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Marco Rubio Humiliates Himself By Demanding That the Non-Existent IRS Commissioner Resign
In a letter to Treasury Sec. Jack Lew, Sen. Rubio (R-FL) wrote, Furthermore, it is clear the IRS cannot operate with even a shred of the American peoples confidence under the current leadership. Therefore, I strongly urge that you and President Obama demand the IRS Commissioners resignation, effectively (sic) immediately. No government agency that has behaved in such a manner can possibly instill any faith and respect from the American public.
First of all, Rubios letter has a big typo in it. I think he meant effective immediately, not effectively immediately. Things get even worse for Marco, when you realize that he just asked for the resignation of someone who doesnt really exist. Thats right, Rubio is so busy plotting his 2016 presidential campaign that he never bothered to check to see if there actually was an IRS commissioner.
It turns out that the previous IRS commissioner was appointed by Bush, and he resigned last November.
Wait a minute, the IRS scandal that the Republican Party is blaming Obama for happened while a Bush appointee was in charge. This really does keep getting worse for Rubio.
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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/marco-rubio-humiliates-demanding-non-existent-irs-commissioner-resign.html
ellie
(6,929 posts)What a blockhead.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/mcconnell-irs-level-targeting-occurring-across-board
Cha
(297,206 posts)thanks DV
I got this from one of the comments on Jason Easley's article..
Sandy
Interesting. Some will remember this:
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/07/local/me-allsaints7
The IRS under the Bush administration sent the IRS after All Saints church in Pasadena just before the 2004 election, threatening its nonprofit status because of a comment by a visiting speaker.
At the same time, the Bushies were hiring all the graduates they could from Pat Robertsons law school (Regents law school) and packing the federal justice department and civil service with them, helped by the federal civil service human resource manager who was also hired from Regents.
They bragged about it on line for quite awhile, then the page disappeared.
But the infromation is still out there.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2007/04/whos_the_boss.html
Ah yes, I do remember it now..
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)mean for gawds sake, a little research, even a google would have avoided this. He's such a putz...
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Simply amazing.
DFW
(54,378 posts)"McConnell and Rubio denounce Van Pelt parents for allowing Great Pumpkin worship by their children"
wercal
(1,370 posts)The 'acting' commissioner.
maindawg
(1,151 posts)I am going to go out on a limb and assume that the reason there is not Commissioner is because the rethugs have blocked all presidential appointments ?
blackspade
(10,056 posts)lrellok
(41 posts)OK, Lets think a second here. You have how many tea party groups running all over our country publicly advocating tax evasion, and when the IRS FINALLY starts investigating them to see if they are actually committing tax evasion, they begin screaming that they are being discriminated against.
Does this standard apply to left wing groups as well? Are we allowed to advocate potentially illegal conduct and are immune from investigation on the grounds of free speech?
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)There was a reason for what the IRS did, and it appears more and more that it was, in fact, a very good reason.
BTW: Welcome to DU!
DesertDiamond
(1,616 posts)that sentence does not work. You do not instill from. You instill into. He may have meant to say "earn" any faith and respect from.
Mr. X
(72 posts)Republicans are trying to blame the IRS investigations on Democrats...
This is pretty hard to do when the person in charge of the IRS during the time that the investigations occurred was appointed by a Republican.
Additionally, Rubio is demanding that the IRS Commissioner resign over these allegations. The commissioner in charge during this time has already resigned though, back in November of 2012.
But one thing that Rubio got right was this - "No government agency that has behaved in such a manner can possibly instill any faith and respect from the American public"
And I agree - they can't. But we can't forget who it was, what party it was, that chose who would lead the IRS. We can't allow these people to escape the blame for a situation that they helped to create.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)The whole planet should just refuse to recognize their authority in any position beyond circus clowns.