Lost in the shuffle of the ignominious budget battle was a Congressional hearing into the ongoing I.R.S. scandal that deserves mention.
Sarah Hall Ingram was first called to appear many months ago and has been ducking the opportunity. She is the illustrious lass who headed the IRS division that targeted conservative groups for mistreatment and who has been promoted to head the IRS division that will enforce ObamaCare. Emails clearly show that in her former position she shared confidential taxpayer information on numerous occasions directly with the White House.
While she visited the I.R.S. some 165 times, former I.R.S. Commissioner Dough Shulman made 157 trips of his own to the White House, specifically during the time the Tea Parties and other groups were being targeted. While she was appearing before the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Gerry Connolly took to questioning her along these lines: Was she a witch or had she been consorting with the devil? If not, what about the many reports that she could fly?
The fact that various organizations and individuals who reported on or disagreed with Obama policies were targeted by the I.R.S. for extra audits, or that their applications for tax-exempt status were pigeonholed or grossly mishandled is a serious matter. We are dealing with severe abuse of the I.R.S. by the Administration here.
This is absolutely no laughing matter. For Connolly to try and make light of it is indicative of his total disregard for Americans.
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