Remember the IRS's targeting conservative groups and individuals for harassment? That scandal broke in May of 2013. When the story first came to light, president Obama claimed that he knew nothing about the entire matter and he promised to get to the bottom of the IRS conduct and to fix things there. Here is how Obama's statement was reported by Yahoo News, one of Obama's biggest supporters in the mainstream media:
Bluntly declaring "I am angry" about the IRS scandal, President Barack Obama said late Wednesday that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had forced out Steven Miller, the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. Speaking in the East Room of the White House, Obama called Miller's ouster "the first step" to prevent similar misconduct in the future and vowed to "do everything in my power" to make sure it never happens again.
Obama said he had reviewed the Treasury Department Inspector General's report that details how the IRS targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status.
"The misconduct that it uncovered is inexcusable. It's inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it and I am angry about it," the president said in a brief prepared statement. "I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency—but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives."
Two months later, Obama changed his tune. After having done nothing at all regarding the IRS scandal, Obama suddenly started calling that scandal "phony". In a speech at Knox College, Obama said this:
“With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball.”
Then, just to be clear, presidential spokesman Jay Carney provided the press details of just which scandals were "phony". Carney called the IRS scandal and the scandal surrounding the terror attack on the consulate in Benghazi as the phony ones.
How could the White House view of the IRS scandal change so rapidly. In the beginning a supposedly outraged Obama is having the head of the IRS fired and a few weeks later, he is calling the entire mess a phony scandal. Today, we learned the reason for the shift: the IRS scandal goes right into the White House itself. Let's say that again with appropriate gusto. THE IRS SCANDAL GOES RIGHT INTO THE WHITE HOUSE ITSELF!!!
The Daily Caller published email between White House officials and the senior IRS official who headed the IRS office responsible for overseeing tax-exempt nonprofit groups before leaving to head the agency’s office in charge of Obamacare implementation. Those email show that these people were discussing confidential tax information about conservative groups. It is a felony to disclose or misuse the taxpayer information held by the IRS. Even more important, these email show that the scandal reached right into the White House.
Most likely, when the House Oversight Committee sought the email that disclosed the White House involvement in the scandal, the Obama folks went into a panic. They realized that after Obama went on record denouncing the misconduct of the government by targeting the conservatives, it would be hard for him to justify that his own staff was involved in the mess. That is why Obama made the switch to calling this a "phony" scandal. From now on, if Obama ever gets a question about White House involvement in the IRS scandal, his only answer will be that the entire matter is a phony scandal.
The truth, however, is something much more sinister than a phony scandal. The Obama White House has been caught misusing the resources of the IRS. For years, there have been those who called Obama the second coming of Jimmy Carter. In this regard, they are wrong. Obama is the second coming of Richard Nixon.
Bluntly declaring "I am angry" about the IRS scandal, President Barack Obama said late Wednesday that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had forced out Steven Miller, the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. Speaking in the East Room of the White House, Obama called Miller's ouster "the first step" to prevent similar misconduct in the future and vowed to "do everything in my power" to make sure it never happens again.
Obama said he had reviewed the Treasury Department Inspector General's report that details how the IRS targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status.
"The misconduct that it uncovered is inexcusable. It's inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it and I am angry about it," the president said in a brief prepared statement. "I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency—but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives."
Two months later, Obama changed his tune. After having done nothing at all regarding the IRS scandal, Obama suddenly started calling that scandal "phony". In a speech at Knox College, Obama said this:
“With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball.”
Then, just to be clear, presidential spokesman Jay Carney provided the press details of just which scandals were "phony". Carney called the IRS scandal and the scandal surrounding the terror attack on the consulate in Benghazi as the phony ones.
How could the White House view of the IRS scandal change so rapidly. In the beginning a supposedly outraged Obama is having the head of the IRS fired and a few weeks later, he is calling the entire mess a phony scandal. Today, we learned the reason for the shift: the IRS scandal goes right into the White House itself. Let's say that again with appropriate gusto. THE IRS SCANDAL GOES RIGHT INTO THE WHITE HOUSE ITSELF!!!
The Daily Caller published email between White House officials and the senior IRS official who headed the IRS office responsible for overseeing tax-exempt nonprofit groups before leaving to head the agency’s office in charge of Obamacare implementation. Those email show that these people were discussing confidential tax information about conservative groups. It is a felony to disclose or misuse the taxpayer information held by the IRS. Even more important, these email show that the scandal reached right into the White House.
Most likely, when the House Oversight Committee sought the email that disclosed the White House involvement in the scandal, the Obama folks went into a panic. They realized that after Obama went on record denouncing the misconduct of the government by targeting the conservatives, it would be hard for him to justify that his own staff was involved in the mess. That is why Obama made the switch to calling this a "phony" scandal. From now on, if Obama ever gets a question about White House involvement in the IRS scandal, his only answer will be that the entire matter is a phony scandal.
The truth, however, is something much more sinister than a phony scandal. The Obama White House has been caught misusing the resources of the IRS. For years, there have been those who called Obama the second coming of Jimmy Carter. In this regard, they are wrong. Obama is the second coming of Richard Nixon.
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