"Mistakes Were Made"

[OCinBuffalo]

"President Biden"

 

God, I hope not.

Which....is the other side of that coin.

 

But, it is as I say: even that is still better than letting them get away with it, long term.

Edited July 23, 2013 by OCinBuffalo

[DC Tom]

Which....is the other side of that coin.

 

But, it is as I say: even that is still better than letting them get away with it, long term.

 

Has there been a VP since George Bush who's job responsibilities didn't amount to "assassination insurance"?

[Jauronimo]

Has there been a VP since George Bush who's job responsibilities didn't amount to "assassination insurance"?

Dan Quayle would be probably have a thing or two to say about that if he wasn't already so confused.

[3rdnlng]

Has there been a VP since George Bush who's job responsibilities didn't amount to "assassination insurance"?

 

Dick Cheney was a very competent and widely experienced VP. Some Many may not have liked him, but I wouldn't have had a problem with him taking over. Now with his heart problems, his successor at one time could have been Pelosi and that would have been disastrous.

[IDBillzFan]

Has there been a VP since George Bush who's job responsibilities didn't amount to "assassination insurance"?

 

Whose.

[DC Tom]

Whose.

 

!@#$.

[Nanker]

it happens

[B-Man]

!@#$.

 

"Mistakes Were Made"

[Chef Jim]

!@#$.

 

I've been noticing this more lately with you. Is senilty setting in?

[Koko78]

I've been noticing this more lately with you. Is senilty setting in?

 

Mitt Romney's wife has a horse. Some black kid got shot. There's no story here with Tom's alleged typo. This is nothing more than fake outrage manufactured by Faux News' lies.

 

Move along. Look at the shiny bauble.

[B-Man]

Meet William Wilkins : Will the IRS scandal implicate the White House?

 

By James Taranto

 

Have you noticed that the Internal Revenue Service scandal seems to be getting ever closer to the White House? The IRS originally tried to set up "rogue employees in Cincinnati" as fall guys. But in congressional testimony, they revealed that the targeting of dissenting groups was directed from Washington.

 

As Peggy Noonan noted, the Washington supervisor, Carter Hull, last week implicated the IRS's office of chief counsel: "The IRS chief counsel is named William Wilkins. And . . . he is one of only two Obama political appointees in the IRS."

 

Congressional investigators appear to be conducting a very methodical inquiry, working their way up through the IRS hierarchy and not getting out ahead of themselves by making claims not supported by the available evidence. Note, for example, that they have not (yet) claimed Wilkins himself directed the abusive behavior, only his "office." Democrats and their media allies, perhaps deceptively, interpret the investigation's slow progress as a sign that there's nothing to the scandal. But if that's the case, they should be all for a thorough investigation.

 

The latest development, reported by the Daily Caller, is intriguing, albeit only suggestive:

 

 

IRS chief counsel William Wilkins, who was named in House Oversight testimony by retiring IRS agent Carter Hull as one of his supervisors in the improper targeting of conservative groups, met with Obama in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on April 23, 2012. Wilkins' boss, then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, visited the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 24, 2012, according to White House visitor logs.

On April 25, 2012, Wilkins' office sent the exempt organizations determinations unit "additional comments on the draft guidance" for approving or denying tea party tax-exempt applications, according to the IRS inspector general's report.

 

 

As this column has argued before, the higher this scandal goes, the better it is for the country. We say that not because we don't care for Barack Obama--let's be honest, a President Biden would be no bargain either--but because the president can be held accountable if it turns out he or his top aides essentially instructed the IRS to steal the 2012 election. A corrupt administration can be dealt with, as Richard Nixon's was 40 years ago.

 

By contrast, if career IRS employees acted on their own, it means the integrity of American democracy itself is threatened by an out-of-control administrative state. In that case, how to solve the problem is not at all clear.

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323829104578624100873267508.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion

[DC Tom]

Mitt Romney's wife has a horse. Some black kid got shot. There's no story here with Tom's alleged typo. This is nothing more than fake outrage manufactured by Faux News' lies.

 

Move along. Look at the shiny bauble.

 

There was no alleged typo. It was the obstructionist Republicans.

[B-Man]

Records of Christine O’Donnell tax snooping disappear

 

Delaware state officials have told Congress that they likely destroyed the computer records that would show when and how often they accessed Christine O'Donnell’s personal tax records and acknowledged that a newspaper article was used as the sole justification for snooping into the former GOP Senate candidate’s tax history.

 

The revelations to Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office came Tuesday as the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration, the government’s chief watchdog for the Internal Revenue Service, formally reopened its investigation into the matter by re-interviewing Ms. O'Donnell

 

Read more: http://www.washingto.../#ixzz2ZylCwIgT

 

 

 

 

 

 

The spirit of Rose Mary Woods lives on !

[DC Tom]

Records of Christine O’Donnell tax snooping disappear

 

 

Delaware state officials have told Congress that they likely destroyed the computer records that would show when and how often they accessed Christine O'Donnell’s personal tax records and acknowledged that a newspaper article was used as the sole justification for snooping into the former GOP Senate candidate’s tax history.

