The Transparency Continues: Obama Demands Resignation of IRS Official … Who Was Quitting Anyway
President Barack Obama has thrown his acting IRS commissioner overboard, making Steven Miller the highest-ranking political casualty thus far in a series of scandals that have swept his administration in recent weeks.
In a hastily called press conference in the East Room of the White House, Obama told reporters that he had asked Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew to find out who was responsible for a program that targeted tea party groups and other conservative organizations for a special level of intrusive questioning after they applied for tax-exempt charitable statuses.
‘Lew took the first step by requesting and accepting the resignation of the acting director of the IRS,’ Obama said.
‘It’s important,’ he added, ‘to institute new leadership that can help restore confidence going forward.’
Stirring. Inspirational, even. Oh, my, the accountability!
But in an email to IRS employees, Miller claimed he would only be leaving next month because his assignment would be over.
‘It is with regret that I will be departing from the IRS as my acting assignment ends in early June,’ Miller wrote. ‘This has been an incredibly difficult time for the IRS given the events of the past few days, and there is a strong and immediate need to restore public trust in the nation’s tax agency.’
D’oh!
If the Daily Mail is right, I am sure our watchdogs in the media will let us know ASAP. They’re not going to roll over for Obama, no sireebob.
Right now the L.A. Times story on this does not have even a hint of a notion that this guy was leaving anyway. But just you wait…
Every time you think they can’t top themselves . . . they top themselves.
Patterico (9c670f) — 5/15/2013 @ 6:31 pmand “Hillary’s Talking Points Ventriloquist Doll, Susan Rice, “Definitely” Being Promoted to National Security Adviser”
gee… I feel safer already!
Colonel Haiku (747414) — 5/15/2013 @ 6:34 pm‘what do they read,’ at the Dog Trainer,
narciso (3fec35) — 5/15/2013 @ 6:35 pm‘what do they read,’ at the Dog Trainer,
Hopefully, it will be the want ads and real soon.
Colonel Haiku (747414) — 5/15/2013 @ 6:37 pmSusan “Lambchop” Rice…
Colonel Haiku (747414) — 5/15/2013 @ 6:38 pmwe’ve gone from hope and change
to instituting new leadership that can help restore confidence going forward
and we only had to borrow like seven trillion dollars
obama voters is dumb
happyfeet (c60db2) — 5/15/2013 @ 6:39 pmIn other news from Washington, Hillary Clinton tendered her resignation as Secretary of State as a result of the Benghazi scandal.
At this point, it makes no difference !
Elephant Stone (e319ad) — 5/15/2013 @ 6:43 pmI note they fired possibly the one guy in IRS management who had nothing to do with it. Probably the guy who leaked it.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 5/15/2013 @ 6:57 pmfrom Hope and Change to
Hope and Change teh Damn Subject
gutter politics
“Shame… ah say shameful, suh!”
– Eric “Leghorn” Holder
Colonel Haiku (747414) — 5/15/2013 @ 7:09 pmOh, my, the accountability!
We Americans put this debacle into the presidency, and so we should wear it like a scarlet letter. Far too many of us — based on recent opinion polls, in which the clod in the White House apparently still generates far more benefit of the doubt than he deserves or will ever deserve (sort of the US’s version of Hugo Chavez) — have incubated what’s going on, and we’ll never live this one down. So: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves…”
To all the people throughout society that just about all of us know personally — referring to our devoutly left-leaning spouses, significant others, siblings, relatives, cousins, friends, neighbors, co-workers, colleagues and acquaintances — the following is a tribute to them:
^ This is what blind liberalism will get you, and I truly don’t know a conservative counterpart to such a place and people—ie, folks who in overwhelming numbers have religiously voted for the left/Democrats since the early 1960s, the last time Detroit had a Republican mayor. The IRS, Obama and Michigan’s largest city are like a devious, contemptible version of the Three Stooges.
Mark (9ba6f2) — 5/15/2013 @ 7:12 pmI’m thinking Martha Stewart must be looking at all these lying liars and thinking WTF.
elissa (33fa31) — 5/15/2013 @ 7:38 pmJay Leno:
“I love this. I love what IRS Commissioner Steve Miller said today about this whole targeting conservative groups thing. He said, “Mistakes were made, but they were no way made with a political or partisan motivation.” “Mistakes were made.” Try that during your next IRS audit. “Look, I admit mistakes were made. Can we move on?” That works so well.”
elissa (33fa31) — 5/15/2013 @ 7:47 pmBreadthless…….
1) Firing a guy who is quitting
Rodney King's Spirit (ae12ec) — 5/15/2013 @ 8:05 pm2) Implementing policies already formulated before the scandal hit
3) Asking for a Congressional Review that he has no authority to ask for.
My guess is that we are just scratching the surface of IRS malfeasance and criminality. It is beginning to appear that information that is legally confidential has been released for crass political purposes.
This case screams for an independent counsel.
Calfed (5b899d) — 5/15/2013 @ 8:38 pmFinally, a sacrificial lamb.
AZ Bob (c11d35) — 5/15/2013 @ 8:43 pmThrow all of the stories at the wall, see if any of them stick.
Fired.
Asked to resign.
Told to resign.
Had already resigned.
Had already submitted retirement.
I’m not sure if he’s a scapegoat or the escaped goat!
Lots of room under the bus, still.
htom (412a17) — 5/15/2013 @ 8:48 pmThe phrase “the fish stinks from the head” probably — likely — is applicable in this case. The big question is just how high up that stink goes.
Mark (9ba6f2) — 5/15/2013 @ 8:53 pmObama is leading with his behind.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/15/2013 @ 10:10 pmProbably should have put the guy on double-secret probation.
Leviticus (17b7a5) — 5/16/2013 @ 12:10 am“And if it ever was there and it left/
does it mean it was never true?”
– The Indigo Girls
Good question, mademoiselles. The better question, at this point, is probably “And if it never was there or it left/ does it mean it was ever true?”
Exercise in negation. Bear with us, we’re a deliberate sort.
Leviticus (17b7a5) — 5/16/2013 @ 12:45 am“Move along, no story here…”
– America’s Press Corpse
Colonel Haiku (9a081e) — 5/16/2013 @ 4:13 am