On the segment Really! with Seth and Amy, Saturday Night Live [...]]]> Twitchy shines a light on some tweets by comedians Elayne Boosler and Bill Maher, who used an identical argument to admonish the tea party.  That if the tea party had just not been opposed to taxes, they wouldn’t have gotten the treatment.

On the segment Really! with Seth and Amy, Saturday Night Live player Amy Poehler used the same tack to suggest that the tea party had it coming.  ”Really, Tea Party, really?  You’re surprised you are targeted by the IRS?  You named yourself after a group of people who proudly and historically violated tax laws.  Look, if I had a vanity license plate that said, “Weed 420″, I might expect to get pulled over now and then.”

These are comedians. So laugh.

Representative Brady was right to ask the question “Is this still America?” of the IRS chief last week, but it implies that the government would never use its power to single out people who look or think a certain way.  There are cases where unjust profiling has been used by law enforcement and this isn’t the first rodeo for conservative groups getting the treatment from the IRS.

But the issue is whether the government has the authority to control an individual or group of individuals based on their opposition to its policies. The argument from the left concedes that privilege is vested in those who control the governing authority.  How does this rationale fit in with the rest of the left’s concurrence with the sovereignty of big government?

It is said, redundantly, that one’s individual rights should be weighed against the good of the whole.  Yet, when an expression of thought lands on the back bumper of your car, or a sign at a rally, or your license plate, you are to expect to be scrutinized as an individual by authority.  Government abuse of the individual is not any different from their mantra and institutionalized belief system that the ‘man is trying to keep you down,’ so rise up and ‘fight the power’ of corporations, industrialists and the rich, except for the fact that an individual, a corporation, or an industrialist cannot force you to buy into their perceived scheme.  The government can, and is reflected by the view of those who reject their own sovereignty, that the government is the ultimate authority.

It’s all about coercion.  The plain fact is that a corporate head can’t make you buy his product, but the government can make you, under penalty of fines or jail, purchase your freedom of harassment by compliance.

Yet that is how the IRS is set up, and now, they are moving into the great uncharted waters of forcing compliance to a newly created, hyper-partisan healthcare law, the keystone of which is a coercive mandate to purchase that which you may not want, nor have funds for.

No accommodation has been made for you as an individual, especially if you have complained, because the all-powerful government has determined that your problems are to be ignored for the good of the whole.

Isn’t the ultimate argument against slavery, the fact that one man cannot own another?  That one cannot exert control over another, force him to perform tasks under threat of abuse?

Conservatives argue, in varying degrees, that the individual is the ultimate minority, and that good government respects the diversity of thought and ingenuity of each individual contribution.  Our Bill of Rights guarantee freedom of expression in matters of politics, religion, and includes the written and spoken word.  It is that expression that is under attack from a government whose ultimate authority was set up to be in the hands of the people.  The ultimate authority was vested in the people, not whoever was elected to govern.

The suggestion that someone ‘had it coming,’ tells of the mindset and hypocrisy of the left, and blows to smithereens the assumption that we are created equal, as written in the Declaration of Independence.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

Independent thought and the expression of it, is a guaranteed right, not by the authority of government, but by the authority of our Creator.  It is a faith in government, or more pointedly, a faith in man, that hands us over to his abuses.

Certain government spokespeople, most notably, Pelosi‘s rant about “anti-government ideology,” and Harry Reid‘s assumptions “against government in any form,” stand by their rhetoric that the tea party, and its political allies, are against government. But the crux of the matter is not that patriotic Americans are against government, but that an all-powerful government stands against us.

If silly, thought-deficient comedic expression attempts to justify the actions of the controlling authority, it’s not only not funny, but offers the ‘powers that be’ a pass on selective abuse, and subverts individuality of thought in favor of a government’s insistence to its current norm.

Power to the people.

The IRS will also decide who is, and who is not, eligible for Obamacare’s subsidies. The law authorizes the IRS to share confidential taxpayer information with the Department of Health and [...]]]> Byron York of the Washington Examiner wrote yesterday that the IRS scandal could lead to fears about the agency’s role in enforcing Obamacare.

The IRS will also decide who is, and who is not, eligible for Obamacare’s subsidies. The law authorizes the IRS to share confidential taxpayer information with the Department of Health and Human Services for the purpose of determining those subsidies.