 

The revelations to Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office came Tuesday as the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration, the government’s chief watchdog for the Internal Revenue Service, formally reopened its investigation into the matter by re-interviewing Ms. O'Donnell

 

Read more: http://www.washingto.../#ixzz2ZylCwIgT

 

 

 

 

 

 

The spirit of Rose Mary Woods lives on !

 

 

That article doesn't make any sense. Whoever wrote seems to be accusing state officials of deleting federal records?

[3rdnlng]

That article doesn't make any sense. Whoever wrote seems to be accusing state officials of deleting federal records?

 

No, the article clearly states that the State of Delaware deleted their own records pertaining to their search of Christine O'Donnell's federal tax return. What is disturbing is that the State claimed they didn't access them until 3-20-2010 when an article appeared in a newspaper stating that O'Donnell had a federal tax lien against her. The Inspector who informed O'Donnell of an improper search of her records told her that her files were breached on 3-9-2010, the same day she announced her candidacy.

[OCinBuffalo]

Meet William Wilkins : Will the IRS scandal implicate the White House?

 

By James Taranto

 

Have you noticed that the Internal Revenue Service scandal seems to be getting ever closer to the White House? The IRS originally tried to set up "rogue employees in Cincinnati" as fall guys. But in congressional testimony, they revealed that the targeting of dissenting groups was directed from Washington.

 

As Peggy Noonan noted, the Washington supervisor, Carter Hull, last week implicated the IRS's office of chief counsel: "The IRS chief counsel is named William Wilkins. And . . . he is one of only two Obama political appointees in the IRS."

 

Congressional investigators appear to be conducting a very methodical inquiry, working their way up through the IRS hierarchy and not getting out ahead of themselves by making claims not supported by the available evidence. Note, for example, that they have not (yet) claimed Wilkins himself directed the abusive behavior, only his "office." Democrats and their media allies, perhaps deceptively, interpret the investigation's slow progress as a sign that there's nothing to the scandal. But if that's the case, they should be all for a thorough investigation.

 

The latest development, reported by the Daily Caller, is intriguing, albeit only suggestive:

 

 

IRS chief counsel William Wilkins, who was named in House Oversight testimony by retiring IRS agent Carter Hull as one of his supervisors in the improper targeting of conservative groups, met with Obama in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on April 23, 2012. Wilkins' boss, then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, visited the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 24, 2012, according to White House visitor logs.

On April 25, 2012, Wilkins' office sent the exempt organizations determinations unit "additional comments on the draft guidance" for approving or denying tea party tax-exempt applications, according to the IRS inspector general's report.

 

 

As this column has argued before, the higher this scandal goes, the better it is for the country. We say that not because we don't care for Barack Obama--let's be honest, a President Biden would be no bargain either--but because the president can be held accountable if it turns out he or his top aides essentially instructed the IRS to steal the 2012 election. A corrupt administration can be dealt with, as Richard Nixon's was 40 years ago.

 

By contrast, if career IRS employees acted on their own, it means the integrity of American democracy itself is threatened by an out-of-control administrative state. In that case, how to solve the problem is not at all clear.

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323829104578624100873267508.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion

Another liberal(s) destroyed by failing to factor in a timestamp, this time on their own logs? Now that would be hilarious. This is like what happens on crime shows, when they run out of ideas: they just take the old ones and change them a little Perhaps it is as I've heard many a cop say "the truth is most criminals get caught because they are dumb, and they make it easy for us." If that is so, then, why would these criminals be any different?

 

I mean really: these are the same people that stood their boss next to a convicted felon for a photo op. These are the same people who approached Obamacare the way they did. These are the same people who thought they could get away with all kinds of stuff, and have been busted over and over.

 

This fits their pattern of idiot behavior, it just turns out that this time it's criminal, as well as idiot, behavior.

[B-Man]

NOT-SO-PHONY SCANDAL UPDATE:

 

Exclusive: IRS watchdog reviewing claims of improper audit of Tea Party farmer.

 

“The IRS’s internal watchdog is reviewing allegations that the agency improperly audited a Tea Party owner of a small Virginia farm whose repeated clashes with a local environmental group and the county over zoning laws have made her a cause celebre for property-rights advocates.”

[Nanker]

Liberals are so against profiling - until it comes to a Tea Party or other conservative group.

[boyst]

NOT-SO-PHONY SCANDAL UPDATE:

 

Exclusive: IRS watchdog reviewing claims of improper audit of Tea Party farmer.

 

“The IRS’s internal watchdog is reviewing allegations that the agency improperly audited a Tea Party owner of a small Virginia farm whose repeated clashes with a local environmental group and the county over zoning laws have made her a cause celebre for property-rights advocates.”

The right to farm issue is a freaking monkey on the back of a tick in a dark lit corner of this country. There are becoming more and more silly issues with selling your apples at your driveway stand or taking them to a market to sell them. My local Farmers Market is a good example, wanting to encourage a price cieling for products is not cool and keeps me away from there.

[3rdnlng]

The right to farm issue is a freaking monkey on the back of a tick in a dark lit corner of this country. There are becoming more and more silly issues with selling your apples at your driveway stand or taking them to a market to sell them. My local Farmers Market is a good example, wanting to encourage a price cieling for products is not cool and keeps me away from there.

 

Am I misunderstanding you? Look at your signature line.