Thank you for not supporting Obama.
I can’t really add anything to this, so I’ll just quote it for emphasis. This is just yet another tempest in a Tea cup. Scrutinizing anti-tax groups a bit more closely is just being smart.
I thought it was O’Bama?
Does anyone else ‘hear’ the thread title in James Brown’s voice? The OP is an illiterate numbskull, but if “Jump on it, Dopers!” becomes a thing, maybe this will have been worth it.
So that is what they’re actually hiding; a birth-certificate from Dummyfries, county Mayo, Eire.
I’m hearing it in the voice of Wonder Mike.
[QUOTE=The Sugar Hill Gang]
Iran-Contra, jump on it, jump on it, jump on it
Vince Foster, jump on it, jump on it, jump on it
IRS-gate, jump on it, jump on it, jump on it
Apache, jump on it, jump on it
[/QUOTE]
“Jump on it, Dopers” is far too clear and concise to have been sung by James Brown.
It will be a good day when you crawl back under the slimy rock from which you emerged. For now, I plan to boycott any future threads of yours. Bye-bye, dipshit.
Ya, well… well… they THOUGHT about it, so we should make a stink about it!
The IRS should not ever consider denying tax exempt status to organizations whose avowed purpose is to not ever pay any taxes.
Kind of a weak pitting, isn’t it?
It’s just “Topic meant to be inflammatory” with a side of “please do all the legwork for me” by a mentally challenged individual.
I’d say it was more suited to GD, except there’s no debate here. It’s just “come on, dopers, fetch the ball…er topic, that’s a good doper”.
What, you don’t like trolls that write in obnoxious “Snuffy Smith on Twitter” dialect?
This must be like the fifteenth “Obama’s Watergate” I’ve heard of from the right so far. Clearly Obama is the greatest politician in American history if he’s capable of being so blatantly evil so often and yet come off scot-free over and over again.
He also wrote a song for George W. Bush in 2006 called “Let’s Impeach The President”. Pretty astute guy, that Neil Young.
I’m fine with the IRS targeting the Tea Party. The TP has been shown to be a bunch of nutjobs and radical fringe extremists. They need to be looked at closer
Not to mention that I bet everyone who has a problem with the IRS on this is fine with police tracking people who look Islamic.
I get that they shouldn’t have done it, no question. But I think I can see a rationale for it: we’re in a period of loosening rules on political advocacy, and the line between tax-exempt advocacy groups and non-tax-exempt political advocacy groups seems to be blurring. The Tea Party gave themselves a name that sure sounds like a political advocacy group–“party” in politics usually means political party, and political parties are not tax exempt to the best of my knowledge. So increased scrutiny on groups with Tea Party in their names makes sense to me.
Groups with “Patriot” in their name? I’d want to know how they thought that was a good idea.
Making a stink about it is the right thing to do. This was pretty stupid and most likely against the law. But it’s more stupid than evil.
Waaaaaaaaay too late for that.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=16285321
Since when has President Obama been in favor of racial/religious profiling?
eta: I’d also like to mention that I expect this milkshake to bring a lot of boys to the yard.
Remember Dick Armey and the Tea Party Express? Wasn’t it amazing how this grassroots organization just sprang up out of nowhere, yet when they held rallies, all the professional gear, all the microphones and loudspeakers and crew, and stage managers, just sprang up out of thin air? Kind of like Occupy but with a buttload of money and professional cynics. Who’s kidding who, here?
I may be the only one who remembers how the Tea Party Express announced that the Tea Party was solidly behind Verizon/Comcast during their difficulties. Who the fuck loves the cable company? Tell me, who?
Its all about the bogus rules for political organizations which are not political organizations, no, really, we’re not. So we don’t have to tell anybody where the money comes from, because hey! It all comes from individual patriotic Americans who are fed up with the way the gummint…
Bullshit on a cracker. If Karl Roves Crossroads super pac isn’t a political organization, and therefore is exempt from revealing sources of income, then I am the Queen of Romania.