Sunday, May 19, 2013

Rand Paul tells CNN that he "knows" there is a secret IRS document telling them to target Teabaggers. And as we know he is SUCH a reliable source for accurate informaton.

Courtesy of Mediaite:

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) spoke with CNN’s Candy Crowley on Sunday, weighing in on the scandal involving the IRS targeting conservative groups. Addressing the agency’s insistence that the problem was not politically motivated, Paul suggested there’s likely a memo or “written policy” about officials singling out those opposing President Obama. 

Crowley asked Paul whether he could imagine the mistake being simply misguided and stupid without any political motives. 

“Well, I think we’re going to have to see the memorandum,” the senator replied. “Apparently there is a policy, and I think that we’re going to find there’s a written policy that says that ‘We were targeting people who were opposed to the president.’” 

Once that comes to light, Paul asserted we’d have to find out who wrote and approved it. That remark prompted Crowley to question whether the IRS did actually have a written policy, asking him to clarify his comments. 

“Well, we keep hearing the reports and we have several specifically worded items saying who was being targeted,” Paul elaborated. “In fact, one of the bullet points says those who are critical of the president. So I don’t know if that comes from a policy, but that’s what’s being reported in the press and reported orally. I haven’t seen a policy statement, but I think we need to see that.” 

"So I don’t know if that comes from a policy, but that’s what’s being reported in the press and reported orally."

Interestingly enough the only references to be found on Google to a secret IRS memo targeting the Teabaggers lead back to this statement by Rand Paul.

Which kind of makes me think that the the only reporting done "orally" for Paul are those reported by the voices in his head.

Don't forget, this lunatic wants to run for President someday. 

28 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:39 PM

    The guy is an ass. Hasn't he been a proven liar before? Think so!! Can you see him put up against Hillary Clinton in 2016? What a riot! She'll clean his clock!

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  2. "Don't forget, this lunatic wants to run for President someday."

    Oh, no, not someday. This lunatic is running for President now.

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  3. Anonymous2:51 PM

    "Reported orally?" Gee, Rand, you sound JUST like $arah Palin!

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  4. Anonymous2:59 PM

    Have you seen the Jonathan Karl apology?

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/abc-news-jon-karl-addresses-benghazi-report-regret-email-inaccuracy-but-story-entirely-stands/

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  5. Anonymous3:10 PM

    Oh dear. If they weren't so unpatriotic and threatening the President with
    death, I'd almost feel sorry for the GOP. Everything they have tried has been a dismal failure. The people were taken in by Bush's schtick, and the grand promises of JOBS JOBS JOBS from the GOP in 2010. Frankly, we are tired of their lies, their accusations, their profiling people, and their constant unending faux outrage over every blessed thing Obama does (or doesn't do.) The GOP is going down. It's gonna be a landslide next fall, and none too soon to save our democracy from the lunatics.

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    1. Anonymous3:32 PM

      Good Lord I hope so. All because of a BLACK man in a "White" House. Forget We The People.

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    2. Anonymous4:46 PM

      I hope you're right but I fear that so many districts have been gerrymandered that a landslide is all but impossible. There are still far too many Faux News and Rush followers (otherwise known as low-information voters) who will blindly vote for whomever has the 'R' next to their name.

      Our only hope is to overwhelm them with numbers and hope that the disenfranchisement and election fraud that the GOP has been trying so hard to accomplish doesn't have enough of an impact to sway the results.

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  6. Anonymous3:21 PM

    I think Rand is right about the memo.
    When it is found, impeachment will follow.

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    1. Anonymous4:10 PM

      The only email that will surface is one that was written by Rand. He is an idiot.

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    2. Anonymous5:18 PM

      What, no Muslim marxist socialist reply today, 3:21 PM?

      Good luck with your "wiah."

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    3. Anonymous6:56 PM

      You don't think. That's obvious.

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    4. What a silly thing to say. You're not very smart, are you?

      Every day, you show your jealousy of the fact that a black man is brilliant, talented, educated, and accomplished, all things you will never be.

      I see you learned what the little dot on the keyboard is for. Good boy! Have a cookie!

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  7. Paul is a nutcase. Silencing Tea Party/Patriot type groups would only have helped Romney.

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  8. Anonymous3:39 PM

    Very telling how the ones screaming about having taxes investigated are those with the most to hide.

    I see it came out that Romney was found to be lying about his taxes, just as Harry Reid said was the case.

    Not exactly a huge fanfare now that this truth has been revealed. I think secretly even the most ardent rightwing jihadist KNEW Romney was dirty--but just pretended it didn't matter. How utterly sad.

