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Pacers win today but Heat will take Game 7.
I'm far from the only one who believes he is racist or offensive.
Google top 20 racist remarks made by Limbaugh. One website goes through each in detail and explains how each comment is offensive to a race or sex.How does my avatar have anything to do with it? Are gonna debate next that Hendrix wasnt awesome? Of course not why debate something that isn't really debatable?
Pacers win today but Heat will take Game 7.
This doesn't belong on this forum! Enough with the bogus investigations! Take care of our country first! Jobs, Our Military, Our Roads and Our economy!
What's most laughable about this yet another Repug/Fox FABRICATED scandal is that Ms of right-wing God-guns-gays rabble STILL believe it, as fervently as they KNOW their God created the universe in 144 hours about 6000 years ago.
you shouldn't make that face; it might freeze that way.
I appreciate your concern, so GFY
Issa Busted for Secret Meetings with Stay-Behind IRS Inspector General UPDATED Fed Complaint Filed
We can't say Seymour Hersh didn't warn us. It's looking like the IRS Inspector General, J. Russell George, a Dubya appointee, is the ultimate stay-behind. In the middle of last year, he was caught meeting exclusively with Issa and his Goposaur gang to drum up phony IRS scandal claims. Well now, he's been caught doing the exact same thing, but regarding an IRS 'audit' of the Affordable Care Act.
Thank goodness for Rep. Elijah mings and Rep. Gerald Connelly, who wrote the 'honorable' IRS IG a letter, which they cc'ed to Issa, and is posted in full after the jump...
The Honorable J. Russell George
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
U.S. Department of the Treasury
City Center Building
1401 H Street, NW, Suite 469
Washington, D.C. 20005
Dear Mr. Inspector General:
We are writing to object strongly to your office’s repeated partisan meetings with Chairman Darrell Issa and his staff after intentionally excluding Democratic
Committee Members and staff—particularly regarding matters that currently are under active investigation by both your office and this Committee.
We have been informed that your staff held an in-person meeting with Republican Committee staff in their offices on January 27, 2014. During this meeting, your staff discussed substantive information about a new audit your office has initiated on data security issues relating to the Affordable Care Act. Your staff also discussed specific do ents relating to this audit that your office has obtained as part of its review.
According to subsequent accounts from your office, Chairman Issa’s staff forbade you from including any Democratic Committee Members or staff in that meeting, and your staff accepted these terms without even informing my office.
For these reasons, we now have three requests:
(1) First, we ask that your office provide the Democratic staff with the same in-person briefing that was provided to Chairman Issa’s staff on January 27, as well as all information your office has shared with the Chairman’s staff on this matter to date.
(2) In addition, if the Committee continues to insist on a partisan approach that excludes Democrats, we believe it is your responsibility, as an Inspector General charged with conducting non-partisan reviews, to resist these tactics, and we request that you not consent to any terms that deny Members of one political party the opportunity to participate in briefings or meetings relating to your active audits or investigations.
(3) Finally, because you and your Communications Director have made conflicting publicstatements regarding your audit of tax-exempt applicants, please provide copies of all do ents within TIGTA’s possession or control related to any statements made by Ms. Kraushaar in June 2013 relating to the audit of tax-exempt applicants, including all emails or other communications between you, Karen Kraushaar, or any other TIGTA employee.
Thank you for your cooperation with this request.
Sincerely,
Elijah E. mings Gerald Connolly
Ranking Member Ranking Member
Subcommittee on Government Operations
cc: The Honorable Darrell E. Issa, Chairman
Update 1:
Democratic Representatives Connolly and Cartwright have now filed a formal complaint against IG George with the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. From The Washington Post:
Two House Democrats on Thursday called for an investigation of a federal auditor who accused the Internal Revenue Service of gross mismanagement and targeting advocacy groups for extra scrutiny based on their names and policy positions.Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and Matt Cartwright (D-Penn.) on Wednesday filed a complaint with a special watchdog council questioning the independence of Treasury Department inspector general J. Russell George.
The congressmen, both of whom serve as top Democrats on House oversight committees, said George produced a “fundamentally flawed performance audit” that was “incomplete” and “outright misleading.” They also alleged that he held briefings with Republican members of the House Oversight Committee without the knowledge of Democrats on the panel.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...l?detail=email
Repug governance!
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Issa Says His IRS Investigation Might Have Hit A 'Dead End'
Following a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday in which a star witness again invoked her Fifth Amendment rights, and the Democratic ranking member denounced a "one-sided investigation," committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told reporters that his long-running investigation into the IRS may have hit a "dead end."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/issa-irs-dead-end?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_camp aign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29
Issa supporting free speech by Dem committe member
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