Pelosi: I know something about Gingrich that ensures he’ll never be president
posted at 10:40 pm on January 24, 2012 by Allahpundit
Via Greg Hengler. You make the call: An ominous warning that John Sununu was right to fear an “October surprise” if Newt is the nominee or a brilliant bit of bluffing aimed at spooking conservatives into nominating a cold fish like Romney instead of Gingrich? If you’re a Mitt fan, the answer is clear — she knows something from having served on the ethics committee when Newt was reprimanded and it’s only a matter of time before it comes out. If you’re a Newt fan, the answer is also clear — this is a classic case of the left telling you who it really fears by trying to sink him before he can gain any more electoral momentum. And if you’re a febrile political junkie who loves to obsess over political mind games, the answer is equally clear — Pelosi does know something, and she also knows that attacking Gingrich publicly this way will rally conservatives behind him, so she’s happy to do it precisely because it’ll help Newt win, which is just what Democrats want. Hmmmmm.
Is this one of the reasons why so many of the Republicans who served with Gingrich in Congress seem lukewarm about him? According to CNN, if Newt wins Florida, veteran Republican strategists expect Boehner, McConnell, and other GOP leaders to start calling around to top donors and asking them not to donate to Newt. Exit quotation from Gingrich last month: “I want to thank Speaker Pelosi for what I regard an early Christmas gift… If she is suggesting that she is going to use material that she developed while she was on the ethics committee, then that is a fundamental violation of the rules of the House and I hope that members would immediately file charges against her the second she does it.”
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I don’t believe for a second that all these employees doing it didn’t have supervisors monitoring their work.
Blake on May 15, 2013 at 6:15 PM
IRS just got sued for $250 BILLION, yes, that’s with a B, for confiscating 60 MILLION medical records on 10 MILLION patients in GULAG. I guess we’ll find out the answer soon enough.
riddick on May 15, 2013 at 6:23 PM
The best way to handle this is to fire every person in the office, then announce that every person who comes clean gets their job back except for the offenders……they get a front row seat in a courtroom.
antipc on May 15, 2013 at 6:25 PM
This involves up to 500 organizations all across the nation. How is it possible that it involves two people at a Reds game?
xkaydet65 on May 15, 2013 at 6:27 PM
Let’s play pretend and say they didn’t. That is enough reason to have people fired.
CW on May 15, 2013 at 6:30 PM
TWO EMPLOYEES? And what the hell was “management” doing all this time?
FIRE EVERY DAMNED ONE OF THEM!!!
GarandFan on May 15, 2013 at 6:32 PM
…or the local greedy-union rep.
slickwillie2001 on May 15, 2013 at 6:36 PM
Let’s play along here. Fine, so two lowly employees can make hell for hundreds of groups on a whim. Got it.
Imagine what one “rogue” employee can do equally to destroy the lives and livelihoods of individuals and businesses, let alone 106 thousand possible rogue IRS employees in the mix.
Some defense IRS. Nothing but more proof even if we accept you BS here that the entire thing needs to be scrapped and a truly fair and impartial system put in its place.
Borgcube on May 15, 2013 at 6:40 PM
Ahem…”bullshit”
That is all.
a5minmajor on May 15, 2013 at 6:43 PM
NO, it was the IRS commissioner before Miller who just resigned and it was, Holly Paz, a director; John Shafer, a manager; Gary Muthert, a screener; Liz Hofacre, a case coordinator; and Joseph Herr, a manager
jake49 on May 15, 2013 at 7:13 PM
No it wasn’t. Two people couldn’t have perpetrated something on this scale. Everybody knows it came from the rotting head of the top fish Obamuh. Oh yeah, the emperor is naked, too.
stukinIL4now on May 15, 2013 at 7:25 PM
Kinda strange that they’d toss the acting commissioner under the bus for the actions of two rogue employees, dont’cha think?
RationalIcthus on May 15, 2013 at 7:50 PM
Oh 2 employees. well there ya go. case closed. gee wasnt that easy?
johnnyU on May 15, 2013 at 8:46 PM
People just don’t get it. This is coming out right before the implementation of Marxist care. This is simply to gauge reaction for the real enforcement that is about to be unleashed. Wake up.
bgibbs1000 on May 16, 2013 at 4:55 AM
It’s clear the IRS data leakers were instructed to do so by a superior or more, and those superiors were instructed by Democrat senators and congressmen, and no doubt the White House.
It was NOT any rogue op by a few Democrat true believers.
Anti-Statist on May 16, 2013 at 10:57 AM
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