A number of reasonable changes to accommodate America’s new reality in dealing with the coronavirus crisis have been proposed and adopted by the federal government. Now, the deadline to file for taxes is one of them. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced on Friday that American taxpayers would not have to adhere to the normal April…
Take heart my Hispanic and Latino brothers and sisters. You’re not the only ones whose presence in the U.S. makes Republican’s skin crawl. At least if the parsed bigotry of South Carolina Republican Representative Trey Gowdy and some of his colleagues and constituents is any indication.
The Kochs will have an even greater reason to hate the Internal Revenue Service because due to a devious, and illegal, Koch plot to affect legislation neutering enforcement power of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Internal Revenue Service is beginning an investigation into an illegal Koch tax deduction.
Speaker of the House John Boehner will hold a vote to repeal the “Estate Tax” and give the very richest of the rich another government handout at the expense of the rest of the population.
A PPP poll shows Ted Cruz pulling into contention with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
While Senator Cruz’s fiery talk may have won over hardcore conservatives, he just struck a match to his 2016 presidential aspirations.
Under attack and exposed, the Kochs have gone on the offensive, with their minions singing paeans of praise for our “benevolent” overlords
Early in the week Friday Fox Follies crafted a touching remembrance after Mike Huckabee Quits Fox News to Explore 2016 Run. However, BREAKING NEWS put the kibosh on that.
There has been an ongoing Republican crusade to eradicate any legislative accomplish this President supported since the Koch brothers took control of the House after the 2010 midterms.
Whatever the reason, the so-called compromise appropriations bill is an affront to the American people, and revealed that many Democrats are what Howard Dean labeled “Republican-lite.”
To accomplish their goal of controlling the government, the Koch brothers have had to climb in bed with fundamentalist Christians intent on using the government to control and subvert women’s rights.
It is no great shock, then, that the religious right, staunch supporters of corrupt Republicans, are blatantly violating the law right up till Election Day and daring anyone to stop them because they know no-one will.
A series of episodes of egregious dishonesty this past week have clearly demonstrated Ted Cruz’s unsuitability for public office
There are very few nonpartisan, unbiased institutions left to us. But we always have the Congressional Budget Office. Or do we?
The organizers behind Pulpit Freedom Sunday do not even contend they are prohibited from preaching religion, they complain they cannot preach Republican politics and are seeking redress through the courts to use taxpayer dollars to campaign for Republicans.
There is little money for the agencies tasked with helping stop the virus due to the Republicans’ precious sequester the GOP House cannot possibly blame on anyone but their sick austerity economics.
McConnell asserted that belief in, and support for, the government is “an act of true radicalism,” something that makes the Founding Fathers and the great majority of Americans “true radicals.”
Ever since the Hobby Lobby decision there have been two words playing in my head but it had taken a week before I heard anyone else say them aloud. Corporate veil.
On Wednesday, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), released a letter to the press that he had sent to the White House earlier in the day. The letter demanded that Obama start deporting DREAMers.
Republicans have been attacking the IRS Commissioner, accusing him of lying to the American people over lost Nicole Flax emails but it turns out that there is no evidence the emails were lost.
Every time I hear a pundit or a pollster discuss the certainty that Republicans will hold the House or the high probability they will gain control of the Senate I suspect I am having an out-of-body experience.
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the jobs report for the month on May. For the fourth month in a row, American employers added over 200,000 jobs. For May, we saw 217,000 nonfarm payroll jobs added to the economy.
Diplomacy may not be as profitable as war (Cheney’s Haliburton made $39.5 billion off the Iraq war alone), but our lives should not be seen as playthings of the 1 percent
Republicans depend on the big money of Sheldon Addelson, the Koch Brothers and other corporatist billionaires. However, the GOP’s biggest financial resource is the secret money funneled through political action groups masquerading as social welfare groups aka 501 c 4 groups.
On Tuesday, Lord Christopher Monckton, a contributor for World Net Daily, penned an article for the far-right website complaining about the mainstream media and how it is too far to the left. He suggests a new far-right network.
