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GOP congressman outraged IRS didn't investigate how Harry Reid 'obtained' Mitt Romney's tax returns

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:35:21 GMT

Source: www.dailykos.com --- Friday, May 24, 2013
Harry Reid's gambit continues to live on Just when you thought you couldn't possibly get another laugh out of Harry Reid's claim that an anonymous source had told him Mitt Romney hadn't paid a single dime in taxes over the past decade, along comes this sublime moment from GOP congressman Paul Gosar during Wednesday's House Government Oversight Committee's IRS hearing: REP. PAUL GOSAR (R-AZ): Are you aware that in July, 2012, Senator Harry Reid claimed Mitt Romney hadn't paid taxes for the last 10 years and claimed to have the information supporting that? Are you aware of that? I'm sure you are. FORMER IRS COMMISSIONER DOUGLAS SHULMAN: I have a recollection of reading that in the paper. GOSAR: Do you know how Mr. Reid obtained that information? Did you look into this? SHULMAN: I -- I have no idea how he... GOSAR: Doesn't that alarm you that -- all of a sudden, this pertinent information comes up, you're the head of this agency, and you're not asking questions? Shame on you. Absolutely shame on you. Yes, shame on you Mr. Shulman! Shame on you, because when Harry Reid released that "pertinent information" the first thing the IRS should have done was to launch a probe into how Reid obtained it. If anything, Gosar went too easy on Shulman, because from the moment Shulman became of aware of Reid's obviously accurate and carefully documented bombshell, he should have put an entire team of investigators on the case. The fact that he didn' ...

“Coburn: Constituents linking IRS audits to Mitt Romney donations”

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:09:15 GMT

Source: therealrevo.com --- Friday, May 24, 2013
So, is anyone going to call into question the validity of the 2012 Presidential election? From The Hill : Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said Thursday his constituents have suggested they were audited by the Internal Revenue Service because they donated to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. Coburn made the charge during an interview on MSNBC. “What I would tell you is our whistle-blower site is lit up,” Coburn said Thursday on MSNBC. “And I got a phone call yesterday, and one of the things I want to know is everybody that contributed to Romney, I want to know what their audit rate was because the indications out of Oklahoma are, right now, is if you happened to be a conservative and wealthy and gave to Romney, you had an audit where you’d never gotten an audit before.” Video here Share Tweet ...

FLASHBACK: Holder Used Dept. Of InJustice To Go After Romney Donor Sheldon Adelson

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:55:00 GMT

Source: maroonedinmarin.blogspot.com --- Friday, May 24, 2013
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SENATORS: IRS Said to Have Attacked Major Romney Donors

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:56:00 GMT

Source: directorblue.blogspot.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Sen. Tom Coburn isn't exactly a hothead. And, if the reports are accurate, he may have opened up a whole new can of whoop-ass on the IRS . Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said Thursday his constituents have suggested they were audited by the Internal Revenue Service because they donated to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign... "What I would tell you, is our whistleblower side is lit up," Coburn said Thursday on the news channel. "And I got a phone call yesterday and one of the things I want to know is, everybody that contributed to Romney, I want to know what their audit rate was because the indications out of Oklahoma are right now is if you happened to be a conservative and wealthy and gave to Romney, you had an audit where you'd never gotten an audit before ..." Coburn's comments come as Congress is investigating the IRS's targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status for additional scrutiny. The IRS has apologized for inappropriately flagging groups for additional scrutiny because they had certain words in their titles, such as Tea Party... ...Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) in a floor speech last week also said that a number of his constituents spoke of being audited during the 2012 presidential campaign for the first time... “These folks believe the audits were conducted for no other reason than the fact that their groups were conservative. And they believe the questions they’ve been asked have more to ...

