5/13/13, "The 2010 Election and Citizens United Shook Democrats to the Core," Rush Limbaugh transcript
This IRS targeting of Tea Party groups predated the midterms, but I think the midterms really intensified it....
And you remember how a bunch of conservative groups were mocked as paranoid by the media and the administration for claiming this was going on at the time? I had all kinds of things flowing back to me from my memory when this story broke.
A Republican congressmen even wrote to the head of the IRS tax exempt organization division, Lois Lerner, to raise questions about this. But no one in the media ever bothered to investigate any of it. Think about how this kind of news and Benghazi could have changed the elections just last November. Just like the full disclosure of Benghazi might have changed the elections. But in both cases the one-party media didn't want to investigate anything that might hurt Obama's reelection. ...
CALLER: You know, I think this is a very important issue. This isn't the first time that the Obama administration has abused the IRS' powers. In 2010, at the same time they were going after the Tea Party, Austan Goolsbee -- the chairman of the president's council of economic advisers -- was using the IRS to go after the Koch brothers, probably somebody that they hated as much as the Tea Party. There was a press briefing where Goolsbee told the press how much money the Koch brothers have been paying in taxes. You know, at first they said that the information was "publicly available," and when that turned out not to be the case, the administration said, "Well, you know, he simply accidentally guessed the exact amount that they pay."
RUSH: You know, that's exactly right. I'd forgotten that, but you're exactly right. Austan Goolsbee did tell the press how little the Koch brothers were paying in taxes -- in his perspective, how little -- and there was no way he coulda known that.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: Unless somebody at the IRS had shared the data with him....
RUSH: Do you remember when the Citizens United case was handed down by the Supreme Court...It upset them so much that Obama called out the Supreme Court while justices were sitting in the front row at one of his State of the Union addresses. He challenged them on that ruling. He told them they were wrong. Remember Samuel Alito sitting there shaking his head, "No, no, no," because Obama was totally mischaracterizing the decision?...That may have been the thing at the time that angered them and frightened them the most, and so that decision could also have a heck of a lot to do with the IRS....
Remember when Harry Reid said, "Mitt Romney hasn't paid taxes."
"How do you know?"
"Well, good friends have told me."
"Who?"
"I'm not gonna tell you who's told me." But it is clear, Austan Goolsbee demonstrates, you could pick up the phone, call the IRS, and they'd tell you what you wanted to know. Somebody at the IRS, it had to be the IRS, told Goolsbee about the Kochs' tax returns. How did Harry Reid find out about Mitt Romney's taxes? And we know that all of these Romney donors were targeted for audits by the IRS. We know that what's-her-face, Janet Napolitano, in a memo to the Department of Homeland Security, warned law enforcement officials to be on the lookout for right-wing extremist grouped who were concerned about illegal immigration, abortion, increasing federal power and restrictions on firearms.
Folks, the fact of the matter is, this administration has targeted right-wing groups from practically every bureaucracy in the government....Clinton did it. Clinton had targeted audits of conservative groups. It isn't anything new. But for some reason the media has joined the chorus of criticism on this one. And I'm convinced it's because they have to save the IRS, and so it's a little bit of damage control, among other things. ...
Under Clinton the IRS went after the NRA, the Heritage Foundation, the National Review, the American Spectator, Freedom Alliance, American Policy Center, Citizens for Honest Government, the Progress and Freedom Foundation, Concerned Women for America, and on and on and on. But just remember, folks, what Elijah Cummings said during the whistleblower hearings on Benghazi. There is death in life, and that's all you need to know about Benghazi."...
5/13/13, "The IRS Merely Followed Through on Policies the Constitution Constrains Obama from Implementing Himself," Rush Limbaugh transcript
"In fact, the New York Times knew about what the IRS was doing back in March of 2012, over a year ago. The New York Times knew about this, and guess what? They were applauding it. There's an editorial in the New York Times, "The IRS Does Its Job." March 7th, 2012. From the editorial: "Taxpayers should be encouraged by complaints from Tea Party chapters applying for nonprofit tax status at being asked by the Internal Revenue Service to prove they are 'social welfare' organizations and not the political activists they so obviously are.
"Such IRS inquiries are long overdue, should be applied across the board to the growing number of organizations allied with major political parties that are also ludicrously posing as social welfare groups." Now, you note the New York Times never writes things like that about such groups as Media Matters.... There's no way Media Matters qualifies as a nonpartisan, tax-exempt group. But the New York Times knew about this in March of 2012.
They knew about it because Tea Party people were complaining about it, and the New York Times was encouraging the IRS in this..... Just four or five days ago, the New York Times had an editorial mocking the Republican efforts on Benghazi. Just four or five days ago. Now that's blown wide open. So the idea that this Tea Party targeting by the IRS is something somebody just discovered and only recently learned about is silly. This was known years ago. In fact, the IRS commissioner Lois Lerner has admitted that all this was going on as far back as 2011.
I went back to our archives here and I found some things that will jog your memory. This is a Breitbart.com story from April 3rd of this year. "Obama: Government Tyranny Impossible Because 'Government Is Us.'" He was in Colorado. Obama was out pushing gun control. He "made an astonishing statement about gun rights advocates' fears of governmental gun seizures. He said that such worries would just feed 'into fears about government. You hear some of these folks: "I need a gun to protect myself from the government. 'We can't do background checks because the government's going to come take my guns away." The government's us. These officials are elected by you ... I am constrained as they are constrained by the system that our founders put in place.'"
No, friends, that's the problem. The government is not us anymore. The government is governing against the will of the people. You go issue by issue by issue, whatever it is, gun control, vast majority don't want what the government is doing. Obamacare. Vast majority don't want what the government is doing. Issue by issue by issue. This has been the whole bugaboo. Every Obama issue is opposed by a majority, sometimes a big majority of the American people. Yet every Obama initiative is being implemented. And in polling data -- this is what gave birth to the Limbaugh Theorem -- in polling data, people in poll after poll after poll, by majorities of sometimes into the 60 percentiles, oppose Obama's agenda, oppose his policies. But yet these same people give Obama a soaring approval rating. ...
It's because Obama is seen as constantly campaigning and not governing, and therefore not really being in charge of everything, and that's why his answer today to the question about the IRS is right out of the Limbaugh Theorem. (imitating Obama) "I didn't know what was going on, just a rogue group over there, low-level workers. If it's happening, we're gonna find out about it," as though he's got no fingerprints on it, nothing to do with it. When in fact he is behind everything that's happening in this government.
He has people in positions in this bureaucracy that are picked and chosen by him or people anointed by him and he's got like-minded people everywhere. And some of them predate him, some of these career appointees. You know, the left infests government. So the idea here that all of this is happening in a vacuum and Obama doesn't know anything about it, not true....This no longer is a government of, by, and for the people. This is a government governing against the will of the people. We pay the government to protect the liberties that we are guaranteed by the Constitution. They are working to undermine them.
The Obama regime uses government to punish people. ...And look at Obama in this statement in Denver. "I am constrained, as they are constrained, by the system that our founders put in place." That is an unwitting statement of truth. He is constrained -- what does constrained mean? It means things I can't do. Why is he even thinking about things he can't do? There are things he wants to do. There are all kinds of executive orders and waiving of the presidential wand to make it happen he would love to do. But the Constitution's in his way, and he wishes it weren't.
I don't look at this system as constraining. I look at this system as liberating. I look at the US Constitution, the declaration, our founding documents as liberating. Obama doesn't. The Democrats don't. They look at them as limiting them. Liberating individual liberty and freedom, that's the problem, as far as Obama and his gang are concerned."...
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