Hobbled IRS can't stem 'dark money' flow

[OneCrazyDiamond]

Source: Center For Public Intgrity/Yahoo

When federal election lawyers decided the nonprofit Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies likely violated political spending limits, campaign finance watchdogs were certain the Internal Revenue Service would take action.

After all, lawyers for the Federal Election Commission argued that Crossroads GPS, co-founded by Republican operatives Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, spent more on politics than anything else leading up to the 2010 election.

Then the IRS tea party scandal exploded.

Republicans in Congress began waylaying the IRS over what they said was the systematic and inexcusable targeting of tea party and conservative groups. And the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration declared that the agency had employed “inappropriate criteria” in heavily scrutinizing some groups' tax-exemption applications.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/hobbled-irs-cant-stem-dark-090000174.html

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The plan worked.

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Mission Accomplished (TM). nt

[COLGATE4]

2. How absolutely true! nt

[mopinko]

3. it sure hell did.

personally, i want to see the heritage fund stripped of ITS tax status. why the f a rethuglican
"think tank" read-propaganda mill- is allowed to operate as tax exempt, i will never understand.

dh served as a 'republican for a day' election judge some years ago, and he still gets stuff from time to time. lush mailings. full of bullshit and lies.

wtf

[Rapillion]

4. Dark money

One of the most underrated economic issues of our time.

[kelliekat44]

5. This is what the GOP has wanted all along. Complete freedom for the 1%.

[Nay]

7. Yep. But you can bet that waitresses' tips are still being scrutinized

every time. They make so much money, you know.

[blkmusclmachine]

8. "Strain a gnat, and swallow a camel."

Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Jail

[Bandit]

6. I'm starting to believe the Republicans may be correct in that Obama can be rolled easily.

No arrests in the Cliven Bundy matter, no following the Law on the IRS issue and almost no pushback on any issue Republicans bring up. Democrats are Running scared.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

9. Not the President,

he is going alone now.

His allies are who I wonder about with the election year and all.