The Romney-fication of Gabriel Gomez

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:40:00 GMT

Source: www.nationaljournal.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Gabriel Gomez often gets compared to Scott Brown , whose 2010 special election victory he hopes to duplicate. But Gomez's opponents are starting to link him to a different Bay State Republican: Mitt Romney . A story in Thursday's Boston Globe reported that six years worth of Gomez's tax returns revealed that he earned more than $10 million over that time period working in private equity -- the same field that made Romney his fortune but won him scorn during his presidential bid. Democratic National Committee press secretary Michael Czin wasted no time connecting the two Republicans, saying in an email to reporters on Thursday, "It's hard to tell if the Globe was talking about Mitt Romney's finances and business practices or Gabriel Gomez's." Czin isn't the first Democrat to link Gomez to Romney. On the night the former Navy SEAL won the GOP primary, Senate Majority PAC referred to Gomez as "Mitt Romney Jr." in a release. Despite serving one term as governor, Romney is unpopular in Massachusetts, a state he lost to President Obama by more than 20 points last year. ...

Obama Constituents link IRS audits to Mitt Romney donations

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:01:15 GMT

Source: www.chiefsplanet.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said Thursday his constituents have suggested they were audited by the Internal Revenue Service because they donated to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. Coburn made the charge during an interview on MSLSD Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...#ixzz2U8V0h0Ye Follow us: @thehill on Twitter | TheHill on Facebook ...

Mitt Romney, Mickey Mouse outvoted for Massapequa school board

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:42:24 GMT

Source: www.newsday.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
With no one on the ballot Tuesday for the one available school board seat in Massapequa, filling the three-year term came down to write-in votes, which were counted manually until about 1 a.m. Wednesday. ...

Hey, Einstein: MSNBC analyst asks, "Why Didn't Romney Make A Bigger Deal of the...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:10:27 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Hey, Einstein: MSNBC analyst asks, "Why Didn't Romney Make A Bigger Deal of the IRS Scandal Last Year?" I guess she forgot the the revelation of IRS abuse didn't come out until this month: http://bit.ly/10U6AGe LIKE if you think the lights are on but no one's home at MSNBC. ...

GOP lawmaker questions how Harry Reid ‘obtained’ false claims about Mitt Romney’s taxes

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:00:00 GMT

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
REP. PAUL GOSAR: “Are you aware that in July 2012 Senator Harry Reid claimed Mitt Romney hadn’t paid taxes for the last 10 years and claimed to have the information supporting that? Are you aware of that? I’m sure you are.” Read full article >> ...

Paul Ryan trying to defend Mitt Romney's constant flip-flopping during the 2012 campaign:

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:01:43 GMT

Source: politicsinstarkidgifs.tumblr.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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Tesla Motors, Called ‘Losers’ By Romney And Palin, Pays Off Government Loan 9 Years Early

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:49:17 GMT

Source: www.alan.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Will we hear “ Tesla ” as many times as we heard “Solyndra?” “I would like to thank the Department of Energy and the members of Congress and their staffs that worked hard to create the ATVM program, and particularly the American taxpayer from whom these funds originate,” billionaire inventor and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said. “I hope we did you proud.” The manufacturer of all-electric luxury cars found itself a political football because of the $465 million government loan it was awarded in 2010. Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin both labelled the car company “losers.” …Tesla posted its first profits in first quarter of 2013, roughly ten years after the company was founded. Thanks to a slew of good reviews of its new Model S, Tesla has become worth more than Fiat, the largest car company in Italy. “The Department first offered loans to Tesla and other auto manufacturers in June 2009, when car companies couldn’t get other financing and many people questioned whether the industry would survive,” U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said in a statement. “Today, Tesla employs more than 3,000 American workers and is living proof of the power of American innovation. This is another important contribution to what the Obama Administration has done to preserve and promote America’s auto industry.” ...

MSNBC’s Finney On IRS Scandal: ‘Why Didn't Romney Make More Of A Big Deal Of It?’