In addition, the IRS will keep track of even the smallest changes in Americans’ financial condition. Did you get a raise recently? You’ll need to notify the IRS; it might affect your subsidy status. Have your hours been reduced at work? Notify the IRS. Change jobs? Same.

Those fears have been ongoing since Obamacare was first rammed through. Financial worries and concern over loss of property, along with the stress of a “new normal” sluggish economy have been at the top of the list of most thinking Americans.

Knowing what we are truly facing in a fiscal sense has dominated our lives, but the real fear that this IRS scandal raises is whether the “confidential taxpayer information” that IRS and HHS will be sharing will include political information.

If the IRS can flag your information and slow things down on something like tax exempt status, can they do it when determining our use of health care? Clearly, the possibility is there.

If you consider that the IRS can, while threatening financial penalties, force you to give them information that they will share with your political enemies and HHS, who could very well be the ultimate decision maker on whether or not you or your mother gets a life-saving procedure, well, that is fear, my friend.

The way that the IPAB or “death panel” works is that if Medicare costs get too high, it triggers a 15 member panel of political appointees who will recommend what gets cut. If the panel doesn’t do its job, Sebelius makes the recommendation and sends it to congress. The whole thing is set up, on its face, as a bipartisan attempt to control costs in healthcare, because isn’t that why the ACA was needed in the first place? Healthcare is just so darned expensive.

The real target of the IPAB is end of life care, intensive care, life support, and quality of life management. We all remember Obama’s reply to Jane Sturm when she questioned him about a pacemaker for her 100 year old mother. He said,

“I don’t think that we can make judgments based on people’s ‘spirit.’ That would be a pretty subjective decision to be making. I think we have to have rules that say that we are going to provide good quality care for all people. End-of-life care is one of the most difficult sets of decisions that we’re going to have to make. But understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another. If they’re not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they’re being made by private insurers. At least we can let doctors know — and your mom know — that you know what, maybe this isn’t going to help. Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.”

Obama has targeted the tea party in speeches and at fundraising events, and in doing so, apparently set policy for the IRS. The answer to Jane Sturm sets HHS policy, doesn’t it? But here is the other side of that IRS coin, let’s say that the IPAB determines that all pacemakers are outlawed over 75, and someone well-connected politically to the ruling party wants their mom to receive one. It’s not a leap to understand that she’ll get a waiver and your conservative mother will get a pill.

It’s not a leap because waivers have already been given politically, and conservatives have already been flagged by the IRS, and the IRS has already shared their information with well-funded political enemies.

The assumption that justice is blind is obliterated. A child could point out ‘which of these things’ aren’t fair.

It is sometimes frustrating to hear political messaging that continuously points out the cost to the taxpayer. It most certainly is on the minds of taxpayers, and we all see these costs coming, we just aren’t sure yet of the actual numbers. But, how can we not think, especially now, how our political activity might determine our care?

When the ACA was passed, John Dingell, a Democrat congressman from Michigan said,

The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re going to pass legislation that will cover 300 American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.

Controlling the people is what animates progressives.  They thrive on micromanaging people, and using social justice to force equal outcomes.  If you disagree with them they force you to agree, especially when they are in positions of power.  It’s their philosophy.

From the get-go conservatives have warned about the danger of a federal government so powerful that it could extinguish your dreams, your hopes for your future, your ability to get ahead, and your freedom in general.

The American way is to allow individuals the freedom to make their own choices with their own ability to make their own life.    You have within you the intelligence, the determination and the spirit to make and reach goals and achieve success.  That way has been knocked down and trampled upon because power-hungry progressive politicians have decided they are the new royalty, who will be making all of your decisions for you.

They have all control.

Representative Frank Wolf has 146 Co-Sponsors to House Resolution 36, which calls for a Select Committee to investigate the attack on Benghazi.

According to [...]]]> I don’t know about you, but I kind of resent that I have to repeatedly beg a few men in a far off city to do the right thing.

Representative Frank Wolf has 146 Co-Sponsors to House Resolution 36, which calls for a Select Committee to investigate the attack on Benghazi.

