The Lois Lerner Affair and Beyond

By Steven Laib

We have finally seen reveled what many of us knew all along; that Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS exempt organizations unit, was up to her eyeballs in the mishandling of the applications by Tea Party and similar groups that occurred during the run-up to the 2012 election. Lerner’s job was to oversee the process of examining applications for tax exempt status by anyone who happens to be interested in obtaining such status. It could be a local arts organization, a sports for youth club, or a church. In this case, it happened, primarily, to be groups who filed under the Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(4) which permits groups such as local Tea Party organizations to file as social welfare organizations. Applications under Section 501(c) generally take about 6 weeks to process and if the applications are filled out properly, are a virtual rubber stamp proceeding. I can make this statement as someone who has successfully filed numerous such applications for past clients. The Tea Party groups and particularly the Houston based True the Vote organization should have been processed without comment, unless there was something missing from their paperwork……But the problem goes further. Lerner was, according to emails obtained by Congress, feeding information contained in the tax exemption applications to Congressman Elijah Cummings…….To Read More......

My Take – The writer goes on to assert there needs to be legislation to allow the legislature to prosecute those the administration refused to prosecute - as in this case where Holder who’s in this up to his armpits, and who clearly won’t do the job he swore to perform.  Well, further legislation is unnecessary.   Merely repeal the 17th amendment.  The reason Obama and Holder haven’t been impeached already is because the House majority believes it would be an effort in futility since the Senate would never vote to kick these two clowns out of office. 

 

If the 17th were repealed Senators would once again be appointed by the states and become the state’s ambassadors to the central government - and these two would be gone, and it seems unlikely Obama might not have been elected in the first place since the story of his birth would have been brought into the open one way or the other.  The problems all these writers discuss are the result of two things - all this can be brought into control by repealing the 16th and 17th amendments, which would elimnate the need for an IRS as we know it, and it would restore the balance of power the founding fathers worked so diligently to create.