White House wants you to have faith in the government despite scandals
The Washington Times reports that, in his daily press briefing today, Jay Carney tried to beseech the media to take it easy on the government lest Americans lose their faith in the government;
In the wake of an inspector general’s report that verified “inappropriate” actions, White House press secretary Jay Carney said the president badly wants taxpayers to believe the Internal Revenue Service operates fairly and honestly.
“The president is concerned when you see the kind of activity documented in the inspector general’s report by IRS personnel … that can undermine people’s faith in the IRS in particular,” Mr. Carney said. “It is imperative that action be taken so that Americans understand and believe that the IRS enforces our tax laws in a neutral and fair way to all Americans.”
Yeah, no they don’t. Americans have too much faith in their government, which is why Obama has been elected twice. The government can’t fix the economy, it can only get out of the way. The government can’t get you a job, it can only get out of the way. It can’t pay your rent, it can’t pay your car off, it can’t buy your groceries, protect your family, shovel your driveway. Despite the fact that Obama claimed to care about veterans, he still didn’t bother to come and shovel the snow out of my TV dish this past winter.
On several occasions I’ve been asked why veterans are generally so conservative, I’ve always answered that veterans have seen the government at it’s best and at it’s worst and there’s not much difference between the two. When we needed our government most, we usually end up depending on the guy on our left and our right instead because those things the government was supposed to do for us didn’t arrive in a timely manner, if it arrived at all.
Look at the backlog of VA claims that the government keeps promising to clear “soon”, but “soon” never comes. Remember when the new GI Bill kicked in and folks were getting kicked out of school for not paying their tuition because the government couldn’t do what they were supposed to do. So, yeah, take the proper lesson away from these scandals, and considering how much we’ve been lied to in the last several years, stop believing what comes out of Jay carney’s mouth.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden
“It is imperative that action be taken so that Americans understand and believe that the IRS enforces our tax laws in a neutral and fair way to all Americans.”
And it’s important that you believe in fairies so that Tinkerbell doesn’t die.
Moonbats on the left. Moonbats on the right. The rest of us were raised to not trust the government about anything!
(Which is why it needs to be kept small enough to be watched closely.)
Yes, well, I watched Bodaprez’s minute and a half declaring that Lew (SecTreas) will be taking the IRS acting director’s resignation, the IG will follow through, and that there will be more information tomorrow, etc., etc., etc.
As one political analyst pointed out, presidents with more than one term in office back to FDR have had serious issues in their second (or later – FDR) terms.
This one doesn’t just have issues. He has a real problem and doesn’t like being reminded of it. Unfortunately for him, it isn’t going away.
Interesting theory: the Obama administration is defined by its key (politically-appointed) personnel. These people spent their youth and adulthood protesting everything American, who’s philosophical underpinnings come from the Vietnam-era anti-war movement.
So someone who spent decades villifying American servicemembers are going to slow-roll support to veterans to punish them for loving America, voting independently, and sneering the cowards who smoked dope and carried anti-America signs in Soviet-sponsored marches. Throw up Shinseki, feed him sh*t, as top-cover. And introduce highly sympathetic legislation from Prognazi congresscritters – knowing Harry Reid won’t let anything not overwhelmingly favorable to Dems pass.
Not so hard to believe, in light of the EPA and IRS actions. Wondering if Mao was a piker compared to these f*cks.
@2, and, don’t forget, unicorns.
As for “IRS personnel”, how high, exactly, does this go? Other than those who voted for “Hope and Change”, who believes that this was limited to Tyrone, who sits in cubicle 16, Doris, who sits in cubicle 24 and Chuck, who works in cubicle 4, at the IRS office in Cincinnati? Those low level staffers decided that the IRS should give rectal exams to anyone who had Tea Party or Patriot somewhere in their application?
Oops – couldn’t see them for the moonbats!
http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2bf96301/l/0Lusnews0Bnbcnews0N0C0Inews0C20A130C0A50C150C18279340A0Eobama0Ecalls0Eirs0Eflap0Einexcusable0Eannounces0Eresignation0Eof0Eacting0Eirs0Echief0Dlite/story01.htm
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/15/breaking-obama-acting-commissioner-of-irs-resigns/
We’ll see where this goes. And how fast people start running in every direction.
One of the job requirements for Obumbler’s Press Secretary must be that he have the ability to tell non-stop lies, covering for the POS-in-Chief.
The only way Obama can help me have even a little bit of faith in our government would be by resigning and taking Biden with him.
I’m with Nik…..lmao!
@8 – you left out ‘with a straight face’.
And I do believe in fairies. I do believe in fairies. I do believe in fairies.
I feel much better now.
The guy that gets fired was timed out in a few weeks anyway.
The guy that gets fired has only had the job since, what?, Nov 2012? and this crap started in, what?, 2010?
Me thinks this is Obama trying to throw a spin bone to his lovey dovey press.
Lets see what kind of sep bonus The guy gets.
PS:
Forgot to add:
You remember Susan “it was all just about a video” Rice? Starting to sound like she’s gonna get punished by taking over the National Security Adviser slot once the current guy quits.
During that 1.5 to 2.0 minutes, I detected notes of annoyance, and one word evoked a slightly raised tone of voice. Putting off a press conference or speech until tomorrow allows enough time to create another distraction, particularly since neither the AP phone spying nor Benghazi incident was mentioned.
So now we’ll see the media focused on the IRS dustup, while the business of spying on the AP’s reporters and covering up the intentional incompetence at Benghazi are shuffled off to the side. At least, that’s their plan.
