Mr. Noscandal

*sings*

I met a man Noscandal
And he'd dance for you
In Gucci shoes

With greying hair and starchy shirt
And sharp-pressed slacks
The IRS blues!

He would tell such lies
Tell such lies!
With a snarky little frown.

Mr. Noscandal...
Mr. Noscandal...
Mr. Noscandal...dance!


"Judge Awards $3.5 Million Settlement to Tea Party Groups for Obama IRS Targeting Scandal."

Imagine My Shocked Face

"Obama Admin Will NOT Prosecute Lois Lerner For Contempt."

Obama Might Be Crap At Running a Country...

...but he's an expert at stealing elections.

A new study by the American Enterprise Institute -- "Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence From The Tea Party Movement" -- finds that the movement boosted Republican turnout by three to six million votes in the 2010 election. This effect was blunted in the 2012 election, though, because growth in the movement stalled.

That slowdown happened, co-author and AEI economist Stan Veuger notes, at the same time that the IRS began coming down hard on these groups. He argues in a RealClearMarkets.com article that this most likely had a major impact in the 2012 election.

"The founders, members, and donors of new Tea Party groups found themselves incapable of exercising their constitutional rights, and the Tea Party's impact was muted in the 2012 election cycle," Veuger said.

So Not Only Did the IRS Target Conservative GROUPS For Political Speech...

...they also targeted individual taxpayers who donated to those groups, as many as 10% of those taxpayers.

And the taxpayers were targeted from the donor lists of the conservative groups, which the IRS demanded.

Nosiree, not a smidgen of corruption at the IRS.

House Oversight Committee Holds Lois Lerner In Contempt

Next stop, a vote in the House of Representatives itself.

House Refers Lois Lerner For Prosecution

Eric Holder will take it under advisement, no doubt.

Imagine My Shocked Face

IRS agents’ testimony: NO progressive groups were targeted by IRS.

IRS agents testified before Congress that the agency’s political targeting did not apply to progressive groups as Democrats and the media have claimed, according to a bombshell new staff report prepared by the House Oversight Committee chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa.

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Good Riddance...

...to bad rubbish.

Eric Holder, the disgraced Attorney General of the United States, has indicated he is stepping down in 2014.

I'll believe it when I see it. I hope he's got a good law team of his own, because if the Republicans take the Senate in the 2014 elections, he's likely to face arrest over Fast & Furious and the IRS scandal.

h/t Sipsey Street Irregulars.

Have YOU Pissed the ATF Off?

Expect to be targeted by the IRS, then, at least as long as ATF and IRS are controlled by the Obama adminstration.

Chicago smash-mouth politics at the highest levels of government. Liberals used to lose their fucking minds just contemplating Richard Nixon doing this to his enemies.

Criticise the God-King...

...face the wrath of the IRS.

Newly uncovered IRS documents show the agency flagged political groups based on the content of their literature, raising concerns specifically about "anti-Obama rhetoric," inflammatory language and "emotional" statements made by non-profits seeking tax-exempt status.

The internal 2011 documents, obtained by USA TODAY, list 162 groups by name, with comments by Internal Revenue Service lawyers in Washington raising issues about their political, lobbying and advocacy activities. In 21 cases, those activities were characterized as "propaganda."

The list provides the most specific public accounting to date of which groups were targeted for extra scrutiny and why. The IRS has not publicly identified the groups, repeatedly citing a provision of the tax code prohibiting it from releasing tax return information.

More than 80% of the organizations on the 2011 "political advocacy case" list were conservative, but the effort to police political activity also ensnared at least 11 liberal groups as of November 2011, including Progressives United, Progress Texas and Delawareans for Social and Economic Justice.

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