Poor Richard’s News
8/12/2013
It’s no wonder that Lois Lerner wants immunity in exchange for her testimony. After all, people that have done nothing wrong, don’t need immunity. That being said, a video of Lerner from 2010 seems to shed a little more light on the reason why she and others in the IRS targeted the Tea Party.
From Breitbart:
Newly uncovered video shows Lois Lerner discussing the political pressure that swirled around the IRS in 2010. Lerner says “everyone” was “screaming at” the IRS to stop the flood of money pouring into the 2010 elections through 501(c)(4) groups as a result of Citizens United.
Lerner spoke to a small group at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy on October 19, 2010, just two weeks before the wave election that brought the Tea Party and Republicans significant gains in Congress. During her appearance Lerner was asked about the flow of money from corporations to 501(c)(4) groups. “Everyone is up in arms because they don’t like it” Lerner replied, adding “Federal Election Commission can’t do anything about it; they want the IRS to fix the problem.”
Lerner goes on to outline the fact that 501(c)(4) organizations have the right to do “an ad that says vote for Joe Blow” so long as their primary activity is social welfare. However Lerner again emphasizes the political pressure the IRS was under at the time…
…Let’s go over the timeline…
The complete article, with video, is at Poor Richard’s News.
Also at the site, Obamacare set to be a privacy disaster; American’s health and employment information at risk
The Inspector General for Health and Human Services is raising major red flags about the safety of Americans’ private health and employment information under Obamacare. According to his report, the Obama administration has not setup adequate security to safeguard the massive amounts of private information collected under the law…
Update: Dingy: Tea Partiers “Modern-Day Anarchists” Trying To Destroy Government From Within…
World’s biggest jackass.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is worried that Republicans might be secretly basing their discontent with the President on his race instead of his failed policies…
Update 2: NRO Argues That Lois Lerner’s Coordination with the FEC May Have Been a Felony
E-mail correspondence unearthed by the House Ways and Means Committee reveals that Lois Lerner, the figure at the center of the scandal, may have committed a felony by divulging information about a conservative group to the Federal Election Commission, in an incident that dates back at least to 2008, before President Obama took office. Though some conservatives have eagerly sought evidence that Obama’s White House instigated the IRS’s targeting of tea-party groups, the latest evidence suggests that an anti-conservative bias may instead be an endemic feature of the federal bureaucracy…
Read the whole thing.
