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patrice

(47,992 posts)
Thu May 16, 2013, 08:22 PM May 2013

he, he, here's an old enemy of what calls itself "the Left" - their buddy Gibbs now . . .

Former WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Blasts Obama’s ‘Passive’ Response To IRS Controversy

http://newsone.com/2454415/robert-gibbs-irs-barack-obama/

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and on yet another sub-topic:

Robert Reich:

Keep your eye on the big scandal. Although the IRS was wrong to target conservative groups for review based on their names, the bigger wrong was its failure to investigate the major groups -- such as Karl Rove's Grossroads GPS and Priorities USA -- that falsely claimed to be "social welfare organizations" under 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code in order to hide the names of their donors. And the real scandal of the 2012 election (which will be even worse next year, because they got away with it) is how many corporations and wealthy individuals used this loophole to disguise their identities while pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into campaigns. The Supreme Court in "Citizens United" at least assumed full disclosure, but the "social welfare organization" loophole in the tax laws has allowed corporations to keep political spending secret even from their own shareholders.

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