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AcousticGod
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posted May 24, 2013 02:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
While there has been plenty to find fault with in the revelation that the IRS targeted some tea party groups seeking tax exempt status, some of the Republican rhetoric has been an overreach.

  • Rep. Michele Bachmann falsely claimed that Americans “most personal, sensitive, intimate, private healthcare information is in the hands of the IRS,” while raising the specter that the IRS will misuse that information against “political opponents of this administration.” The IRS will not have access to personal health records.

  • Sen. Rand Paul passed along baseless speculation that “the person running Obamacare” was the one “who wrote the policy” at the center of the IRS controversy. That’s a reference to a former IRS commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations who now heads the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office. But a Treasury Inspector General’s report found that employees in the Cincinnati office, not any administrators in Washington, “developed and implemented” the policy in question.

  • Rep. Paul Ryan said that the IG investigators “didn’t look at emails, they didn’t look at intent, they didn’t look who was in the chain of information.” That’s not true. The IG office did look at emails and conducted interviews, and the report made findings about who knew what and when.

For more on how Republicans (low-information voters in "Ami speak") didn't understand the available information read on: http://factcheck.org/2013/05/republican-overreach-on-irs/

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Ami Anne
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posted May 24, 2013 03:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
When I hear someone as intelligent as AG write something like this, I want to hide under the bed until they drag me to a FEMA camp

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juniperb
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posted May 24, 2013 05:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I haven`t had the chance to read the link yet but thanks for posting the info

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The IRS will not have access to personal health records

How on earth did she conclude they did?

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Ami Anne
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posted May 24, 2013 05:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Grrrr The IRS is enforcing health care. All you people are making me crazy

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AcousticGod
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posted May 24, 2013 06:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ami, saying something nebulous like, "The IRS is enforcing health care," doesn't say how they are enforcing healthcare. The IRS doesn't need medical records to do their job. They only need financial records.

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Ami Anne
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posted May 24, 2013 06:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by AcousticGod:
Ami, saying something nebulous like, "The IRS is enforcing health care," doesn't say how they are enforcing healthcare. The IRS doesn't need medical records to do their job. They only need financial records.

Yes, AG I guess the IRS will keep us safe the way they did with the tax exempts


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juniperb
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posted May 30, 2013 07:49 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Bachmann announced she isn`t running for re election. I don`t think we`ve heard the end of her tho.


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Bachmann’s announcement yesterday that she won’t run again after four terms follows the departure of former South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, a Republican who left last year to head the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, which advocates limited government. The two lawmakers had been regarded as the faces of the Tea Party’s rebellion in the House and Senate.

Bachmann, a 2012 presidential hopeful, DeMint, and former Representative Allen West of Florida, who clashed with House Speaker John Boehner and lost his election last year, are being supplanted by leaders such as freshman Senator Ted Cruz of Texas as Republicans regroup after losing showdowns with President Barack Obama over taxes and spending.

Ethics Inquiry

Her announcement came amid an ethics inquiry. The Office of Congressional Ethics is looking into alleged campaign-finance violations, the Daily Beast reported in March. A lawyer for Bachmann told the Washington Post that month that she was cooperating with the probe and wasn’t presented with any allegations of personal wrongdoing.



http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-29/bachmann-says-she-won-t-run-for-u-s-house-re-election-in-2014.html



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Ami Anne
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posted May 30, 2013 08:09 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Bachman is SOOOOOOO fantastic. The Clown in Chief et al tried to disgrace her but she is so clean that there was nothing on her, just like one of the best woman alive today--Sarah Palin. These woman are true role models. What a shame she is leaving. It is a real tragedy

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