Obama era IRS and DOJ lawyers may have been front men then as they are now, but it was only their Republican buddies and Republican House Speakers for whom free speech and Tea Party groups posed big problems. The Tea Party was no threat to the left. WSJ Strassel article follows next paragraph:
"A headline in The Hill,
said it all: “Dems vow to protect [Republican House Speaker] Boehner from conservative coup.”..."[Republican House Speaker] Boehner who has grappled with dissent from the Tea Party wing since he took the
Speaker's gavel in 2011, has seen opposition to his reign grow this
year, even as he commands the largest GOP majority since the Hoover
administration." This
remarkable statement must leave Tea Partiers tearing their hair out. It
was only through the efforts of the Tea Party that Boehner became
Speaker at all. He owes his position to them;"...3/16/2015
Aug. 10, 2017, "Trump’s IRS Swamp," Wall St. Journal, Kimberley Strassel, opinion
"Obama-era lawyers are still obstructing lawsuits to hold the agency accountable."
"Donald Trump
promised to drain the swamp, and here’s a seven-month progress
report: The Washington bog is still as wide and fetid as ever. Consider
that Mr. Trump’s Justice Department has inexplicably continued to defend
the IRS’s misdeeds under President
Obama.
Voters put a Republican in the White House in part to
impose some belated accountability on the scandal-laden Obama
administration.
And the supreme scandal was the IRS’s assault on
tea-party groups....This abuse
stripped the right to political speech from thousands of Americans over
two election cycles. To this day, no one has answered for it.
The
groups targeted are still doggedly trying to obtain justice through
lawsuits that have dragged on for years. They believed Mr. Trump’s
election would bring an end to the government obstruction. It hasn’t.
“The posture of the DOJ and the IRS under the Trump administration is
identical to the posture under the Obama administration,”
Mark Meckler,
president of Citizens for Self-Governance, tells me. “Nothing has
changed.”
Mr.
Meckler was one of the founders of Tea Party Patriots. His current
organization is funding a class-action suit in Ohio federal court on
behalf of groups targeted by the IRS. So far the effort has cost $3
million.
That money is now going to fight Mr. Trump’s
administration. In recent months the Justice Department has continued
refusing to hand over documents or make witnesses available for
depositions. The plaintiffs finally managed to depose Ms. Lerner and
another key IRS player, Holly Paz, earlier this summer. But their
counsels successfully demanded that the transcripts be kept secret from
the public. As former federal employees, Ms. Lerner and Ms. Paz are
presumably getting backup from government lawyers.
The suit has
slowly ground through discovery and is teed up for trial early next
year. Yet in its latest stunt, the Justice Department has asked for
summary judgment—arguing that the facts are so far beyond dispute that
the judge should dispense with the trial and simply rule now. This is
laughable.
The judge is unlikely to even consider it, meaning the motion
is nothing more than a way to waste further time and sap the
plaintiffs’ resources.
To this day, conservative nonprofits are
being toyed with by the IRS. The Texas Patriots Tea Party has waited
five years for tax-exempt status and has continued to receive round
after round of intrusive agency questions, long after the scandal was
exposed and the IRS promised reform.
Other litigants are experiencing the same treatment. The IRS is
fighting Judicial Watch in a suit over document requests. Government
lawyers are hamstringing a suit against the IRS brought by Z Street, a
pro-Israel nonprofit—as described last month in an op-ed on these pages.
The
problem is that the same old Obama-era lawyers have been left to run
these cases in the same old hostile ways. Who are these people?
Laura Beckerman,
one of the lead lawyers defending the IRS in the Ohio class
action, left government only this month. Her LinkedIn profile says she
is now pro bono coordinating counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and
Ethics in Washington. CREW is among the most liberal outfits in the
capital, fanatically devoted to taking down conservatives.
That’s the
type still calling the shots in Mr. Trump’s bureaucracy.
The
Justice Department’s job is to defend the government, but it is also
supposed to pursue justice. And there is no question the IRS did wrong.
It has been documented by the Treasury Department’s inspector general
and admitted by the IRS itself.
It’d be one thing if the plaintiffs were
demanding a billion-dollar payout, but they aren’t. Their main request
is that the IRS come clean on what happened, and the government is
resisting with all its power. The real question is why the Justice
Department is even fighting this suit, when it ought to be leading a
renewed investigation into what happened and how it got covered up.
This
stonewalling cannot be laid solely at the feet of IRS Commissioner
John Koskinen,
another Obama appointee who bizarrely remains in his post. The
IRS, as the client, no doubt is calling many of the legal shots. But the
Justice Department has the authority in important cases to make the
ultimate judgment call on how the government will handle the litigation.
It’s
time for some judgment. Senior leaders in the Justice Department may be
wary of replacing or redirecting attorneys on the IRS cases, fearing it
might provoke another round of media caterwauling. The White House may
be wary of canning Mr. Koskinen, thinking it would be cast as another
high-profile firing.
But Mr. Trump was hired to impose exactly that sort
of accountability. If he’s going to get rapped for dramatic moves, it
might as well be for doing something that serves justice."
.....................................
Added: Not mentioned in above article, it wasn't Democrats who needed to silence Tea Party groups, it was the Establishment Republicans (de facto Democrats). Tea Party groups weren't about to peel away many democrat votes or gain ascendancy on the left. 4 articles follow: NPR (2012), NY Times (2012), Angelo Codevilla (2013), Lester Jackson (2015):
Once "boxed in" by the Tea Party, GOP House Speaker John Boehner was greatly helped by Obama's 2012 re-election: NPR.