In the end, it isn’t the 1 percent who are leaving the United States, but their money.
Sander Levin called Republicans out for their utter waste of government resources and taxpayer money, noting that 150 IRS employees have worked 70,000 hours for the fake IRS scandal.
Democrats filed a formal complaint with the special watchdog council that questions J. Russell George’s independence because he met and conspired secretly with Darrell Issa last year to issue an inaccurate, and misleading report accusing the IRS of specifically targeting conservative groups
CNN.com posted a story in their political section on Monday detailing a story that ran on a very conservative website on Sunday evening.
Fresh on the heels of the last John Doe investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s administration, which resulted in convictions for three former Walker aides, comes the revelation of yet another probe surrounding the Wisconsin Republican Governor.
Democrats Sandy Levin and Elijah Cummings demanded to know how much Issa’s IRS ‘investigations’ are costing the taxpayers. They suggest the total is “well into the millions of dollars.”
During a recent subcommittee hearing conducted by the House Ways and Means Committee, Republicans continued to push their false accusations that the President somehow committed crimes against conservative political groups by using the IRS to audit them.
The Republicans “new” plan to replace the ACA brings back everything that was wrong with the old system and they found away to make things even worse.
Republicans began 2014 the same way they started the past three years; working solely for their special interests’ campaign donations and against the American people.
As one would suspect, Rush Limbaugh totally lost his sh*t Thursday regarding the Chris Christie bridge scandal. For the most part, Limbaugh spent the entire show discussing the scandal.
Rep. Chris Smith’s bill amends the Internal Revenue Service code to require IRS auditors to investigate and interrogate sexual-assault survivors who access abortion care.
Republicans have campaigned on an anti-government platform for the past two elections and they have succeeded in hampering the government through their spending cuts and their precious sequester.
Late on Thursday evening the Senate reached a deal regarding the remaining Presidential nominees waiting to be confirmed. The Senate will now confirm Alejandro Mayorkas, Brian Davis and John Koskinen on Friday and then recess for the Christmas break.
The hope from Republicans was that Reid would just table some of the nominees and hold off until January after the Christmas break. That isn’t happening.
A group of House Republicans have announced their intent to propose legislation to give conservatives groups legal cover to continue discriminating against same-sex couples.
Louie Gohmert wants the Obama administration to come clean about non-existent scandals or face being defunded
Republicans really did it to themselves with the fake IRS “scandal”; they may lose the ability to shield their donors from public scrutiny.
ALEC is being targeted for an investigation for illegally financing extravagant trips for state legislators and misleading the Internal Revenue Service about their illicit activities.
It is high time to demand an investigation into Republicans in Congress and take appropriate action to remove them from office.
Republicans have made no secret underfunding the IRS is punitive for what they cite as inappropriate actions over the phony scandal when IRS employees scrutinizing political groups.
The Inspector General’s report didn’t mention the IRS targeting progressive groups for enhanced scrutiny, because Darrell Issa used the IG’s office to harass his own ‘Enemies List.’
While unable to comprehend that we do not share their outrage over their manufactured scandals, Republicans prove completely incapable of recognizing our outrage over actual crises
The real scandal is not that the IRS did its job, it is that groups like Rove’s GPS Crossroads and Koch brother’s Americans for Prosperity want tax exempt status for their partisan political fronts.
The IRS is tasked with collecting taxes to fund services all Americans depend on, but they can’t properly do their jobs because funding cuts have left them understaffed and impotent.
While looking for any reason at all to delegitimize President Obama, Sarah Palin decided that the IRS is responsible for helping the president win a second term.
Regardless if religious organizations abuse their agreement with the IRS or not, it is long past the time to end their government-sanctioned and taxpayer-funded entitlements once and for all.
On October 7, about a thousand preachers will violate the requirement they agreed to with the IRS by actively providing specific guidance about how to vote on issues and candidates.