According to The Hill, while many of the members of the committees that oversee this issue have signed on to HR 36, the chairmen of those committees and Speaker Boehner stand against a select committee.

The Chairmen in question are:

Chairman of the Intelligence Committee: Mike Rogers R-MI
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee: Bob Goodlatte R-VA
Chairman of Oversight and Government Reform: Darrell Issa R-CA
Chairman of Armed Services: Howard “Buck” McKeon R-CA
Chairman of Foreign Affairs: Ed Royce R-CA

These five men and Boehner need to support a Select Committee so that focus on this issue is not lost due to competing scandals and liberal bombthrowers.

As Former Senator and Presidential candidate, Fred Thompson wrote yesterday in, “Why We Need a Special Committee” at NRO:

The stakes are extremely high for the administration, and it is likely to use everything at its disposal to thwart any investigation and resist disclosure. There are several well-worn tactics available to them, including ongoing criminal investigations and the veil of security clearances.

The administration may purposefully direct information to the intelligence committee because they know it cannot be shared with other committees. When the White House and other executive offices are probed, claims of executive privilege can be expected. Legal battles may ensue. Material will be withheld with the excuse, “We’ve already turned over thousands of documents,” regardless of their relevance or the importance of what is being withheld.

There will be delay, delay, delay, then the release of select information late on Friday afternoon, to be called, when it is subsequently brought up in the committee, “old news.” Or there will be information turned over to the committee then leaked, so the committee can be blamed, providing an excuse to slow walk or deny them further information. Every attempt will be made to discredit an investigating committee and its members.

It seems to me that an administrative counter-offensive has begun through leaks to the press. McClatchy is reporting that “officials” are saying that Chris Stevens rejected security twice before the attack. Within the story, it is revealed that Chairman Issa may have known about the refusals. There we have, in my opinion and as Thompson points out, “…information turned over to the committee then leaked, so the committee can be blamed, providing an excuse to slow walk or deny them further information.”

Patriots, especially from the States of California, Michigan and Virginia, need to contact the offices of the chairs of these committees, and they need to persuade them to support a Select Committee on Benghazi. We need to squarely focus on this topic, amidst all the other scandals that are rocking the administration.

The liberal news sites are saying that they are really concerned over the IRS targeting conservatives, (right), and are simply outraged over Obama tapping the phones of the AP, (sure), but what do they say about the murder of our boys in Benghazi? A “phony” scandal. Just like, “What difference does it make?” or, “There is no there, there.”

Once again, it is up the nation’s patriots to call, fax, or email the chairmen of these committees so that the truth of Benghazi is completely exposed.

And by the way, if you do not see your congressman on this list of co-sponsors for Frank Wolf’s resolution, you also need to get them on board asap.

Congress ignored the pleas from tea party conservatives last year when they were under attack by this administration via the IRS. Now, Camp is saying he wants Obama to apologize.

It seems our gang of 8 wishes to fix illegal immigration, so they decided to legalize the behavior, so they can say, there, we fixed [...]]]> I was given a movie called, “They come to America II” by Dennis Michael Lynch. It deals with illegal immigration through the eyes of a person who lived through 9/11.

It seems our gang of 8 wishes to fix illegal immigration, so they decided to legalize the behavior, so they can say, there, we fixed it. But the film goes through and shows the porousness of the border, how very disconnected DC is to the problem, how Obama’s rhetoric sounds great, but will leave immigrants with nothing, and how there is increased danger at the border of terrorists getting through and roaming freely about the country.

Most of the Americans that Lynch spoke with resented the fact that these immigration discussions paint them as racists, when there are serious problems that will come from allowing 11 million people full citizenship. The people he met at job fairs, in unemployment lines, and on the streets, can see the problem much quicker than politicians in a distant capital. They are already competing for jobs, and they see that adding more people to a tough job market will make them lose hope. The dignity of a job will not be found for those unemployed, nor for the amnestied.

The film also raises a perfectly good question from my perspective as a Republican; With the Republican party pushing hard for this immigration bill, so that, as John McCain says, ‘we can start having a dialogue,’ how many voters will the GOP lose when they find out who was complicit is killing their chances at a job?

Lynch’s film got me thinking about this issue.

