Jeffrey Lord @ The American Spectator:
“My question is who is going to jail?”
— House Speaker John Boehner on the IRS ScandalThe President couldn’t even bring himself to breathe a word of the truth.
He could fire some hapless Acting Commissioner, but last night Mr. Obama never came close to discussing that which must never be discussed.
The IRS?
It’s about a union: the National Treasury Employees Union. The NTEU. A left-wing union representing 150,000 employees in 31 separate government agencies, including the IRS. A union that not only endorsed President Obama for election and re-election, but a union whose current president, Colleen Kelly, was a 14-year IRS agent and now is both union president and Obama administration appointee (of which more in a moment).
It’s about 94% of NTEU union contributions going to Democrats in the Senate and House in 2012 — candidates who campaigned as vociferous opponents of the Tea Party.
And the recently released report from the Treasury Inspector General? You will not find a single reference to the NTEU. Whose members are both player and referee in the exploding controversy over the IRS targeting of conservative groups.
Which raises the obvious question: how many NTEU members were involved in the writing of the Inspector General’s report?
Even more to the point, what contact — what coordination — has the Obama White House had with their allies in the NTEU leadership as both the White House and the NTEU race to get on top of a scandal that is rapidly engulfing both?
Did I mention that the NTEU has no comment on all of this? And that when President Obama went in front of cameras to make his statement on the IRS scandal — he never once mentioned his very powerful union buddies that have the run of the IRS? Right down to the control of who gets a Blackberry? Literally.
Let’s first see how the IRS/NTEU game with the Tea Party and conservatives is played, shall we?
In the 2012 election cycle, the IRS union gave its money this way:
For the U.S. Senate:
Total to Democrats: $156,750
Total to Republicans: $1,000For the U.S. House:
Total to Democrats: $391,062
Total to Republicans: $23,000And the candidates on the receiving end of those IRS employee dollars? Yes indeed. They were candidates who were running flat out against the Tea Party, depicting Tea Party-supported candidates as dangerous, extremists, and crazies. Exhibiting exactly the anti-Tea Party antipathy on the campaign trail that has been revealed to be permeating the IRS.
No wonder. These Senate and House races were fueled in part by money donated by IRS employees.
Let’s take a look at specific races where the IRS employee money was involved.
Let’s look at the logical progression, assuming the TEA party candidates and groups could actually take enough seats in Congress to make a meaningful impact on the Federal budget.
-If the Taxed Enough Already meme played out resulting in substantial power for the group, taxes would lower, the federal budget would decrease(or at least not increase at anywhere near the rate that it has since Obama was first sworn in), and I’d speculate that many federal employees wouldn’t be needed, including at the IRS and including those slated for duty towards Obamacare compliance.
-All of which would lead to fewer working employees for the union, some to many of which would lapse in their union dues, leading to smaller annual rake-ins for the NTEU.
-Less annual “revenue” for the NTEU would lead to less power to influence politicians, and subsequently, legislation that continues the incestuous relationship between public employee unions and the politicians that they support.
-The “gravy train”, while not ending for the NTEU, would be smaller, resulting in tougher conditions for the union’s managers in which to continue their lavish pay and lifestyles.
Does that about sum it up?
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