Friday, May 17th  IRS Scandal Hearing Today the House Ways and Means Committee held its first hearing on the IRS scandal which broke just a week ago. Two people testified before the committee: Steven Miller, the out-going IRS commissioner, and J . Russell George, the Treasury Inspector General. Visit Hannity.com for some of the highlights from the week. The real important question here is who made the decision not to disclose this scandal before the election and why? Well until we have an answer to that question, all we can do is assume: Was it for political purposes to make sure that Barack Obama's re-e...

 BREITBART.COM 3 Hours Ago Poll: 57% of Voters Want IRS Offenders Jailed or Fired by  Mike Flynn by  Mike Flynn 17 May 2013, 7:44 AM PDT post a comment Moreover 55% of voters believe it is at least somewhat likely that President Obama or his top aides knew about the IRS targeting. 34% consider it unlikely that President Obama was aware. 68% of GOP voters believe it is very likely Obama knew about the targeting.  The IRS occupies a unique position in the US Government. As the government's tax collector, it is, in many respects, the nation's chief law enforcement agency. The suggestion that any of its activities are politically motivated erodes the cornerstone of the public's trust in government.  The voters expect dramatic and decisive action against those who violated this trust. One or two resignations are not enough for the Obama Administration to fully address this crisis.  Poll: 57% of Voters Want IRS Offenders Jailed or Fired http://www.breitbart.com/B...

 GUNSSAVELIVES.NET 3 Hours Ago [Video] Welcome to NJ, Pro Gun Citizen Forcefully Removed From Hearing in the Middle of His Testimony So, this is NJ huh? Second Amendment activist, James Kaleda, was forcefully removed from a hearing on a new gun control bill in NJ during his testimony. Yes, James' testimony got a little heated, but he was still making an intelligent argument. Notice in the video the legislators laugh as they have their security (armed with guns of course) remove Kaleda before he finished his testimony. Kaleda receives a standing ovation from the gallery during his ejection. From the Youtube description of the video: James Kaleda explains that the proposed NJ Gun Bills will not save any lives but will endanger them. He is ejected by Committee Chair Senator Norcross. This took place at the NJ Senate gun control hearings in Trenton on April 30, 2013. I guess this is how they handle dissent in NJ, remove it from the building with armed guards. [Video] Welcome to NJ, Pro...

 BREITBART.COM 4 Hours Ago News Anchor Who Complained of IRS Harassment 'Off the Air' by  John Nolte by  John Nolte 17 May 2013, 6:27 AM PDT post a comment "We take this very seriously, and we don't expect this to drag on. We're still looking into the situation and weighing our options" According to the  St. Louis Dispatch , the station decided to give Connors a "few days off" while they looked into his allegations. KMOV news director Sean McLaughlin went out of his way to say that Connors was not suspended. "We take this very seriously, and we don't expect this to drag on. We're still looking into the situation and weighing our options," he told the  St. Louis Dispatch . h/t:  @agoodeye Follow John Nolte on Twitter  @NolteNC News Anchor Who Complained of IRS Harassment 'Off the Air' http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/05/17/Anchor-Who-Complained-About-IRS-Harassment-Off-The-Air John Hames

 HUMAN EVENTS 3 Hours Ago The Obama media blackout by  John Hayward Let's see if we can unravel one of the great mysteries of the Obama Administration.  The latest invocations of the Incompetence Defense from President Obama, Eric Holder, and now the departing Acting IRS Commissioner (hilariously described by the Associated Press  as "ousted," even though he's leaving exactly when he was originally scheduled to depart, in June) hold that all of these super-genius leaders found out about various outrages by watching the news, along with the rest of us.  They have no idea what their subordinates do every day, until it blows up into a huge scandal on the evening news, and that's why they should be left in charge of everything. Obama said it about the IRS scandal.  Although he now claims to be angry about it, he didn't say a single word about these outrageous abuses of power until a reporter specifically asked him about it during a  joint press conference ...

 FREEDOMWORKS.ORG 3 Hours Ago IRS Employees Union: Keep Us Out Of Exchanges The National Treasury Employees Union, NTEU, which represents the IRS employees who harassed and delayed tea party and conservative groups, has come out against the proposal to put federal workers into exchange-based health insurance.  Fancy that: the people in charge of deciding whether you go into an exchange, and who decided  it doesn't matter  whether your state doesn't want one, don't want to be in one themselves. As Jeffrey Lord of The  American Spectator  points out (hat tip,  American Thinker ), With the IRS assuming serious police powers of Obamacare, in effect the members of one left-wing labor union will have access to the private health care records of every single American. While it's fine to investigate whether President Obama and higher ups at Treasury knew about or even ordered the IRS to  harass conservatives  and slow-walk their applications, Congres...

 PAT DOLLARD YOUNG AMERICANS 2 Hours Ago IRS Chief Won't Say Who Ordered Targeting Of Obama's Enemies by  Pat Dollard May 17, 2013Pat Dollard Excerpted from  The Daily Caller :  The outgoing leader of the Internal Revenue Service testified Friday that he could not specifically finger the person responsible for the agency's targeting of tea party groups. "I don't have names for you," Steve Miller, the acting commissioner of the IRS who resigned this week because of the scandal, said during testimony during a hearing before the House Ways and Means committee. "I don't have names for you" Miller made the claim after Rep. Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican, asked Miller to name the responsible party at least four times. "Who is responsible for targeting these groups?" Brady asked at one point. Miller responded that he takes "exception to the concept of targeting, because it's a loaded word." After being pressed by Brady to specif...

 THEULSTERMANREPORT.COM 3 Hours Ago Barack Obama's Executive Order 13522 – And The IRS Scandal RedState's Labor Union Report has done fantastic work of make the case for a special prosecutor to look into the current IRS scandal – a case necessitated in great part by the collusion between the Obama administration and federal labor unions that was further enhanced by Obama Executive Order 13522. Where do the anti-sequester, federal government workers-turned-protestors work? They work at the  Internal Revenue Service –and  they are unionized . …The IRS & Executive Order 13522 In December 2009, during the first term of his presidency, in an effort to make the federal government more "union friendly," President Obama issued Executive Order 13522. "Easy to read, hard to put down." In short, as noted in 2011, Executive Order 13522 establishes "labor-management forums" between union bosses (who may or may not be federal employees) and federal agency ma...

Friday, May 17, 2013 "There are miniature Obamas all over this government doing his bidding for him." - Rush    Transcripts, Rush 24/7 Audio Now at RushLimbaugh.com: It's Bigger Than Obama -- We're Witnessing What Happens When Liberalism Rules Your Last Chance to "Rush to Hawaii" The Federal Government is After Us "Hating Breitbart" Movie Premieres "Is the culture of corruption so pervasive at the IRS that so many people felt they could get away with these illegal activities? Do you realize how easy it must have...

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