Amnesty or path to citizenship is wrong for two major reasons in my view. One, it puts an even bigger burden on competitive job openings, leading to an increase in entitlement spending, and two, if people are not clamoring to become citizens now, why would they take these steps?

It seems to me that the immigration bill is voluntary for illegal immigrants but mandatory for taxpayers.

There is another component that shows a major disconnect between the people and those in government, and although many congresspeople have been elected by playing up their ‘come from nothing’ status, it is lost once they begin to sound like all the blowhards before them. America is being indirectly pushed by the overall psyche of the hard left. That is, they feel America has been too lush, powerful, successful, and we are supposed to feel guilt because we have been born into a society that has everything going for it. So the left uses fractured arguments from Christianity, and guilt to persuade us that we really need to give others a chance at what we have, by giving it all to them, and preferably at the same time, hobble ourselves so we really show that we are aware of our undeserved fortune. So politicians, who actually are living in the lap of luxury, make decisions for us using logic that is foreign to us that actually ruins us, because their perception of the Nation is completely wrong.

Lynch rightly points out that it is through the blood of those who have fought and died for freedom in this nation who have paid the price for us.

The Obama Administration is following through on its stated intentions to slow down the American economy, and now the GOP is working within his plan to push hard to exacerbate the problem of unemployment. This creates a feeling across the nation among regular citizens, that there is nobody listening to them. Instead, we are listening to a campaign on TV and radio about supporting a bill that does not do what the salesmen say it does.

Lynch discusses the porousness of the southern border with Congressman Pete King, and touches on the fact that Hezbollah is working directly with the Mexican drug cartels, and the fear is they are or will soon be getting in the US. A lack of manpower is obvious and regular citizen volunteers dedicate and risk their lives to enforce the law. You can completely reject Napolitano when she insists the border has never been more secure, and further, you can reject Rubio’s salesmanship once you read that “The Secretary Shall” appears 87 times in the bill.

All overtures of bipartisanship will vanish when the administration gets it signed. Besides, this President has already said numerous times he has no intention of enforcing some laws, why should this be any different?

Especially eye-opening was the work Lynch did with the volunteers in Texas. They point out that while normal everyday citizens are working the borders where there is no government manpower, politicians rely on reports from their own departments. So the government is giving a rosy picture to keep the status quo.

The most gripping part of the film is when Lynch becomes a pseudo-illegal and goes to Mexico to try an experiment.

In the film, using glasses that record his travel, Lynch crosses the border, gets in a car, drives past border patrol, changes vehicles and drives to Virginia. He has what looks like a bomb in the back of his jeep which can be seen through the back window, gets out at the Amtrak in Virginia, workers there inspect the outside of his vehicle, wish him a nice day, and not once did anyone ever ask him for identification.

In all the bills of the past, there has been nothing but broken promises from politicians on the right and the left. That is the bipartisan promise here, that’s what this gang of 8 represents. But, as Lynch points out, the people clamoring for this new bill, will be left in the cold just like the last time, and we will never fix the system if we do not address the problem.

Border security is first.

The disconnect lies in the ideology of the Secretary and Administration, and the facts on the ground. As a Republican, I wish my side would understand how to talk to regular Americans, but instead, they have adopted the rhetoric of the left, and it leaves the average American with no place to feel welcome.

This film shows the porousness of the southern border and shows actual, real volunteers and border agents who know what is happening, in direct opposition to the Secretary’s insistence. The border is not secure, and it is clear they don’t want it to be so.

I keep hearing about how we will be at 90% turn back rate, but we are no where near that now. You are going to need an army of border agents running constantly, and an administration that doesn’t turn a blind eye to illegal border crossings, and it is not only naive, but insane to believe that will happen with this lot in charge.

Since enhanced border security measures have been put forward by Senator Cruz, and rejected by the Senate, the issue needs to be dropped, and we need to scrap the bill and start over, some other time, with a different administration.

I would like to thank Dennis Michael Lynch for putting this together, and hope everyone grabs the film so you can see for yourself. You can visit his website here.

I would also like to thank my good friends, the ladies of 100 Percent Fed UP, who were kind enough to send me the film, and help promote this effort.

For a conservative perspective of the bill, click here.

The left will condemn him, but they will defend the practice of aborting children up to birth, because the left is anti-human, pro-death. Never forget that.

