The White House defends the woman who was in charge of the IRS office when it harassed conservatives organizations and now runs the IRS Obamacare office.
The White House defends Sarah Hall Ingram, the person who had been in charge of the IRS office when it harassed conservatives organizations from 2009 to 2012 and now runs the IRS Obamacare office.
If President Obama was so outraged about this scandal, as he claims, you would think he’d tell his minions that it ain’t appropriate to defend this person. Instead, you’d think he’d be doing what he can to get her removed from a position of power.
Instead, Ingram received a promotion and the largest amount of bonuses of any IRS employee. Moreover, the bonuses from 2010 to 2012 were all greater than $25K per year and thus required Obama’s approval to be issued. And she is still in charge of the IRS Obamacare office.
Sounds to me that, to Obama, her harassment of conservatives at the IRS was a job well done.
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The White House defends Sarah Hall Ingram, the person who had been in charge of the IRS office when it harassed conservatives organizations from 2009 to 2012 and now runs the IRS Obamacare office.
If President Obama was so outraged about this scandal, as he claims, you would think he’d tell his minions that it ain’t appropriate to defend this person. Instead, you’d think he’d be doing what he can to get her removed from a position of power.
Instead, Ingram received a promotion and the largest amount of bonuses of any IRS employee. Moreover, the bonuses from 2010 to 2012 were all greater than $25K per year and thus required Obama’s approval to be issued. And she is still in charge of the IRS Obamacare office.
Sounds to me that, to Obama, her harassment of conservatives at the IRS was a job well done.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Yes indeed, it would seem she should have been the very first person removed.
My guess is she knows too much to be thrown under the bus. If she talks, she might bring down the Administration. Somebody had to coordinate attacks on conservative groups with the FBI, ATF, DOJ, DOL, etc.
The solution: SUBPOENA
There can be no executive priviledge here.
Watching the President and his spokesman Jay Carney speak, has to my ears and reason, become a routine experience of the exercise of political doublespeak and dishonesty.
When the administration adopts talking points by agencies and talks them to the public and the press, and fails to VERIFY the accuracy of events, they either are: 1. lying to the American public or 2. failing to perform. Or both.
Saying ‘I didn’t know’ about these events (recent scandals) or they are non-events, or are irrelevant, demonstrates a culture of unaccountability at best, or a culture of deception, assuming the worst. With politicians, it’s wise to suspect the worst.
It seems as if their doublespeak and outright lies may catch up with them.
The wages of deceit will be realized in time.
True but it is his job to give the administration’s spin. It is the same in every administration. The job is not to be truth teller, that is what we are supposed to have news media for.
I put less blame on Carney than on the media who has failed to question the administration’s stories and on Obama whose actions require such disingenuous defenses.
The IRS harassment of conservatives and the White House treatment of Sarah Hall Ingram remind me of the speech in which Obama declared his policy of punishing his enemies and rewarding his friends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeT67BvYzo4 (12 seconds)
He punishes his enemies through the bullies at the IRS (and SEC, DOJ, EPA, HHS, et cetera ad nausium) and rewards his friends such as Ingram through promotion and public defense.