{"id":10320,"date":"2013-05-13T13:36:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T20:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10320"},"modified":"2013-05-13T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T20:36:49","slug":"personal-update5132013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/13\/personal-update5132013\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update–5\/13\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a rough day.  I had little sleep, because of wrenched leg, and severe coughing, because I\u2019m on no water.  Doing physical therapy with a bum leg zero fun.  I want a cup of coffee!<\/font><\/p>\n

To make matters worse, the Republicans actually have something valid, about which to bitch.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Internal Revenue Service\u2019s special scrutiny of small-government groups applying for tax-exempt status went beyond keyword hunts for organizations with \u201cTea Party\u201d or \u201cPatriot\u201d in their names, to a more overtly ideological search for applicants seeking to \u201cmake America a better place to live\u201d or \u201ccriticize how the country is being run,\u201d according to part of a draft audit by the inspector general that has been given to Capitol Hill. <\/p>\n

The head of the division on tax-exempt organizations, Lois Lerner, was briefed on the effort in June 2011, seemingly contradicting her assertion on Friday that she learned of the effort from news reports. But the audit shows that she seemed to work hard to rein in the focus on conservatives and change it to a look at any political advocacy group of any stripe\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The Republicans are being complete hypocrites.  What Democrats have does does not begin to hold a candle to Republican crimes,such as politicizing the entire federal government with campaign training, or firing seven US Attorneys, because they refused to file bogus charges against Democratic candidates, right before the election.<\/font><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, we can\u2019t ignore it the way Republicans would.  We are better than that, so the people responsible must be severely disciplined.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a rough day.  I had little sleep, because of wrenched leg, and severe coughing, because I\u2019m on no water.  Doing physical therapy with a bum leg zero fun.  I want a cup of coffee! To make matters worse, the Republicans actually have something valid, about which to bitch. The Internal Revenue Service\u2019s special […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}