These murders are shocking, but remember the President of [...]]]> Gosnell was found guilty of three counts of first degree murder of babies who lived after his abortion services.

The left will condemn him, but they will defend the practice of aborting children up to birth, because the left is anti-human, pro-death. Never forget that.

These murders are shocking, but remember the President of the United States argued in favor of allowing children to die if they were victims of botched abortions while he was a State Senator in Illinois.

And for the record, I’d like to reopen the “Greedy Doctors” argument from Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Greedy Gosnel the Butcher.

Here is a collection of internet addresses of stories I collected as this story began. I’m not linking to them all, just copy and paste in your web browser if you have the stomach.

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/12/there_is_no_gosnell_coverup/

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/04/12/kermit_gosnell_the_alleged_mass_murderer_and_the_bored_media.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/why-dr-kermit-gosnells-trial-should-be-a-front-page-story/274944/

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/12/conservatives_should_look_inward_on_gosnell_blackout/

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/getreligion/2013/04/a-wapo-reporter-explains-her-personal-gosnell-blackout/

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/04/12/Photo-Empty-Reserved-Media-Seating-at-Abortion-Doc-Trial

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/04/10/philadelphia-abortion-clinic-horror-column/2072577/

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/04/11/Post-Reporter-Gosnell-is-Just-a-Local-Crime-Story

http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/345399/horror-media-cant-bring-itself-cover

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/04/13/Media-Acknowledge-Blowing-Gosnell-Story-Pledge-Extensive-Coverage?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/04/12/must-see-documentary-about-gosnell-clinictying-women-to-bed-forcing-abortions-on-them-dead-babies-in-jars-and-the-special-room-for-the-white-women/

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2013/04/13/ap-finally-applies-abortion-tag-its-20th-big-story-item-gosnell-then-rel

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/why_the_united_states_is_a_dying_country.html

http://theothermccain.com/2013/04/12/the-gosnell-horror-prompts-flashback-to-bush-derangement-syndrome/#.UWjamUlbGPE.twitter

http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/boom-conservatives-hammer-despicable.html

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Horrors-Trial-Roundup-A-Lack-of-Coverage-200218401.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_PHBrand

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/04/13/pro-life-supporters-to-blame-for-gosnell-says-salon-writer/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Tatler

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/theanchoress/2013/04/12/is-turn-in-gosnell-awareness-a-wave-in-tide-of-gods-mercy/

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/abortionist-slit-born-babys-necks-front-teenager-told-assistant-thats-what-you-call

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/04/13/philly-abortion-doctor-kermit-gosnells-website-openly-offered-late-term-abortions/

http://blogs.phillymag.com/the_philly_post/2013/04/12/video-kermit-gosnell-documentary-3801-lancaster/#.UWnifTcyr9w.twitter

http://blogs.phillymag.com/the_philly_post/2013/04/12/philadelphia-abortion-doctor-kermit-gosnell-botched-lawsuit/#.UWniyZj-p0k.twitter

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/21/woman-late-term-abortion-bled-to-death/1935799/

http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/04/grassroots-gosnell-tweetfest-versus-obama-manufactured-anti-gun-thunderclap/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29

http://www.veria.com/pregnancy-parenting/40-weeks-pregnant-possible-post-term-popping?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=Pregnancy-and-Parenting

http://aclj.org/media-abortion-distortion-plays-abortion-industry-deception

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/04/kermit-gosnell-and-the-media-161536.html?hp=r18

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/14/More-PA-Dept-Officials-Ignored-Severe-Complaints-Against-Gosnell

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/14/PA-Dept-Health-Official-Tried-To-Help-Ignored-By-Superiors

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324030704578422883948238160.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/15/ben_smith_blames_the_right_for_conditions_of_gosnell_abortion_clinic.html

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/16/theblaze-goes-inside-philly-abortion-doctors-shocking-murder-trial-and-more-disturbing-details-emerge-warning-graphic/

http://bostonglobe.com/2013/04/15/gGfFH99UuwAcCjlSg5jE8M/story.html

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/04/15/reduce_access_to_safe_abortion_and_black_markets_will_flourish_how_kermit.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/04/15/kermit-gosnell-trial-its-about-more-than-politics/

http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=181058

http://mashable.com/2013/04/18/3d-ultrasound-color-baby/

http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/04/matthew_davis_trial_of_grisly.html

http://culturecampaign.blogspot.com/2013/04/fetuses-plugged-kermit-abortionists.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/20/gosnell-worker-testifies-to-seeing-baby-make-swimming-motion-in-toilet/