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  9. Anonymous3:41 PM

    Well, he gets all his inside info from World Net Daily, just like Palin does. They know everything! Straight from God too, they'll tell you that for sure!

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  10. Anonymous4:11 PM

    Something "orally" means something was spoken. What a fancy way to gussy up plain old gossip.
    Anyone at the Heritage Foundation could have spoken to someone at the Cato Foundation, who heard something from David Koch's amanuensis, who whispered it into the ear of Tucker Carlson, who ran straight up to the Hill to whisper it into the ear of the junior Senator from Kentucky.

    Which "press" has been reporting this? The Drudge Report?

    Mr. Rand Paul might as well be Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
    "I have here in my hands a list of some 300 Communists in the State Department."

    Okay, Senator McCarthy, let's see your list.
    Okay, Senator Paul, tell us exactly who's been saying these things and where they've been reported.
    Otherwise, you're just trying to make trouble with no substantiation.
    Spend your time reforming the wording of the 501 (C) 4 examption.

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  11. Yet another Republican who is inspired by the anti-intellectualism espoused by the tea party.

    Rand Paul hears "stuff" from his constituents, reads "stuff" on a blog site, and runs with it without first investigating the veracity of the information. Who needs verifiable evidence, unbiased comprehensive data, fact-checking, and sound reasoning when you can rely upon highly speculative supposition and inflammatory innuendo instead?

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    1. hedgewytch8:58 AM

      Or magickal thinking!

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  12. Anonymous6:57 PM

    This is the same jackass who lectured students at a traditional Black college about African American history.

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  13. Anonymous7:44 PM

    President Barack Obama delivered the commencement address at Morehouse College on Sunday, May 19th, 2013 in Atlanta

    https://twitter.com/petesouza/status/336242056555024384/photo/1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jxpNx6XNbc&feature=

    Now THAT is a commencement speech! I dare ya to top that, Baldy.

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    1. Anita Winecooler8:56 PM

      I saw that on tv, what great advice he gave those graduates. And his shared experience drove the point home!

      LOL Good luck with topping that one, Baldy. "It took me six years to do something that takes four....Todd got the gun, I got the rack...want some big gulp and chewing tobacco?"

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  14. Anonymous7:57 PM

    The Day in Images: President Obama at Morehouse

    http://theobamadiary.com/2013/05/19/the-day-in-images-president-obama-at-morehouse/#more-120108

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  15. Anonymous8:01 PM

    I'm so inspired by President Obama's speech today and all the history and backstory that goes with it, but this caught my eye...

    “What I ask of you today is the same thing I ask of every graduating class I address,” Obama told 500 graduates and an estimated 10,000 onlookers, most of them in ponchos, on the school’s stormy, rain-soaked campus. “Use that power for something larger than yourself.”

    While the message may have been unremarkable, the occasion was historic: Obama became the first sitting president to address Morehouse, the alma mater of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose spirit was evoked throughout the speech.

    “Many of you know what it’s like to be an outsider, to be marginalized, to feel the sting of discrimination,” Obama said. “That’s an experience that so many other Americans share. Hispanic Americans know that feeling when someone asks where they come from or tells them to go back. Gay and lesbian Americans feel it when a stranger passes judgment on their parenting skills or the love they share. Muslim Americans feel it when they’re stared at with suspicion because of their faith. Any woman who knows the injustice of earning less pay for doing the same work—she sure feels it.”

    http://theobamadiary.com/2013/05/19/the-day-in-images-president-obama-at-morehouse/#more-120108

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  16. Anonymous8:27 PM

    The Lie Matters: What Did Sen Coburn Know about the Edited Benghazi Email and How Did He Know

    Joy Reid dropped a little Benghazi lying leaker bomb yesterday on the Reid Report blog. A trusted source of hers told her to look at the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. One person who stood out to her was Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), who was on Morning Joe on May 9th, the day before the now debunked Benghazi email bombshell, claiming that there were “glaring omissions” in what was given to the intelligence committee, but that he couldn’t talk about it yet.

    Senator Coburn appears to be referencing the email that was edited and shopped by “Republicans on Capitol Hill” to media outlets, and picked up by the gullible rube Jonathan Karl at ABC, as well as repeated by The Weekly Standard and a CBS reporter. This suggests that he saw the edited version of the email that was leaked by Republicans.

    The Reid Report detailed on Saturday:


    A very trusted source of mine gave me a cryptic piece of advice yesterday, which was to take a look at the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. I didn’t know quite what to make of it at the time, but tonight it occurred to me: could someone on that committee also have been on the Select Committee on Intelligence, which is the one that got the email briefing in February?

