So you know how Republicans were saying the IRS was only targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny? We've recently found out progressive groups were targeted as well. Why wasn't this in the original report on the IRS?
The Treasury inspector general (IG) whose report helped drive the IRS targeting controversy says it limited its examination to conservative groups because of a request from House Republicans.
A spokesman for Russell George, Treasury's inspector general for tax administration, said they were asked by House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) "to narrowly focus on Tea Party organizations."
This is important. The IG's report helped create the scandal, pointing to special scrutiny applied to Tea Party groups, but ignoring comparable scrutiny of progressive organizations that didn't fully come to light until this week. Why didn't the Inspector General provide a fairer, more accurate, and more encompassing report? Because according to the IG himself, Republicans told him to paint an incomplete picture on purpose.
The whole story, the IG's office said yesterday, "was outside the scope" of the audit requested by Republican lawmakers.
It was still wrong what the IRS did. But this whole "IRS targeted conservative groups only--maybe at the behest of Obama" turns out to be another ginned-up scandal.
In the wake of a discredited 'scandal' - The Maddow Blog
So I guess INS decended upon a friend's boyfriend's place of work, where they employ 75% illegal immigrants. So of course that 75% is fired, and the biz will go, well, out of business. That just doesn't sit right. I don't know the ins and outs, but up close, what it looks like to me is all-around really fucking hardworking people out of jobs, American citizens out of jobs, clients without a trusted vendor. I'm struck by the idea that we have an organization whose job it is to go around throwing the economy into the crapper.
They're here. Try solving the problem without actually causing more harm in the process, yeah? Because, in the end, what's the gain to America?
That link leads to nothing for me, sumi. I'm a little obsessed with pen and ink at the mo.
And apparently ita !'s obsession is catching. Pen and ink please.
I'm sorry - I'm having ridiculous cut and paste issues. Try this one instead.
(Also, spelling issues.)
Holy mother, those are gorgeous.
He doesn't have an image of his whole drawing? Just 4" squares of it at a time? Yowza!!! Beautiful.
The whole story, the IG's office said yesterday, "was outside the scope" of the audit requested by Republican lawmakers.
I'm unsurprised that they also scrutinized progressive groups. Didn't they look closely at anything associated with the Occupy movement? But the line quoted above makes me laugh. Of COURSE they only gave info on what was asked for! That's a classic audited-by-the-IRS move -- only give what they directly ask for.
sumi, the intricacy on those drawings is amazing.
Did I tell you people about my new flatware? It was an insta-re-gift from my aunt, who got it for her birthday from my grandmother. I'm super excited about it, and finally started taking it out of the box, and it's service for 12! So I'm just going to take out six, and save the rest for later!
