Impeachment.
Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 11:33 pm
Beeelieve it. Not a good week for Bluegums O'Nixon. I'm sure he will take solace from the fact that his faithful mop driver, Screwy, will stick around to suckle his yambag.


mvscal wrote:Beeelieve it.
Martyred wrote:Are you drunk?
mvscal wrote:Yes.
That notion was garroted to death sometime during the Iran/Contra hearings.Wolfman wrote:Bet Harry Truman is wondering whatever happened to "the buck stops here" when it comes to leadership.
Wolfman wrote:Don't see it happening. And can't imagine Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi ever taking that walk to the White House and forcing any action. Imagine the consequences within the hoi polloi if Barry was actually tossed out or forced to resign. Bet Harry Truman is wondering whatever happened to "the buck stops here" when it comes to leadership.
Why? Because the IRS was actually doing its job and filtering out the bullshit 501(c)4 applications from the legitimate ones?mvscal wrote:Yes. It's not an eyeroll. It's a serious crime as well as a very straight forward abuse of power.
I am far from the Obama ball-licker I'm portrayed to be here.KC Scott wrote:between the Caps and Harper hitting the wall, this has been a tough week for you screwy
Screw_Michigan wrote:I am far from the Obama ball-licker I'm portrayed to be here.KC Scott wrote:between the Caps and Harper hitting the wall, this has been a tough week for you screwy
Screw_Michigan wrote:Why? Because the IRS was actually doing its job and filtering out the bullshit 501(c)4 applications from the legitimate ones?mvscal wrote:Yes. It's not an eyeroll. It's a serious crime as well as a very straight forward abuse of power.
You are, as usual, drowning in your own mop bucket. The IRS wasn't "actually doing its job." Unless you consider strong-arming political opposition to be within its purview.Screw_Michigan wrote:Why? Because the IRS was actually doing its job and filtering out the bullshit 501(c)4 applications from the legitimate ones?mvscal wrote:Yes. It's not an eyeroll. It's a serious crime as well as a very straight forward abuse of power.
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If it turns out that the Prez either knew of, authorized, or directed the IRS to unlawfully target teabaggers or otherwise abuse the power of his office, I'd say that's a little more egregious than having an intern suck his pud, and would qualify as a legitimate impeachable offense. Of course, merely being guilty of such an offense is far from a guarantee that he'll actually be impeached, which at this point I'd consider to be highly unlikely. But I'll wait until Fox News reports the grisly details, since I'm all about, you know, being all fair & balanced & stuff.Diego in Seattle wrote:Attempts at impeachments of democratic presidents has been more about payback for Nixon than the transgressions of the democratic presidents.
I mean, burglary of the DNC offices = blow job? Seriously?
I figured this was more up Shrub's alley. His association with AP is something else entirely.Sudden Sam wrote:AP phone records
You forgot Fast and the Furious. Is there anything this incompetent Justice Department can't fuck up? Holy fuck.Sudden Sam wrote:IRS, Benghazi, and AP phone records shit should be enough to knock Obama out.
Screw_Michigan wrote: Why? Because the IRS was actually doing its job and filtering out the bullshit 501(c)4 applications from the legitimate ones?
IRS wrote:Lerner apologizes to Tea Party groups for subjecting them to greater scrutiny, the first public acknowledgement that the IRS had done so.
"That was absolutely incorrect, it was insensitive and it was inappropriate. That's not how we go about selecting cases for further review," Lerner said at a conference sponsored by the American Bar Association.
"The IRS would like to apologize for that," she added.
Screw_Michigan wrote:
I am far from the Obama ball-licker I'm portrayed to be here.
...Of overseas phone calls made by known terror suspects. This concerns you why?Martyred wrote:warrant-less wiretapping
So? What part of restricted material escapes you?The Bradley Manning case
You’re just mad that Assad has been unable to close the deal and return his attention to the business of killing Jews.aiding pro Al Queda elements in Syria
What torture? Were limbs rendered? Were skulls crushed? Why do you care that a couple of 7th Century, fly-blown Islamic extremists had their Qurans Butt-sprayed?Obama making a deal with the GOP not to seek prosecution of Bush torturers
Groovy. Let’s deport them all to Canada.Indefinite detentions
maybe there's more than just panty pics he sexted to his 27 year old hottie-errr, SG's sister-errrrr, Wendy-Lou-WhoSmackie Chan wrote:I figured this was more up Shrub's alley. His association with AP is something else entirely.Sudden Sam wrote:AP phone records
Good point. Nobody died in Watergate.LTS TRN 2 wrote:And yes, it appears that that a blundered cover-up ensued. Okay...but it's not Watergate
Horseshit. Barry was elected by white guilt and Bush fatigue in '08, and by the GOPhers failure to field a viable candidate in '12. No more.LTS TRN 2 wrote:But the big lie here--now in hyper-chant by Limpdick and Hannity--is that Barry is some kind of "liberal" threat to America, etc. This is categorical bullshit. The real crime of Barry is his complete abandoning of his progressive agenda upon which he was duly elected.
Yeah, "If the president does it, it's not illegal" is no big deal.Truman wrote: Good point. Nobody died in Watergate.