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gosnell-trial-witness-baby-abortion-survivor-was-swimming-toilet-trying-get-out

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/346653/%E2%80%98-murder-and-it-must-be-stopped%E2%80%99

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/26/the-truth-about-kermit-gosnell-the-media-wont-tell-you/

https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/posts/10151582270888588

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100214113/gosnell-the-baby-killer-and-the-liberals-who-shielded-him/

http://www.therightscoop.com/institution-of-marriage-should-not-exist-gay-activist-admits-we-lie-that-marriage-wont-change/

http://www.therightscoop.com/horrifying-nyc-abortion-worker-tells-woman-to-flush-it-if-baby-born-alive/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/04/29/gosnells-abortion-atrocities-no-aberration-column/2122235/

http://culturecampaign.blogspot.com/2013/04/more-abortionists-admit-killing-kids.html

http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/22104

http://www.therightscoop.com/we-will-not-resuscitate-another-abortion-provider-promising-infanticide-if-baby-born-alive/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/jury-split-on-2-counts-in-trial-over-deaths-of-woman-babies-at-philly-abortion-clinic/2013/05/13/77105954-bbda-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_story.html

But let’s remember the original sideshow, the parading of the “Innocence of Muslims” filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, four days after the attack on Benghazi, in a continuous attempt to blame the filmmaker for the Libyan atrocity.

Obama said today that [...]]]> President Obama said today that the Benghazi hearings are simply a sideshow.

But let’s remember the original sideshow, the parading of the “Innocence of Muslims” filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, four days after the attack on Benghazi, in a continuous attempt to blame the filmmaker for the Libyan atrocity.

Obama said today that nobody understood what had happened in Benghazi in the first few days.

That is a direct message that Clinton has to refute Hicks’ testimony, and that is precisely why Boehner needs to move ahead immediately with a Select Committee.

Clinton and Hicks under oath will get us closer to who gave the orders to stand down, and where Obama was for 7 hours during this terrorist attack on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11.

For once, Boehner can prove he’s not a crying sissy pants and immediately call for a select committee on Benghazi and blow this scandal up right now. Those boys who died are our boys, we Americans cannot sit back and allow [...]]]> According to the biased Politico, John Boehner is like, totally obsessed with Benghazi.

For once, Boehner can prove he’s not a crying sissy pants and immediately call for a select committee on Benghazi and blow this scandal up right now. Those boys who died are our boys, we Americans cannot sit back and allow politicians and bureaucrats to get away scott free when our boys didn’t have to die.

We just celebrated Mother’s Day, and we have to watch the Moms and Dads of not only the Benghazi boys but of the Seal Team 6 boys demand answers from an administration that can’t seem to do anything but blame Republicans.

Don’t waste our time with a repeal vote, you have the power to seek answers under oath. Use it.

We are fighting for the survival of the country, we shouldn’t have to fight the leadership of our party.

In fact, be aware that if Boehner doesn’t call for a Select Committee, 2014 will be a complete disaster. The Republican Party cannot win without the grassroots, and right now, we can’t really think of many things the current leadership of the Republican party stands for.

Stand with those parents, and get to the bottom of why the administration lied about protests when they knew it was terrorism. Who gave the order to stand down? Make it known why the FBI couldn’t get over there for three weeks after the firefight. What happened to Chris Stevens when he was taken to the enemy hospital?

John Boehner, you have the power to get this rolling, and 62% of your House Republicans are sponsoring a bill, get it done.

On August 2, 2012, The House Oversight Committee held hearings, led by Chairman Issa, with IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, among others, questioning how the IRS can basically write law, [...]]]> Newt Gingrich is right, the IRS scandal will be a huge problem for the Obama administration. That is, as long as Congress sticks with it.

On August 2, 2012, The House Oversight Committee held hearings, led by Chairman Issa, with IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, among others, questioning how the IRS can basically write law, based on it’s interpretation of The Affordable Care Act.

