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To: tejek who wrote (795746)	7/20/2014 12:10:21 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By d[-_-]b Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580041

>> ..if I were a gov't employee and I was threatened with 11 years imprisonment, I would plead the 5th too. Sure, as would I. But I would only be threatened with imprisonment if I had broken the law. It is pretty evident that there was a conspiracy to go after the conservative organizations and that is something the IRS simply cannot be permitted to do. The Republicans didn't permit it when Nixon did it and they sure as hell shouldn't when Obama is doing it. >> No matter what reasonable explanation is given, these issues which might provide Rs with a way to hang Obama never die. Apparently, you don't understand what has happened. There has been no explanation, reasonable or otherwise. There has been an unapologetic IRS administrator, an essential witness taking the 5th, a lot of unexplained, unusual IRS traffic at the White House, inexplicably missing emails that were required, under the law, to be kept, found emails that are incriminating, plus the circumstantial statistical evidence that crimes were committed. >> It didn't bother me because Bush/Cheney was screwing up big time. So, in your eyes Bush and Cheney are bad so these investigations are good. Never even OCCURS to you that most people see what Obama has done as bad. Never crosses your mind that you are in a minority who stills believes your votes were sensible. Wake up and smell the coffee. The Obama administration is a failure and it isn't because of Darrell Issa. It is because the man is grossly incompetent. That he is black has nothing to do with it. I warned you he was incompetent before you voted for him. All you had to do was open your eyes.

To: tejek who wrote (795746)	7/20/2014 10:18:56 AM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1580041

"Why the hell do you think Congress has an approval rating of 8%?" We have lost confidence in our representatives. The relationship of congressional representatives and the people they are supposed to represent is based on trust. We lend them our trust via votes, they sell us out for money from lobbyists, which allows the conduct of those in power to go unchecked, example IRS. There is a gigantic gap between what should be and what is. Recognition of the truth is consequential (8%).