion I can agree with...

"...... Obama doesn’t know how to be president. He doesn’t know how the world works. He’s incompetent. He’s amateur!” (Bill) Clinton said

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06 ... book-says/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Anybody that thinks Obama is merely incompetent is underestimating him. He is evil. His goal is "to fundamentally change America", and he's well on his way to being successful.

I totally agree. I have always said the man is intelligent, but (at the least) misguided.
Nothing that has happened since he miraculously jumped into the world-stage has changed my assumption that he is indeed some incarnation of the Manchurian Candidate.

Look at how he runs his administration.
From hardly ever attending his PDB in person, to starting his day at 10:45 AM, to sleeping through Benghazi to never (hardly) meeting with his cabinet or Congress. These are all very clear (to me) signs of an administrator that is in over his head... they speak directly to incompetence.

How do you vote for a man for POTUS that has never managed anything more complicated than a community of poor folks (as a volunteer?) and hides his academic and legal records from public view.?

Just because he's had some success pushing his agenda does not indicate competence for the job of POTUS. Obama's incompetence is exceeded only by Americas stupidity for giving such a blatantly unqualified person the job.

I don't know, the examples you give for incompetence could be interpreted as indifference. He doesn't care about any of these things because they are irrelevant to his agenda. I think it may depend on what you measure his competence against. If measured in the traditional sense he may look incompetent, but measured against his success at "transforming" the country, he looks downright evil and effective.

Purplehood wrote:I hope you aren't under the impression that I am saying that the current POTUS is doing a good job in the position.

Purplehood wrote:

sjfcontrol wrote:

RoyGBiv wrote:Why is Obama so bad?

Here's a Democrat opinion I can agree with...

"...... Obama doesn’t know how to be president. He doesn’t know how the world works. He’s incompetent. He’s amateur!” (Bill) Clinton said

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06 ... book-says/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Anybody that thinks Obama is merely incompetent is underestimating him. He is evil. His goal is "to fundamentally change America", and he's well on his way to being successful.

I totally agree. I have always said the man is intelligent, but (at the least) misguided.
Nothing that has happened since he miraculously jumped into the world-stage has changed my assumption that he is indeed some incarnation of the Manchurian Candidate.

"...... Obama doesn’t know how to be president. He doesn’t know how the world works. He’s incompetent. He’s amateur!” (Bill) Clinton said

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06 ... book-says/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

mamabearCali wrote:interesting.....they are saying that by making an opening statement that Lerner waived her fourth amendment rights.......

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/d ... ml?hp=t3_3

Dave2 wrote:I'm watching the IRS hearings, and Mr. George just said, in so many words, that the targeting isn't political because conservatives might be terrorists. Seriously.

Jaguar wrote:I also believe the IRS has become too powerful. It can ruin lives in many different ways. I believe it is no longer capable of being ran as independent from politics, and whoever is in charge gets to decide who lives and who gets hoisted on the pike of the agency. By who is in charge, I am not talking about the POTUS – I mean those who makes day to day decisions on behalf of the agency from simple field agent auditing their “customers”, to the division directors, to the director of the IRS, to the Secretary of the Treasurer. It only takes one of these people being corrupt to ruin someone’s life and as we have seen, when a person has to spend tens of thousands of dollars to defend their political donations from the IRS, the well dries up for the agency’s political opponents.

Dismantle the IRS, repeal the 16th Amendment, implement the FairTax. http://www.fairtax.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

mojo84 wrote:I still think there is a strong possibility both parties will take this serious. Now whether or not the Administration or some of the thugs he appointed, that is a different story. I think the congress has to for a couple of reasons. If they don't, there constituents could fall under the same tyrannical oppression in the future and they don't want that. They also are seeing the presidents house of cards crumbling and I have a feeling they will feel the need to distance themselves from him and his band of thugs. Once all the details possible from the AP, Fox News, IRS and Benghazi scandals surface, Obama, Clinton and the rest of them will be so politically tainted no one will want to come to their defense.

Maybe I am just wishful thinking but I sure hope something good comes of all this.

Fourth Amendment – Protection from unreasonable search and seizure.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.


Fifth Amendment – due process, double jeopardy, self-incrimination, eminent domain.

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

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Judge Jeanine Pirro gives Obama a thorough sandblasting. However, his pants are still on fire.

Jaguar wrote:T. Coleman Andrews was an IRS Commissioner for 3 years. He had the following things to say about income taxes after resigning.

"Congress went beyond merely enacting an income tax law and repealed Article IV of the Bill of Rights, by empowering the tax collector to do the very things from which that article says we were to be secure. It opened up our homes, our papers and our effects to the prying eyes of government agents and set the stage for searches of our books and vaults and for inquiries into our private affairs whenever the tax men might decide, even though there might not be any justification beyond mere cynical suspicion."

"The income tax is bad because it has robbed you and me of the guarantee of privacy and the respect for our property that were given to us in Article IV of the Bill of Rights. This invasion is absolute and complete as far as the amount of tax that can be assessed is concerned. Please remember that under the Sixteenth Amendment, Congress can take 100% of our income anytime it wants to. As a matter of fact, right now it is imposing a tax as high as 91%. This is downright confiscation and cannot be defended on any other grounds."

"The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men."

"The income tax is fulfilling the Marxist prophecy that the surest way to destroy a capitalist society is by steeply graduated taxes on income and heavy levies upon the estates of people when they die."

"As matters now stand, if our children make the most of their capabilities and training, they will have to give most of it to the tax collector and so become slaves of the government. People cannot pull themselves up by the bootstraps anymore because the tax collector gets the boots and the straps as well."

"The income tax is bad because it is oppressive to all and discriminates particularly against those people who prove themselves most adept at keeping the wheels of business turning and creating maximum employment and a high standard of living for their fellow men."

"I believe that a better way to raise revenue not only can be found but must be found because I am convinced that the present system is leading us right back to the very tyranny from which those, who established this land of freedom, risked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to forever free themselves..."

End the IRS!!! - - - http://www.fairtax.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;