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:29:11 GMT

Source: newsbusters.org --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
You can take the flack out of the DNC but you can't take the DNC out of the flack, especially it's MSNBC regular and newly-minted weekend host Karen Finney, who today said that Mitt Romney should have made a bigger deal out of the IRS scandal on the campaign trail. The only problem, of course, is that no one knew about the IRS's malfeasance until well after the election. On Wednesday's Now with Alex Wagner, Ms. Finney claimed that, " Everybody knew about this investigation long before the election. So, if they were that freaked out, why didn't Romney make more of a big deal of it during the election? " Fortunately for viewers at home, former AP reporter Ron Fournier, now with National Journal, corrected Finney's ridiculous speculation. [See video after jump. MP3 audio here .] read more ...

MSNBC contributor wonders: Why didn’t Romney make a bigger deal about the IRS scandal last year?

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:21:55 GMT

Source: hotair.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
"Everybody knew about this investigation long before the election." Via Mediaite, there are only two possibilities here. One: Such is the denial and obfuscation at MSNBC over Scandalmania that Republicans are now being blamed for not building a time machine and exposing Obama’s scandals before anyone (except the IRS) knew for sure there was a scandal. I hope that’s what Finney’s suggesting here, just [...] Read this post » ...

Former Romney campaign intern charged with cyber-stalking in Detroit

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:19:00 GMT

Source: wkzo.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
DETROIT (WKZO) -- A former intern for the Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan presidential campaign was in federal court in Detroit Tuesday facing charges of cyber stalking. Twenty-one-year-old Adam Savader allegedly hacked into Internet accounts of at least 15 women and downloaded nude pictures of them. He is accused of then sending anonymous text messages to the women threatening to release the pictures if they didn't send him more photos of themselves. Savader attends State University of New York at Farmingdale, where he is a political science student with over 16-thousand followers on his Twitter account. His detention hearing is scheduled for this Friday. ...

KAREN FINNEY: If GOP So Concerned About IRS Scandal, Why Didn’t Mitt Romney Bring It Up In 2012?

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:18:49 GMT

Source: rolandmartinreports.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Source: Noah Rothman / Mediaite Former Democratic National Committee spokesperson and future MSNBC weekend host Karen Finney scolded a reporter who on Nowthis afternoon suggested that the White House may have overestimated how effective claiming that Republicans investigating a series of scandals were on a witch-hunt would be. In return, she asked if the GOP was genuinely concerned about the [...] ...

MSNBC Analyst: Hey, Why Didn't Romney Make A Bigger Deal of the IRS Scandal Last Year?

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:15:00 GMT

Source: townhall.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
There are moments in politics when an argument is advanced that is so surpassingly stupid or dishonest that it momentarily freezes your brain. ... ...

MSNBC Imbecile Karen Finney: Romney Should Have Used Obama’s IRS Scandal During the Election

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:21:30 GMT

Source: www.jammiewf.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
She’s smugly trying to worm out of this astonishing idiocy by claiming the GOP knew about it last year, citing this story . The only problem there is that story only mentions the fact the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was only made aware of an investigation. Nobody until 12 days ago had any knowledge of how massive the scandal was. Even the occupant of the White House feigned ignorance and claims he read about it in the newspaper. Behold the brilliance : Watch this video on YouTube . Romney was too incompetent to even capitalize on Obama’s Benghazi scandal. As if he’d have been able to articulate on this? ...

MSNBC Host: If GOP So Concerned About IRS Scandal, Why Didn’t Mitt Romney Bring It Up?

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:42:31 GMT

Source: videos.mediaite.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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Intern for Romney, Ryan campaign faces federal cyberstalking charges

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:32:50 GMT

Source: www.michigan.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Detroit — A 2012 Republican presidential campaign intern who worked for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan made a brief appearance in federal court Tuesday on charges he cyber-stalked 15 women and extorted them into sending nude photos. ...

Mitt Romney on Leno, Discusses Benghazi, IRS & AP

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:05:32 GMT

Source: thepatriotperspective.wordpress.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Pretty good interview posted over at Real Clear Politics . It’s interesting to watch, not just for the discussion, but to hear the crowd’s reaction. Filed under: Government , Jay Leno , Media Tagged: Benghazi , Mitt Romney ...