Obama put in place stupid rules of engagement. These rules that the Allied forces are required to follow prevent them from engaging in known Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters until they have been attacked. In essence, these rules have put US and Allied troops in greater danger because they can not defend themselves until they have been attacked. More troops have died in Afghanistan under Obama's administration than under the Bush Administration.
While people that like to **** on America, like flag burners, anesthetists and socialists which comprise the democratic party may not care about this, real Americans do.
The crazies? You have something like what happens to be a fairly obvious government coverup in regards to the IRS and your only response is "But...but Bush!" Government requires trust and faith. Why should the Tea Party trust the government if it's going to put things like this and the response of the Left is "I don't give a ****?"
First of all you don't have anything like a fairly obvious govt. coverup. No tea party groups were denied the status they sought, and some left leaning groups were denied that status. Both left and right leaning groups faced the same delays. There isn't really any thing there at all.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Proposed: No gov't agency can require more accountability of a private citizen or business that it can provide itself <a href="http://t.co/BEbe9yxZjI" title="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-06-17/missing-e-mail-is-the-least-of-the-irs-s-problems" org_href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-06-17/missing-e-mail-is-the-least-of-the-irs-s-problems">bloombergview.com/articles/2014-…</a></p>— Political Math (@politicalmath) <a href="https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/479054336278818818" data-datetime="2014-06-17T19:13:48+00:00">June 17, 2014</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Eh, I got worse than that for posting a not-spoiler in the "Game of Thrones" thread. All in stride, all in stride. That sounds positively benign for this folder.
Real 'mericans will not be anesthetized by liberals! Just give them a slug of whiskey and a bullet to bite do on like in movies
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Nikole Flax, whose emails the IRS “lost”, sure visited the White House a lot. <a href="http://t.co/T7PAp1KSsr">pic.twitter.com/T7PAp1KSsr</a></p>— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnEkdahl/statuses/478946855275868160">June 17, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The response isn't that they don't give a ****, the response is that this issue has been investigated and found to have no connection to the White House, no partisan targeting (as left leaning groups were similarly scrutinized), in other words, nothing scandalous.
Oh, tying it into the White House is stupid. It's similar to Benghazi - that was rank incompetence by the State Department and I think Clinton should have resigned, but I view that as a bureaucratic failure as opposed to something Obama did wrong. But while it is true that while some left leaning groups were scrunitized, the IRS has targeted conservative organizations worse. Hence why only 6 progressive organizations received additional scrutiny as opposed to all of the conservative ones.
Really? I heard the numbers of scrutinized were roughly similar, that all conservative groups were eventually approved, but that some progressive groups were denied. Perhaps you should check or post your source.
How many conservative groups were denied the status they sought? The answer is ZERO. Some left leaning groups were denied. There is no scandal here.
One of the strengths of the right wing propaganda machine is that once many of their stories are debunked most folks don't get e news. Recently I talked to an attorney who still believed the original right wing story about how conservative groups were targetted so unjustly.
Denied? None. Left in limbo for months if not years, thus hampering the organizations of non-profits? Not zero. I mean, at this point, the IRS itself has admitted that it unfairly targeted conservative groups over a year ago. Now, I certainly don't think that it was done at the orders of President Obama or whatever, but was rather the result of an overzealous bureaucracy. But to plug your years and go "The IRS is perfectly fine, nothing wrong happened here, lalalalala" is also ridiculous.
