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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Only Scandal In Washington Is Darrell Issa, and It Is Time He Gets Investigated
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/02/07/scandal-washington-darrell-issa-time-investigated.htmlThe Only Scandal In Washington Is Darrell Issa, and It Is Time He Gets Investigated
By: Rmuse
Friday, February, 7th, 2014, 11:35 am
A scandal is an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong that causes general public outrage, and fabricating scandals has become a favorite tool of Republicans in Congress to attack the African American President and waste valuable taxpayer time and money instead of doing the jobs their constituents sent them to Washington to do. The Republican problem is that since the so-called scandals they have attempted to tie to the President were fabricated, they presented no evidence that the White House was involved in any wrongdoing, but that has not dissuaded them from perpetuating the same phony scandals over and over. This week Republicans resurrected their fabricated Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal in an attempt to counter the Presidents assertion during an interview with Bill OReilly where he said theres not even a smidgeon of corruption at the IRS and to oppose new IRS guidelines for 501(c)(4) social welfare groups conservatives use to conceal dark money contributors identities.
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Last June it was revealed that the Treasury Departments inspector general for tax administration said they were told by House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) to narrowly focus on Tea Party organizations. The inspector generals audit found that groups seeking tax-exempt status with Tea Party and patriots in their name did receive extra attention from the IRS, but it was because Issa instructed them to and not because the White House issued an order like Republicans are claiming again to thwart new IRS rules for 501(c)(4) social welfare groups. If Republicans are so enamored with ferreting out Washington corruption, they would immediately launch an investigation into Darrell Issa for explicitly instructing the IRS to target groups with teabagger, patriot, and 9/12 in their names instead of wasting taxpayer time and money over a manufactured scandal.
Not only did Issa set the IRS up to scrutinize teabagger groups and then spend the next year wasting time and taxpayer money investigating the Obama White House, he profited from his investigation conservatives hoped would take down President Obama and cast aspersion on the IRS. Issas campaign raised nearly $450,000 more than his previous quarter for the largest fundraising effort since he took office eleven years ago for his effort to portray the Obama Administration as corrupt. Issas fabrication led to a still active petition to demand a Congressional Ethics Committee investigation into Issa for purposely manufacturing the IRS scandal and profiting from it.
Issa is still corrupt and on Tuesday two key Democrats on the House Oversight Committee accused him of surreptitiously orchestrating partisan meetings with the federal investigator who issued the report last year on Internal Revenue Service actions. Reps. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) and Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA) sent a letter to Treasury Department IG Russell George alleging that he held Republican-only meetings at Issas request. The letter said, Chairman Issas 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. Cummings and Connolly asked the inspector general to avoid future meetings that would exclude Democrats, in addition to providing Democratic staff with the briefings they missed.
The only scandal in Washington is Darrell Issa, and it is high time he faces an investigation into why he instructed the inspector general for tax administration to investigate teabaggers with extra scrutiny, profit from the so-called IRS scandal, and waste untold taxpayer dollars and time that has not produced, as the President said, even a smidgeon of corruption at the Internal Revenue Service or the White House. It is no coincidence that the so-called scandal is back in the news about the time the IRS is set to finalize the new guidelines for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt social welfare groups, or as the Republican letter to IRS chief Koskinen said the timing of the phony scandals resurrection appears to be calculated just in time for the midterm elections, giving the strong appearance of political motivation. The phony scandals have all been politically motivated and the most corrupt Republican in Washington, Darrell Issa has been at the center of each one; including setting up the IRS to target teabaggers.
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The Only Scandal In Washington Is Darrell Issa, and It Is Time He Gets Investigated (Original Post)
babylonsister
Feb 2014
OP
Arsonist, car thief, Republican politician. It's a bootstrap program for conservatives.
Scuba
Feb 2014
#1
Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. Arsonist, car thief, Republican politician. It's a bootstrap program for conservatives.
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)2. Sounds like an academy or private school for the upcoming repubs..LOL..n/t
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)3. Hear Hear, Ma'am
freshwest
(53,661 posts)6. You beat me to it! And let's have hearings! Wait, on second thought, let's not. Just vote them out!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)4. Issa ...
napkinz
(17,199 posts)5. more Issa ...
malaise
(269,054 posts)7. GTA Issa should be in prison
Time for some Federal Government Action.