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 | re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 12:31 pm
[quote]Lol. You can't be that dumb, can you?[/quote]
Peter Welch said that the Supreme Court is wrong, sometimes, and just as it was in Dred Scott and had to be overturned, the same thing happened with Citizens United and should be overturned. And we need to look at the "problem" of money in politi...
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 12:26 pm
This guy is comparing [i]Citizens United[/i] to freaking [i]Dred Scot[/i]...
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 12:12 pm
Is every Democratic congressman from Illinois on this committee?...
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 12:02 pm
[quote]The IG acknowledged that these procedures were discussed in Washington, I believe negating Miller's testimony that no one in Washington knew anything about this and it was just two rogue agents in Cincinnati.[/quote]
Thanks....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 12:00 pm
[quote]Had to step out...what happened.
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I missed the exchange as well since I was making lunch. If anybody can give some cliff notes that would be great....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 11:45 am
[quote] As Forbes said, it's hell if they do and hell if they don't. [/quote]
It's only "hell if they do" if they ONLY target groups that hold views contrary to White House policies.
If the IRS had attempted to stop ALL groups then it wouldn't be a scandal. However, they only targeted conservati...
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 11:32 am
#BlameCitizensUnited!...
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 11:31 am
How does this guy represent Madison? He seems pretty level headed....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 11:20 am
[quote]I actually think the guys doing the testifying have held their own.
One thing that was jumped over was what the congressman just said, that Dems were saying they wanted to make sure so called "social welfare" grous are not in fact political groups in disguise.
But then when the IRS sta...
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 11:19 am
Boom!
Only tea party groups had a BOLO for political questions....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 11:03 am
[quote]So, the OIG audit could not determine who the 2 indivudals were in Cincinatti? WTF?[/quote]
It's even further than that. They haven't identified how many people were involved at all because the IRS is stonewalling....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 11:01 am
Wow, the IG just basically said that the IRS is stonewalling....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 10:56 am
Wow, now it isn't just "the government is too big" to effectively police. It's also, "we get too much mail"...
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 10:56 am
It's no longer "absolutely no" to questions about talking about targeting with the White House it's now "not that I remember"...
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 10:54 am
Did Shulman just try to claim that the White House Visitor Log might be doctored or false?...
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| re: Amazon Prime Apps (Mainly for Blu Ray Players) - Do they all suck? - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 10:52 am
[quote]The amazon app on play station 3 is the best interface of any movie apps.
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Really, I've never used the amazon app on my ps3. I do know that it is horrible on the 360 though....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 10:50 am
Nice connection by Jordan between the targeting and Obamacare....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 10:41 am
Jordan has to know something about Shulman talking to the White House because he sure was insistent about asking that question....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 10:23 am
No, it wasn't just conservative groups.
It was pro-Israel, pro-religious, and anti-white house policy groups....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 10:22 am
Stephen Lynch is laying down the wood....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 10:21 am
[quote]gets caught copying from media matters[/quote]
a tax-exempt "social welfare" organization that engages in pretty much nothing but political activity....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 10:14 am
I wish someone would ask the IG what happened on the redacted date that the TIGTA report timeline shows as the beginning of the targeting. ...
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 10:11 am
Boom.
IG "It looks like political activity did occur.... but it's too early to tell"...
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 10:09 am
I don't remember it being an Internal Review just guys from headquarters coming down to review our procedures and what was going on. It definitely wasn't an Internal Review though....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 10:05 am
Shulman, sure didn't want to say that he donated to Democrats and Democratic groups.
I don't think it has any bearing on the matter but he definitely didn't want to answer it....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 9:58 am
[quote]Cummings actually pointing out Shulman lies. [/quote]
The establishment story is changing from "there is no there, there" to "heads should roll"
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 9:53 am
Did Shulman say which day in March he received the preliminary IG audit?
Because he testified before the Committee on March 22, 2012....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 9:48 am
Even though Shulman was appointed by Bush, he is a DNC donor.
The Bush connection is idiotic....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 9:40 am
[quote]all of this will be used in a impeachment hearing so pleading the fifth protects Obama AND a beotch that needs fired ASAP..[/quote]
Obama isn't getting impeached....
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| re: In Game: IRS Targeting Hearings - MFn GIMP on 5/22/13 at 9:29 am
[quote]Unfortunately this is not a trial and the procedures are different. MFGimp please inform us why she was able to do so.
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I actually have no idea. I would assume because Congress can't throw people in jail, or find them guilty of lawbreaking (apart from Contempt of Congress)....
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