Letters Link Senator Jeanne Shaheen To IRS Targeting Scandal

by JASmius



Fascinating.  Would have been even more fascinating if this little nugget had come out a week or two ago, rather than on Election Day:

New Hampshire Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen was among six U.S. Senators who exchanged correspondence with a top official at the IRS about cracking down on the political activity of [Tea Party] groups, The Daily Caller reports.....

Leading a six-person group of Democrat colleagues, Shaheen wrote to the agency on March 9th, 2012, asking it to "immediately change the administrative framework for enforcement of the tax code as it applies to groups designated as [Tea Party] organizations."

In the letter, she also called for the introduction of a "bright line test" that would set a new rule requiring the groups to devote at least 51% of their efforts on [liberal political] activity, along with more elaborate disclosures about the finances of the groups.

As you might have guessed, New Hampshire Tea Party groups demanded that the IRS cough up the documents showing Senator Shaheen's complicity in these Gestapo tactics.  And as you also might have guessed, the IRS stonewalled them until after it was too late to deny her a second term:

"Despite Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire's FOIA request, the IRS has continued to stall and illegally ignore deadline after deadline for the past several months in order to delay the release of correspondence between their office and Senator Shaheen, and now we know why," a consultant for the PAC, Michael Biundo, told Breitbart.

"On the eve of the midterm elections, a plot between Senator Shaheen, Lois Lerner, and President Barack Obama's political appointee at the IRS to lead a program of harassment against conservative groups aimed to trample free speech has come to light.

"This abuse of government power should not be tolerated. Senator Shaheen should immediately release all correspondence with the IRS. Granite Staters deserve transparency and honesty from their elected officials but unfortunately, the Senator continues to hide."

If Granite Staters wanted transparency and honesty from their elected officials, Mr. Biundo, they wouldn't have elected (and be about to re-elect) a slimy, despicable sow like Jeanne Shaheen in the first place, now would they?  And besides, the correspondence has come to light, and y'all will have at least another six years to futilely and impotently berate Senator Shaheen for it, so I'm baffled as to about what you're griping.

I mean, what's a stolen election among "colleagues," right?