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Rush Limbaugh – We’re Witnessing What Happens When Liberalism Rules

Posted May 19, 2013 by Tea Party

(Rush Limbaugh) – It’s Bigger Than Obama — We’re Witnessing What Happens When Liberalism Rules. BEGIN TRANSCRIPT – RUSH: I am getting the sense that there is an effervescing rage in the country over what is happening. If you’re watching these hearings today, if you are listening to the media, I hate to say, “I [...]

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NAACP: It’s good IRS targeted tea partiers

Posted May 14, 2013 by Tea Party

‘Here are a group of people who are admittedly racist’ (The Blaze) – Julian Bond, chairman emeritus of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said Tuesday that he supports the Internal Revenue Service’s political targeting of Tea Party groups because “they are the Taliban wing of American politics.” And he doesn’t [...]

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IRS Intimidation Forced Local Tea Party Group to Shut Down

Posted May 14, 2013 by Tea Party

(Breitbart) – The IRS scandal is growing by leaps and bounds in a way that must be terrifying to an Administration already dealing with fallout from the uncovering of their Libya lies and the knowledge that the Department of Justice seized the phone records of 20 Associated Press reporters. Tuesday morning, ABC News revealed what [...]

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Carney on IRS: Can’t Be Sure Something ‘Inappropriate’ Happened

Posted May 14, 2013 by Tea Party

(Weekly Standard) – “If I could then goo back to the IRS issue,” said a reporter from the AP. “The president did use the word ‘if these activities had taken place,’ but there has been an acknowledgement on the part of the IRS leadership that these things did indeed occur. I wondered why the president [...]

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Tea party groups threaten to sue IRS

Posted May 13, 2013 by Tea Party

(Politico) – Tea party groups on Monday are threatening to sue the Internal Revenue Service after the agency admitted last week that it wrongly targeted conservative groups applying for nonprofit status. The agency has maintained that although its actions were inappropriate, laws weren’t broken. FAX BLAST SPECIAL: Impeach Obama NOW! The IRS said on Friday [...]

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McConnell: IRS Revelations ‘Just The Beginning’

Posted May 13, 2013 by Tea Party

(Breitbart) – On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fired back on assertions by the IRS that its efforts to target conservative groups were relegated to low-level employees. “Of course not,” he told Breitbart News. McConnell noted that he had raised the issue of IRS targeting of conservatives in 2012, and further noted that [...]

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OBAMA ‘ENEMIES LIST’…IRS scrutiny went beyond Tea Party

Posted May 13, 2013 by Tea Party

Expands To Groups Opposed To Gov’t, Teaching Constitution… (Fox News) – An IRS campaign to apply additional scrutiny to conservative groups went beyond targeting “Tea Party” and “patriot” groups to include those focused on government spending, the Constitution and several other broad areas. The additional guidelines created by the agency were part of a timeline, [...]

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IRS targeted groups that criticized the government, IG report says

Posted May 12, 2013 by Tea Party

(Washington Post) – At various points over the past two years, Internal Revenue Service officials targeted nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution, according to documents in an audit conducted by the agency’s inspector general. The documents, obtained by The Washington Post  from a congressional aide with [...]

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House committee to IRS: ‘Provide All Communications Containing Words ‘Tea Party,’ By Wed

Posted May 12, 2013 by Tea Party

(CNS News) – The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight has thrown down an investigative gauntlet to the Internal Revenue Service, demanding that the agency hand over by next Wednesday every communication in its records that includes the words “tea party,” “patriot” or “conservative.” The committee is also demanding of the IRS that by [...]

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Report: IRS Officials Knew Tea Party Were Being Targeted in 2011

Posted May 12, 2013 by Tea Party

(Breitbart) – An Inspector General report indicates that IRS officials knew as early as 2011 that conservative groups were being targeted for additional scrutiny in determing tax-exempt status, contradicting previous statements by the agency. On Friday, the IRS admitted to and apologized for targeting groups that had the words “Tea Party” or “patriots” in their [...]

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