Clever. But not all that clever. May not work quite the way they hope it will.
Yeah, they should stop watching all those spy movies where there are no consequences for being arrogant asses, unless you piss off Bond and he either blows up your facility or shoots you in the leg.
TRUST the GUBBMENT??!! TRUST the IRS, a branch of the gubbment!!?? Just so that I, as a taxpayer, will continue to allow Teh Gubbment (via the IRS) to continue to pick my pockets bare!!??
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
This is my maniacal face trying to keep it straight. This is me trying to keep from falling out of my chair with extreme laughter.
This is me trying to keep from going totally ballistic from all the self-serving lies, back stabbing and socialist big gubbment power grabbing.
G-D DAMNED C–K SUCKING TOO MANY DELETED EXPLETIVES ASSHOLES. . . . .
Yeah, I have faith in the federal govt…just like I have faith in folks from Mars coming down here and making friends with us.
The feds have a very strange way of hiring people and once they’re in the job, they can do whatever and not seem to have to be responsible for anything.
Many state govts are like that— dysfunctional
@16 – CI, 28,000 people have signed up to move to Mars. They may not want to come back here once they’ve moved.
Of course we can trust the government. It was only those two low-level rogue employees in Cincinatti who were (are?) bad, everyone else in the IRS is as pure as Mary Poppins.
IRS faces class action lawsuit over theft of 60 million medical records
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/irs-face-lawsuit-over-theft-60-million-patient-health-records
There’s some saying that this IRS thing was intentionally leaked in order to take the steam out of the Benghazi investigation.
If that’s true, then what are the degenerate scumbags so desperate to hide about that attack?
That after the attack, the scumbags went into coverup mode is already accepted. They can’t be trying to hide that.
The only faith I have in the government is that they are all a bunch of crooks and liars……
Heh.
Power does not always corrupt, but the corrupt do always seek power.
If the Benghazi e-mails and documents are released, how much of all that stuff has been altered?
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/15/18279922-white-house-releases-additional-documents-related-to-benghazi-response?lite>1=43001
Out, damned spot! out, I say!
One: two: why, then, ’tis time to do’t.
Hell is murky!
Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard?
What need we fear who knows it,
when none can call our power to account?
Yet who would have thought the old
man to have had so much blood in him?
For a Libtard belief the government is theirs and everyone else savior is their faith. Once that is shaken they aren’t Libtards any longer. This is Obama trying to keep his base. The Libtard church of government is at stake here.
You know it is funny, I know it’s off topic but I have to say this. You people usually say everything before I can log on and type, which is usually why I don’t. LOL.
Ok, now that I have typed something, theres nothing more to see here, move along……..
I read the e-mails released, they answer very little. The statement they were were working on blamed the attack on the video from the get go… but of course the e-mails only pick up where that began and contradict what was said in testiomny recently that it was known from DAY 1 that it was a terror attack. Who decided between the 11th and the 14th to blame it on a demonstration (that again), according to testimony it was known to not have been the case from the very start? Who made that call? Was it the White House, CIA, State? Who decided to call it a spontaneous demonstration prior to the e-mails we are seeing? Please do not even try and tell meno one in the White house was involved prior to the 14th in these discussions. What were the reactins in the White House on the 11th? When was Obama told? What did he do in response? Or did he hear about it like we all did on the news….
I routinely visit here because of like-minded views, and for the most part, we all get along. With that said, I made an observation (probably the same the rest of you did), when Jay Smarmy said, “It is imperative that action be taken so that Americans understand and believe that the IRS enforces our tax laws in a neutral and fair way to all Americans.”
Hasn’t Jay been watching the news? Does he REALLY believe “…the IRS enforces our tax laws in a neutral and fair way…?” He’s got to be fuggin’ joking, right?
And then there’s Eric “I Don’t Know” Holder. Isn’t he supposed to be the SENIOR law enforcement guru of the land? If he has rougue agents ANYWHERE within DOJ, shouldn’t he know about it, or have generated some kind of memo that would rope this sorta crap in when he took office? I guess the level of responsibility and accountability that the gov’t has is interpreted differently than I do. He needs to go – especially since he has no idea what’s going on in areas he’s supposed to be responsible for.
@26, I view jay Carney as nothing more than the US Version of Baghdad Bob.
I see him as a Richard Simmons version of Baghdad Bob!
You people have Jay all wrong. When he said “Americans,” he was referring to South and Central Americans, not us. And now I hear that IRS head Miller is fired. It went like this:
“Miller, Barack here. I understand that you are retiring.”
“Yes, Mr, President, I am.”
“Well, look, you know I’m in a pickle right now. It would be of help to me if you would let me fire you.”
“Um, will this affect my retirement benefits?”
“Hell no! Plus, I’ll make a phone call to whomever you want if you need another job in the private sector.”
“Okay, fire when ready, Mr. President.”
@26 and @27 I agree, well said. @15…I feel you brother.
veterans have seen the government at it’s best and at it’s worst and there’s not much difference between the two
The money quote right there. And given goverment “response” to civilian disasters over the past couple of decades (like Katrina, et al) you’d think the sheeple would have notice by now, but I guess they’re more fixated on watching American Idol.
@21: Give ANYONE enough power, and they’ll be corrupted. I’m sure we’ve all seen the power-tripping commander who tells their subordinates to do something illegal “because the Commander said so”.
But you are correct that the corrupt seek to gain more power.
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” –Reagan