In a farcical abuse of common sense and the American taxpayer,
the Internal Revenue Service has granted Crossroads GPS,
the dark-money machine of Karl Rove, the Republicans’ guru of
attack politics, status as a tax-exempt “social welfare” organization.
This means it can keep its deep-pocketed campaign donors secret.

What a SAD day for American Democracy.  :(

I'm sure the Founding Fathers are weeping in their graves...  (http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/Smileys/classic/cry.gif)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/opinion/karl-rove-bamboozles-the-irs.html?_r=0

The SOBama Regime used its IRS to hold up many Conservative Groups' Tax Exempt statuses for YEARS!!!!

...and you're complaining about ONE group that gets through the SOBama barricade? ? ? ? ? ? ?

What an ASS you are!!!!

At last the left understands the meaning of Equality

Drop off a box of tissues at G Washington's grave...

And you really believe the democrats have not done the same?

LOL

This is why REAL campaign finance reform is necessary.  When you have the likes of Norman Hsu and Johnny Chung being allowed to let the Chinese government essentially buy election candidates, there's a problem.

NO candidate running for high office in this nation should be allowed to accept a PENNY from foreign sources...there should be a SET amount that NO candidate can exceed!

The presidency should not be bought!

They probably have Biz, although no one has seen any of that.  One thing for sure is that if they have,  they haven't even came close to the level that the TrEA$on party has.  But I do like the mention by your TrEA$on part BHBs here about the mythical scrutiny by the IRS over the TrEA$on party fake Social organizations.

Okay...whatever you say...

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Why thank you Biz.  Glad at least one of you can recognize the truth when you see it.

It's not enough.  The IRS has a long way to go to make amends for their crimes against conservatives.

The IRS is lucky it still exists.

Except, Dan, there were no crimes.  But I know how you TrEA$on party assholes can feel so prosecuted when anyone calls your hand.

I was being sarcastic.

Yeah ignore the fact that the IRS investigated Liberal groups too.
Let's ignore that fact that the only group denied was a Liberal one.  :P

Let's just go ahead and persecute the IRS, even though there has been no trial, and no convictions have been proven.
Let's just go ahead and listen to whatever the GOP mouthpieces say.

Yeah THAT will make everything work out just fine...

The IRS clearly broke the law and applied excessive scrutiny to conservative groups while giving libs a free pass.  It's not arguable.  Those are the facts.

Then show me the convictions.

If those are facts, then that should be no problem.

Who do you think is in charge of the Justice Department???  They have the evidence in their hands, but they refuse to prosecute for obvious political reasons.  The IRS did exactly what the Obama administration wanted, so why should we be surprised they're not prosecuting?  This is why we need a special prosecutor.

So you have no convictions...  uh-huh...

What law did they break, clearly or otherwise Dan?  I would like to know, because if they did then your TrEA$on party investigations of Hillary are clearly against the law.

The Nazis didn't convict the Gestapo either.  Why not, you ask?  Because the Gestapo did the dirty work for the Nazis, attacking their enemies.

Why would you expect Obama to prosecute the people who did his dirty work for him?

That is true Dan.  Nor did the TrEA$on party convict any of the administration that lied to us, started two wars, lost them and left the mess for America to clean up.  Nor did they convict those who gave Haliburton a multi-trillion dollar contract (with no bids) then allowed them to not do anything for the money they got.  As for the IRS, I am still waiting for you to inform me what law they broke?

Yes, Dan is MUCH more worried about a few thousand dollars at the IRS and four lives lost in Benghazi
rather than THOUSANDS Of American lives and MILLIONS of innocent lives lost in Iraq and BILLIONS of
dollars lost.

Makes perfect sense.  Go after the small fry Democrats, rather than the HUMONGOUS amounts lost by the Repocons.

LOL the IRS turned down about 300 conservative groups to maybe 10 liberal groups lol I just want to know when the IRS is going to ever come down on Al Sharptongue the way they came down on Willie Nelson how long do we have to put up with special treatment by the IRS for Obamas friends, Al your back taxes are way way overdue!!

Sorry Komerad Upyrz, but they didn't turn down anybody.  But let's pretend for a minute that what you say is true.  All that proves is that the TrEA$on party is so much more corrupt than the Democrats (by this measure 30 times more).

Wrong again liar it proves there was political bias and yes corruption but the corruption was in the Obama IRS why else did they hide behind the fifth and refuse to testify?

That's what I just said.  The treason party democrats didn't convict themselves.


Solyndra!

In this case, the treason party democrats and the democrats are one and the same.  Treason party democrats are 30X worse than democrats.

Except you are wrong as usual Dan.  Unless, of course you are saying that the Democrats were investigated 300 times and the TrEA$on party wasn't.  Is that what you are saying Dan?

So far the Democrats have broken no laws, nor did the IRS, so there is nothing to be convicted for.  However, your TrEA$on party did break laws and were not convicted of anything.  You can make all the changes you want to Dan, but it still does not change the facts.

Davik views a victory for privacy to be a defeat!

Tells you how little he values privacy!

Why should the people who are influencing public policy/politicians expect privacy, DVD?

Why shouldn't the public KNOW who their politicians are being influenced by?

GW says the treason party are democrats.

How is donating money to candidates or PAC's influencing anyone!

Would you donate to Cruz in the hopes of changing his policy stances?

Dan says that he is a member of the TrEA$on party and that they want to destroy America.

Davik, voting influences public policy!

Are you saying how people vote should be public, too!

Are you saying employers would be justified in firing people for how they vote as people have been fired for donating to the wrong candidate or cause?

OMG - You are not serious, are you?

If every person votes one time, I don't care, but I do care if one person gets to vote 1 million times!

Why don't you care when that one person gets to vote 1 million times, but you only get one vote?

Why don't you want to know who they are, and why they get to vote 1 million times?
Don't you want to know what they believe, and what policies they want to get passed?
Don't you want to look into voter fraud too?

My Gawd, how stupid are you?

Gw is right.  Democrats do want to destroy America.  Democrats are the treason party.

Davik, who is voting a million times?

 
Whatsamatta Davik, are you afraid someone will buy more politicians than George Soros and all his hidden Socialist entities?
 

Seems Davik is unwilling to answer!

Every time ANYONE gives a million dolalrs to ANY candidate, they are voting a million times.

The person who gave a million dollars NOW has influence over that candidate if they win.

Those candidates who win are supposed to represent EVERYONE,
so EVERYONE has a right to know who is influencing them.

If you have a problem with that, then you should move to a Communist/Dictatorial country.

If that were true Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton would be winning with massive leads ahead of their opponents!

Experience proves your claims wrong!