Chairman ISSA. You have done, the IRS has done a selective outreach based oObamaCare or the ACA’s benefits. You said it in your testimony.  You sent out millions of post cards doing an outreach to educate people as to the law’s benefit or tax credit to small business, correct?

Mr. SHULMAN. We did send out tax credits.

Chairman ISSA. Do you plan on sending post cards out to tell people about the tax increases?

Mr. SHULMAN. No.

Chairman ISSA. So you are only telling people, the IRS is only telling people about the good news and not telling them about tax increases. Aren’t tax increases more something you need to know about in advance for planning than windfalls of money? I grew up in a neighborhood where that windfall is [foreign word], it is found money. This isn’t what you need warning for. You don’t need warning about good news; you need warning about tax increases, don’t you?

Mr. SHULMAN. We do extensive outreach on all tax provisions,
and we have started——

Chairman ISSA. But you are not sending any indication to small businesses about the tax increases they are going to see under ObamaCare?

Mr. SHULMAN. We have done extensive outreach and we do it based on looking at what’s the best way to get the word out for different pieces. I think right now we are working with the preparer community and business community to work through, a, getting our systems in place in a way that works well, getting the interaction——

All the good news about your lovely government takeover, by your “independent” taxing authority behemoth.  Shulman goes on to say that he’s quite baffled at how anything like taxation could be bad news.  But Issa shows in this next bit, that if the IRS is an independent agency, it really does not have either the authority to unilaterally delay, nor does it have the authority to write law.

Chairman ISSA. Well, speaking of the systems, under ObamaCare Section 9002 you were required to deal with the W–2 forms, and yet you unilaterally delayed reporting requirements. In other words, this piece of bad news is not going out that otherwise would have made it clear that, again, tax increases, right?

Mr. SHULMAN. Are you referring to the requirement that employers——

Chairman ISSA. Put a value of health insurance benefits on the
Mr. SHULMAN. How much they paid for their health insurance.

Chairman ISSA. Right.

Mr. SHULMAN. No, we actually delayed the reporting requirement at the request of our information reporting committee that works with us regularly because they couldn’t get their systems ready.

Chairman ISSA. They couldn’t get their systems ready?

Mr. SHULMAN. We had a lot of feedback from the business community that——

I wish Issa would have let him finish that sentence.

Chairman ISSA. Well, let’s go through that. There is Paychecks and ADP. They both got it ready. They are both able to do it.
Mr. SHULMAN. So I am——

Chairman ISSA. I am trying to understand. This was something that I think many people who want folks to understand, this is sort of the bad news again. This is letting people know how much is already being paid in. The question is: where did you get the authority to unilaterally delay? You are saying it is based on not being ready, and yet the vast majority of these things, either you could have allowed a waiver and yet still implemented for those who are ready, and if someone was using Paychecks or ADP they would have been ready and it would have happened, right?

Mr. SHULMAN. That is not my understanding. So my understanding is that this reporting, which I guess I am confused about it being bad news, this is just saying how much your current employer pays for your health insurance.

Read the whole testimony. Especially Representative DesJarlais’ point about how the IRS is actively interpreting the law precisely because the law has so many flaws and inconsistencies, which the Democrats knew about but they rushed it through anyway.  Nancy Pelosi’s words, “We have to pass it to see what’s in it,” is clearly being disseminated by the so-called independent IRS.

For instance, DesJarlais points out that the law’s intent was to have States set up exchanges, and said so repeatedly in the bill, but the fact that the IRS is implementing the law, they seem to find an interpretation that it was to really be Federally run exchanges.  Shulman dutifully defends IRS lawyers, who are interpreting  a law that has never been complete.  To this date, thousands more pages of regulations put out by HHS cause more ‘interpreting’ by other agencies.

If the IRS’s tax exempt division is clearly targeting certain conservative groups who are the main objectors to Obamacare, how are we to know that the implementation division of Obamacare isn’t targeting them as well?  How long do you get to be on hold with the IRS when they make a mistake?  Will you be flagged as a business owner who advocates against Obamacare once they check your social sites?

This whole thing is massive, politically charged, in your face, and ain’t going away.