To whom? Certainly not to the Ambassador who requested additional security on numerous occasions only to be ignored. Benghazi is a case of staggering incompetence before and during the attack and a cowardly pack of lies to paper over that incompetence in the aftermath. Embarassing, despicable and totally unacceptable but probably not impeachable.LTS TRN 2 wrote:Sure, the attack at Benghazi was a surprise
Holder not sure how many times he’s seized press records
Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that he isn’t sure how many times he’s seized reporters’ records.
“I’m not sure how many of those cases … I have actually signed off on,” Holder said in an interview with NPR’s Carrie Johnson. “I take them very seriously. I know that I have refused to sign a few [and] pushed a few back for modifications.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/15/holde ... z2TOE5BXuS
the IRS isn't controlled by anyone....they're an agency that answers to no one and hold all the cardsmvscal wrote:
Using various government agencies to strong arm political opposition
Yeah....riiiight. I think it's pretty clear who pulls the strings.Felix wrote:the IRS isn't controlled by anyone....they're an agency that answers to no one
Lois Lerner, the senior IRS official at the center of the decision to target tea party groups for burdensome tax scrutiny, signed paperwork granting tax-exempt status to the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a shady charity headed by the president’s half-brother that operated illegally for years.
According to the organization’s filings, Lerner approved the foundation’s tax status within a month of filing, an unprecedented timeline that stands in stark contrast to conservative organizations that have been waiting for more than three years, in some cases, for approval.
Lerner also appears to have broken with the norms of tax-exemption approval by granting retroactive tax-exempt status to Malik Obama’s organization.
The National Legal and Policy Center filed an official complaint with the IRS in May 2011 asking why the foundation was being allowed to solicit tax-deductible contributions when it had not even applied for an IRS determination. In a New York Post article dated May 8, 2011, an officer of the foundation admitted, “We haven’t been able to find someone with the expertise” to apply for tax-exempt status.
Nevertheless, a month later, the Barack H. Obama Foundation had flown through the grueling application process. Lerner granted the organization a 501(c) determination and even gave it a retroactive tax exemption dating back to December 2008.
The group’s available paperwork suggests an extremely hurried application and approval process. For example, the group’s 990 filings for 2008 and 2009 were submitted to the IRS on May 30, 2011, and its 2010 filing was submitted on May 23, 2011.
Lerner signed the group’s approval [pdf] on June 26, 2011.
It is illegal to operate for longer than 27 months without an IRS determination and solicit tax-deductible contributions.
The ostensibly Arlington, Va.-based charity was not even registered in Virginia despite the foundation’s website including a donation button that claimed tax-exempt status.
Its president and founder, Abon’go “Roy’ Malik Obama, is Barack Obama’s half-brother and was the best man at his wedding, but he has a checkered past. In addition to running his charity, Malik Obama ran unsuccessfully to be the governor of Siaya County in Kenya. He was accused of being a wife beater and seducing the newest of his twelve wives while she was a 17-year-old school girl.
Sensing something wrong when he and a group of Missouri State students visited Kenya in 2009, Ken Rutherford, winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on banning landmines, determined that Malik Obama was an “operator” and elected to give a donation of 400 pounds of medical supplies to a local clinic instead.
“We didn’t know what he was going to do with them,” Rutherford told the New York Post in 2011.
It is also not clear what the Barack H. Obama Foundation actually does. Its website claims the organization has built a madrassa and was building a imam’s house but there is no other evidence that the nonprofit was actually helping poor Kenyan children.
“The Obama Foundation raised money on its web page by falsely claiming to be a tax deductible. This bogus charity run by Malik had not even applied and yet subsequently got retroactive tax-deductible status,” Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, told The Daily Caller. Boehm described Malik Obama’s attempt to raise money as constituting “common law fraud and potentially even federal mail fraud.”
Boehm doubted that the charity is doing what it says it’s doing and wondered why the charity was given tax-exempt status so quickly after the evidence of wrongdoing came to light.
“How do you get retroactive tax-exempt status when you haven’t even applied to get it in the first place?” Boehm said.
Lerner continues to draw fire for her handling of the IRS targeting of conservative and citizen groups, but her colleagues have started to defend her, alleging that she behaves “apolitically.”
Larry Noble, who served as general counsel at the FEC from 1987 to 2000, hired and promoted Lerner. “I worked with Lois for a number of years and she is really one of the more apolitical people I’ve met,” Noble told The Daily Beast. “That doesn’t mean she doesn’t have political views, but she really focuses on the job and what the rules are. She doesn’t have an agenda.”
Lerner could not be reached for comment. Calls to the Barack H. Obama Foundation went directly to the organization’s voicemail and were not returned.
Wrong.Mace wrote:No one is getting impeached over this IRS "scandal" because this stuff has been going on for years. The IRS was doing the same shit to liberal organizations during the Bush administration and now the roles have been reversed.
ReallY? This is front page news in every paper and on all the broadcast news channels.FoxNews and the Tea Party are grasping at straws and failing badly at gaining any traction with anyone with a lick of common sense.
You might be a "suspect" tomorrow.Truman wrote: ...Of overseas phone calls made by known terror suspects. This concerns you why?