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What if Administration just admitted it was guilty?

If he was notified 5 weeks after the speech that he was being audited, then it has been in the works for a while. Nothing at the IRS works that quickly.

And the discussion of Professor Hendershott in that article. When an individual is audited, agents generally scour bank transactions. That's what they do. They are looking for unreported income. Of course an agent is going to be inquisitive regarding the source of funds from deposits in her bank account. That is what an audit is.
 
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ChrisL68 said:
If he was notified 5 weeks after the speech that he was being audited, then it has been in the works for a while. Nothing at the IRS works that quickly.

And the discussion of Professor Hendershott in that article. When an individual is audited, agents generally scour bank transactions. That's what they do. They are looking for unreported income. Of course an agent is going to be inquisitive regarding the source of funds from deposits in her bank account. That is what an audit is.
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I'm happy to concede that, if you'll concede that POTUS didn't learn that he was a political enemy for the very first time on the day he gave a speech singling him out.
 
Having his birth place, birth certificate, religion, family, education, involvement in a underground terrorist movement...this is certainly the first time he's felt like persona non grata.
 
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Having his birth place, birth certificate, religion, family, education, involvement in a underground terrorist movement...this is certainly the first time he's felt like persona non grata.
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Let's agree that not all of the dissent is irrational, bigoted xenophobia. Can we agree that there is a difference between actual hatred and expecting accountable wielding of an awesome amount of power?
 
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Having his birth place, birth certificate, religion, family, education, involvement in a underground terrorist movement...this is certainly the first time he's felt like persona non grata.
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This is why I despise the tea party for the most part. Their idiocy gets lumped in with normal and rightful dissent. It is clear that the Pubs are hammering Benghazi, but there are clear inconsistencies in the message from the admin and the facts on the ground. The DOJ & IRS questioning is just beginning. All three issues should rightfully be vetted, and you have to expect the minority power to take some shots across the now along the way.

These three issues are completely different than the birther movement or any of the other insanities that have been pushed against Obama as a person. Yet they all get lumped together by defenders (with some effectiveneness) because they share the similarity of being negative media for Obama.
 
Wrangor you had me moments away from the pos rep click until that last sentence.
 
jhmd2000 said:
Let's agree that not all of the dissent is irrational, bigoted xenophobia. Can we agree that there is a difference between actual hatred and expecting accountable wielding of an awesome amount of power?
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I agree with dissent. I don't put made up bullshit in that category.
 
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Wrangor you had me moments away from the pos rep click until that last sentence.
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So close! Don't see why the last sentence would have caused you to shy away. Explain. They are all negative media, defenders of Obama clearly use the crazies to pass off some of the legitimate concerns. There are legitimate concerns about Obama as president and there are illegitimate concerns. It is a shame when the illegitimate concerns (which are clearly crazy - aka birther) are used as a means to shuffle off legitimate concerns over his administration (drones, Benghazi, IRS, DOJ, Wall Street, etc...).
 
Wrangor said:
So close! Don't see why the last sentence would have caused you to shy away. Explain. They are all negative media, defenders of Obama clearly use the crazies to pass off some of the legitimate concerns. There are legitimate concerns about Obama as president and there are illegitimate concerns. It is a shame when the illegitimate concerns (which are clearly crazy - aka birther) are used as a means to shuffle off legitimate concerns over his administration (drones, Benghazi, IRS, DOJ, Wall Street, etc...).
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See that's you close a good post.
 
I've got a more useful "What if" than wishing people guilty when multiple investigations prove they aren't.

What if I were 21 again, was 7'3, had the handles of Pistol Pete, the shot of Steph Curry, the hops of David Thompson, the strength of Wilt, the ability to cover guards like KC Jones, to cover front court players like a Wilt/Russell hybrid, could pass like Magic, nkew physics like Stephen Hawking, could sing like Marvin Gaye and had the political acumen of a combination of Jefferson, Churchill, Lincoln, Ghandi, Mandela?
 
RJKarl said:
I've got a more useful "What if" than wishing people guilty when multiple investigations prove they aren't.

What if I were 21 again, was 7'3, had the handles of Pistol Pete, the shot of Steph Curry, the hops of David Thompson, the strength of Wilt, the ability to cover guards like KC Jones, to cover front court players like a Wilt/Russell hybrid, could pass like Magic, nkew physics like Stephen Hawking, could sing like Marvin Gaye and had the political acumen of a combination of Jefferson, Churchill, Lincoln, Ghandi, Mandela?
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You'd be a tall, brilliant, multi-talented, multi-faceted individual spending all of his time on a message board.
 
how do you know that I don't have electrodes transmitting my posts to the board allowing me to do multiple things at once?
 
When they found about this, the higher ups wanted to BROADEN the groups that were being flagged:

"In July 2011, Lois Lerner, the director of the Exempt Organizations Division in Washington, held a briefing with employees involved with the review. She learned just how far off track the Cincinnati office had gone: specialists had been told to flag not only Tea Party groups, but applications describing particular policy views, like opposition to federal spending, that tend to be espoused by conservative groups. In all, more than 100 applications had been flagged. Almost none had been approved.

Ms. Lerner insisted that the specialists broaden their criteria to flag any group that had suggested plans for lobbying or political activity, according to the inspector general. But a few months later, in November, according to the inspector general, a midlevel official in Washington temporarily overseeing the Cincinnati office told a supervisor there that the guidance was “too lawyerly.” The guidelines were revised several times, as new specialists and lawyers joined the effort."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/u...lear-about-the-rules.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
 
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