On 5/16/2013 1:24 AM, Bret Cahill wrote:
>>>> Bush Used the IRS, FBI, CIA and Secret Service to Go After Opponents.
>>>> Where Was the Fox and GOP Outrage?: in 2005, Bush’s IRS began what
>>>> became an extensive two-year investigation into a Pasadena church
>>>> after an orator dared to speak out against President Bush’s Iraq War
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>>>>
http://www.alternet.org/bush-used-irs-fbi-cia-and-secret-service-go-a...
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>>>> / By David Sirota [2]
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>>>> Bush Used the IRS, FBI, CIA and Secret Service to Go After Opponents
>>>> -- Where Was the Fox and GOP Outrage?
>>>> May 14, 2013 |
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>>>> As your kindergarten teacher probably told you, two wrongs do not make
>>>> a right. But the discrepancy in reactions to wrongs does, indeed, show
>>>> how Washington so often serves the interests of the political right.
>>>> That’s one of the big – if deliberately ignored – takeaways from the
>>>> reaction to news that the Internal Revenue Service allegedly targeting
>>>> conservative organizations for extra scrutiny in their larger review
>>>> of political groups’ tax exempt status. In the last few days, the
>>>> allegations have generated a wave of national headlines,
>>>> a congressional investigation [3],federal legislation [4] and ever-
>>>> louder [5] calls for impeachment [6].
>>>> Considering the gravity of the allegations against the Obama IRS from
>>>> the Treasury Department’s inspector general, congressional scrutiny is
>>>> certainly warranted. However, there’s just one problem: most of the
>>>> lawmakers and pundits today decrying the use of public resources
>>>> against a White House’s political opponents had little – if anything –
>>>> to say about equally troubling revelations about the Bush
>>>> administration’s deployment of public resources against its opponents.
>>>> In fact, conservatives said so little back then that Fox News
>>>> apparently doesn’t even know [7] (or is pretending not to know) the
>>>> Bush administration used the IRS in the same way the Obama
>>>> adminstration allegedly did.
>>>> And here’s the even more incredible thing: the Bush cabal didn’t just
>>>> use the IRS for its political hackery – it mounted a full-scale
>>>> government-wide assault on its enemies, marshaling disparate agencies
>>>> in its smear efforts.
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> . . .
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>>>> Neither should be acceptable, of course. But that truism is ignored by
>>>> a hypocritical political culture whose unquestioned assumptions so
>>>> obviously favor the right.
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>>> did the Demorats investigate?
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>> it seems that bush got off scott free didn't he:)-
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> If the white president got away with it, why are the bigots claiming
> that the black president cannot get away with it?
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> Bret Cahill
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Because Obama didn't just have his hand on the cookie jar, but rather
*IN* the cookie jar up to his elbow.
I guess Obama is as incompetent as a criminal as he is as the President.
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*Rumination*
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