    Here’s the Republican membership of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (the Committee is chaired by Democrat Thom Carper of Delaware):
    • Tom Coburn, (OK) Ranking Member
    • John McCain (AZ)
    • Ron Johnson (WI)
    • Rob Portman (OH)
    • Rand Paul (KY)
    • Mike Enzi (WY)
    • Kelly Ayotte (NH)
    Pretty juicy list! Note how stacked the minority side of the committee is with presidential aspirants, potential aspirants, a former aspirant, and some of the most hardcore tea party Senators, including some, like Rand Paul, John McCain and Kelly Ayotte, who have gone after, first Susan Rice, and then Hillary Clinton guns blazing on Benghazi. But only one of those Senators ALSO sits on the Select Committee on Intelligence — which is the one that my administration source says got the February briefing”

    And that person is Tom Coburn.

    Joy Reid points out that “On May 9th — literally the day before Jonathan Karl’s “bombshell” report went live, Coburn appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe” and said that the State Department was going to be in trouble because of “glaring omissions” that he could not discuss yet, but he assured us all would come out eventually.

    Episode cued up per Joy Reid to the relevant part: VIDEO

    ...The most interesting thing about this suspicion is that if the leak came from the Senate and not the House, it can be investigated by Democrats who are the hamstrung, beleaguered majority in the Senate. I would have bet on the House being the leak for this reason, but perhaps I’ve underestimated Republican hubris.

    Yesterday, Democratic Rep Adam Schiff (D-CA) called for an investigation into how the doctored email ended up in the media’s hands. There’s no way that Darrell Issa would allow an investigation of Republicans in the House. He’s way too invested in abusing his power for partisan gain, especially after the big money told Republicans to stop any legislating and just focus on drumming up Obama scandals.

    Karl and ABC brushed this under the rug today, claiming that his story still stood. It most certainly does not. But clearly, they aren’t going to be outing their source and CBS did enough by outing that it was offered to them by Republicans on Capitol Hill. Americans deserve to know who lied to Congress, the public, and the press and why. Remember, “it’s the lie that matters”… and the cover up.

    http://www.politicususa.com/day-benghazi-email-sen-coburn-referenced-glaring-omission-talk.html

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    1. Anita Winecooler8:51 PM

      Joy makes perfect sense. Spill, Coburn, Spill!

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  17. Anonymous8:41 PM

    Mitch McConnell Crashes and Burns When Pressed for Evidence of Obama Scandal

    ...
    GREGORY: But Senator, that– that was a leap…

    SEN. MCCONNELL: …who think that…

    GREGORY: …that’s a leap that can you make as argument, but you don’t have fact to back it up. You can create and I just asked…

    SEN. MCCONNELL: Well, the investigation…

    GREGORY: …I asked Dan Pfeiffer about it. You can you talk about a culture. Do you have any evidence that the President of the United States directed what you call a culture of intimidation at the IRS to target political opponents?

    SEN. MCCONNELL: I– I don’t think we know what the facts are. All I can tell you is…

    GREGORY: But that hasn’t stopped you from– from accusing.

    SEN. MCCONNELL: Well, what we’re talking about here is an– an attitude that the government knows best, the nanny state is here to tell us all what to do and if we start criticizing, you get targeted.



    Basically, Sen. McConnell admitted that Republicans don’t have any evidence to back up their IRS allegations. They are investigating an Obama connection to the IRS scandal because they are falsely attributing some beliefs to him that he does not hold.

    McConnell’s culture of intimidation talking point was supposed to act as justification for all of the congressional investigations.

    Minority Leader McConnell never thought that David Gregory would ask him for evidence to back up his accusations.

    http://www.politicususa.com/mitch-mcconnell-crashes-burns-pressed-evidence-obama-scandals.html

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  18. Anita Winecooler8:46 PM

    If either Warren or Clinton decide to run, this twerp is toast.

    Karl's non apology apology is a feeble attempt at covering his own butt. If any head should roll, it's his, and ABC should be fined by the FCC for aiding and abetting an lie. It's clear by the emails released that the "source" is a GOP plant with an agenda.

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  19. Anonymous8:51 PM

    White House Fights Back: We’ve Seen the GOP Playbook of False Allegations Before

    Top White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer fought back against the week of Republican lies on Meet the Press, telling David Gregory, “We’ve seen this playbook from the Republicans before. What they want to do when they are lacking a positive agenda is they want to drag Washington into a swamp of partisan fishing expeditions, trumped up hearings, and false allegations. We’re not going to let that happen.”

    He then proceeded to drop a few fact bombs on the alleged “scandals”.

    Watch here:


    http://www.politicususa.com/top-obama-aide-playbook-false-allegations-gop.html

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