12/8/2012, "Once Boxed-In, Boehner May Finally Be Master Of The House," NPR, Frank James
"In a paradoxical way, Obama's re-election victory coupled with
congressional Democrats adding to their numbers may have helped Boehner.
Some of those wins came at the expense of the Tea Party, the
conservative movement whose affiliated House members have been very
willing to stand up to Boehner.
In recent weeks, Boehner...has gotten his entire leadership team to sign his tax-raising,
fiscal-cliff counteroffer....
"That was a message that the [Republican] conference as a whole has read the tea leaves," Feehery wrote in a blog post in which he also ticked off other indicators of Boehner's strength."...
Despite complaints from conservative activists and bloggers, however, Boehner remains the most powerful Republican in Washington."...
..............
In Nov. 2012, GOP House Speaker Boehner reminded Republicans that their party had lost badly in the 2012 election, so it was time for Republicans to fall in line, follow his instructions, and realize democrats have the upper hand:
11/10/2012, “Boehner Tells House G.O.P. to Fall in Line,” NY Times, by Jonathan Weisman and Jennifer Steinhauer
------------------------
2/15/2013, "Breaking the UniParty," Angelo M. Codevilla
"The Republican Party’s leaders have functioned as junior members of
America’s single ruling party, the UniParty. Acting as the proverbial
cockboat in the wake of the Democrats’ man-of-war, they have made
Democratic priorities their own when the White House and the Congress were in the hands of Republicans as well as in those of Democrats, and
when control has been mixed.
The UniParty, the party of government, the
party of Ins, continues to consist of the same people. The Outs are
always the same people too: American conservatives. They don’t have a
party.
Whatever differences exist within the Uniparty, between Republican
John Boehner and Democrat Nancy Pelosi, between Republican Mitch
McConnell and Democrat Harry Reid, get worked out behind closed doors.
Those differences are narrow....
The UniParty is unanimous: more of the
same!
Hence, so long as the Uniparty exists, mere voters will have no way of affecting what the government does."...
......................
""Boehner,
who has grappled with dissent from the Tea Party wing since he took the
Speaker's gavel in 2011, has seen opposition to his reign grow this
year, even as he commands the largest GOP majority since the Hoover
administration."
This
remarkable statement must leave Tea Partiers tearing their hair out. It
was only through the efforts of the Tea Party that Boehner became
Speaker at all. He owes his position to them;"...
3/16/2015, "Speaker Boehner: Democrat Dissenter," American Thinker, Lester Jackson
"On March 3, after repeatedly huffing and puffing in support
the Republican position on one of the major issues of the 2014
election, John Boehner predictably went back on his word, betraying
conservatives on a signature campaign promise: to rein in President
Obama’s unconstitutional and lawless actions in support of lawlessness.
This was Boehner’s final surrender, ceding the last vestige of the
immense power of the purse that a majority of voters sent Republicans to
Washington to exercise. In ratifying law-breaking by both the president
and millions of aliens, he removed any lingering doubt that he is the
Democrat-preferred Obama-Pelosi House Speaker.
A headline in The Hill,
said it all: “Dems vow to protect Boehner from conservative coup.” This
headline and the accompanying Mike Lillis story validate and vindicate
articles recently published here, here and here.
Democrats now consider Boehner to be their puppet in a one-party
leftist dictatorship ruling against a conservative country. So it was no
surprise that, when conservatives protested this latest Boehner
betrayal, Democrats rallied to reciprocate the vast aid and comfort he
had given them.
Reflecting media bias, Lillis echoed a longstanding and oft-repeated distortion of reality:
"Boehner,
who has grappled with dissent from the Tea Party wing since he took the
Speaker's gavel in 2011, has seen opposition to his reign grow this
year, even as he commands the largest GOP majority since the Hoover
administration."
This
remarkable statement must leave Tea Partiers tearing their hair out. It
was only through the efforts of the Tea Party that Boehner became
Speaker at all. He owes his position to them; they are not
there by his sufferance. It was their reinforcements arriving after the
2010 election that provided the Republicans with their majority. By
default, Boehner happened to be the senior RINO party hack already
there.
As
for growing opposition “even as [Boehner] commands the largest GOP
majority since the Hoover Administration,” that majority was obtained
because victorious Republicans campaigned on a message of opposition to
President Obama’s abuse of power, especially on two critical issues:
the
Obama-Pelosi takeover of the health care system and the legalization of
law-breaking by millions of aliens.
It would be stunning if Boehner,
Pelosi or Obama could cite a single Republican Representative who
campaigned in support of illegal immigration or what swiftly became
Obama-Boehner Care.
The painful truth is not that Boehner must “grapple with dissent” but that those who elected him must confront his relentlessly dishonest and dictatorial dissent from the issue positions on which they campaigned.
.
"Lester Jackson,
Ph.D., a former college Political Science teacher, views mainstream
media suppression of the truth as essential to harmful judicial
activism. His recent articles are collected here and here."
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George Soros gave Ivanka's husband's business a $250 million credit line in 2015 per WSJ. Soros is also an investor in Jared's business.
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Swamp doing fine: Trump DOJ and IRS identical to Obama's. Conservative and Tea Party groups were deprived of free speech over two election cycles under Obama, now fighting same battles with Trump DOJ which continues to withhold documents, mocks pending lawsuit v IRS, stalls and wastes plaintiff resources-Wall St. Journal, Kimberley Strassel
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