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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (160457)	10/9/2013 8:18:30 PM
From: TideGlider	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo Sedohr Nod Respond to of 224864

worthless babble.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (160457)	10/9/2013 9:01:12 PM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224864

Boehner: Obama wants ‘unconditional surrender’ from Republicans Alexis Levinson Political Reporter 10/08/2013 dailycaller.com WASHINGTON — Speaker of the House John Boehner said Tuesday afternoon that President Barack Obama was requesting “unconditional surrender” from Republicans in exchange for any kind of negotiations. Tuesday morning, Boehner and Obama had a phone call, during which, according to a read out from the Speaker’s office: “The president called the speaker again today to reiterate that he won’t negotiate on a government funding bill or debt limit increase.” Later on Tuesday, Obama had a press conference in which he reiterated that message: there would be no negotiations until Republicans agreed to pass the spending bill passed by the Senate and the government was reopened. “What the president said today was, if there’s unconditional surrender by Republicans, he’ll sit down and talk to us,” Boehner said at a press conference later in the day. That, he said, was not an option. “The only way this is going to happen is to in fact have a conversation. It’s time to have that conversation … the conversation ought to start today,” he said. “The long and short of it is, there’s going to be a negotiation here,” Boehner said.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (160457)	10/9/2013 9:37:16 PM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo TideGlider Respond to of 224864

Kenny, bet you are very proud of this criminal activity knowing that no one will do anything about it...after all he is the first black president. White House, IRS exchanged confidential taxpayer info Patrick Howley Reporter 10/09/2013 dailycaller.com Top Internal Revenue Service Obamacare official Sarah Hall Ingram discussed confidential taxpayer information with senior Obama White House officials, according to 2012 emails obtained by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and provided to The Daily Caller. Lois Lerner, then head of the IRS Tax Exempt Organizations division, also received an email alongside White House officials that contained confidential information. Ingram attempted to counsel the White House on a lawsuit from religious organizations opposing Obamacare’s contraception mandate. Email exchanges involving Ingram and White House officials — including White House health policy advisor Ellen Montz and deputy assistant to the president for health policy Jeanne Lambrew — contained confidential taxpayer information, according to Oversight. The emails provided to Oversight investigators by the IRS had numerous redactions with the signifier “6103.” Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code forbids a federal employee from “disclos[ing] any return or return information obtained by him in any manner in connection with his service as such an officer or an employee.” Federal employees who illegally disclose confidential taxpayer information could face five years in prison. “Thanks, David. Thanks for the information on [6103],” White House official Lambrew wrote to IRS official David Fish in a July 20, 2012 exchange. “I am still hoping to understand whether the 50 percent rule is moot if the organization does not offer goods and services for sale to the general public. Do we assume that organizations like [6103] do offer goods and services for sale?” Another email from Montz to Ingram and others refers to the “[6103] memo” and the “[6103] letter” while discussing organizations that are not required to file 990's. Ingram appeared before Rep. Darrell Issa’s House Oversight Committee Wednesday and claimed she could not recall a document that contained confidential taxpayer information. “Well one of the areas of interest is there’s a significant redaction that quotes the statute 6103. Do you know who is underneath that blackout?” Issa asked Ingram. “I don’t recall the document so I can’t help you with what’s underneath that redaction,” Ingram said. “Her response has not put concerns to rest,” Oversight staffer Frederick Hill said. ”This caught people’s eye.” Issa has requested unredacted copies of the emails, citing a prohibition from misusing Section 6103 “for the purpose of concealing information from a congressional inquiry.” Ingram headed the scandal-ridden IRS office responsible for overseeing tax-exempt nonprofit groups before leaving to head the agency’s office in charge of Obamacare implementation. An IRS voice mail message declined to comment on any media inquiries during the government shutdown, citing law.