Marco Rubio Humiliates Himself By Demanding That the Non-Existent IRS Commissioner Resign

[Tx4obama]

Marco Rubio Humiliates Himself By Demanding That the Non-Existent IRS Commissioner Resign

In a letter to Treasury Sec. Jack Lew, Sen. Rubio (R-FL) wrote, “Furthermore, it is clear the IRS cannot operate with even a shred of the American people’s confidence under the current leadership. Therefore, I strongly urge that you and President Obama demand the IRS Commissioner’s resignation, effectively (sic) immediately. No government agency that has behaved in such a manner can possibly instill any faith and respect from the American public.”

First of all, Rubio’s letter has a big typo in it. I think he meant effective immediately, not effectively immediately. Things get even worse for Marco, when you realize that he just asked for the resignation of someone who doesn’t really exist. That’s right, Rubio is so busy plotting his 2016 presidential campaign that he never bothered to check to see if there actually was an IRS commissioner.

It turns out that the previous IRS commissioner was appointed by Bush, and he resigned last November.

Wait a minute, the IRS scandal that the Republican Party is blaming Obama for happened while a Bush appointee was in charge. This really does keep getting worse for Rubio.

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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/marco-rubio-humiliates-demanding-non-existent-irs-commissioner-resign.html

[ellie]

1. Hahahahahahahahaha!

What a blockhead.

[DonViejo]

2. McConnell has called for the Commissioner's resignation, too...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday joined Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in calling for the resignation of the Internal Revenue Service commissioner after the agency admitted to inappropriately singling out conservative non-profit groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/mcconnell-irs-level-targeting-occurring-across-board

[Cha]

14. Ooops. Stupid knee jerks

thanks DV

I got this from one of the comments on Jason Easley's article..

Sandy

Interesting. Some will remember this:
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/07/local/me-allsaints7

The IRS under the Bush administration sent the IRS after All Saints church in Pasadena just before the 2004 election, threatening its nonprofit status because of a comment by a visiting speaker.

At the same time, the Bushies were hiring all the graduates they could from Pat Robertson’s law school (Regents law school) and packing the federal justice department and civil service with them, helped by the federal civil service human resource manager who was also hired from Regents.

They bragged about it on line for quite awhile, then the page disappeared.
But the infromation is still out there.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2007/04/whos_the_boss.html

Ah yes, I do remember it now..

[monmouth3]

3. If Rubio wants to be President he's really going to have to improve his "detail-oriented" skills. I

mean for gawds sake, a little research, even a google would have avoided this. He's such a putz...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. Oh jezzus fucking chryst tap-dancing on a saltine.

Simply amazing.

[DFW]

5. Headline next Halloween:

"McConnell and Rubio denounce Van Pelt parents for allowing Great Pumpkin worship by their children"

[wercal]

6. Well, some fella is getting questioned on Friday

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/house-panel-formally-irs-commissioner-friday-204016469.html

The 'acting' commissioner.

[maindawg]

7. It turns out that the previous IRS commissioner was appointed by Bush, and he resigned last November

I am going to go out on a limb and assume that the reason there is not Commissioner is because the rethugs have blocked all presidential appointments ?

[blackspade]

8. what a dumbass.

[lrellok]

9. This inane coddeling of the radical right needs to cease.

OK, Lets think a second here. You have how many tea party groups running all over our country publicly advocating tax evasion, and when the IRS FINALLY starts investigating them to see if they are actually committing tax evasion, they begin screaming that they are being discriminated against.

Does this standard apply to left wing groups as well? Are we allowed to advocate potentially illegal conduct and are immune from investigation on the grounds of free speech?

[another_liberal]

11. Thank you for making that point loud and clear.

There was a reason for what the IRS did, and it appears more and more that it was, in fact, a very good reason.

BTW: Welcome to DU!

[DesertDiamond]

10. Rubio also lacks basic grammar, or perhaps vocabulary. "instill any faith and respect from" ...

that sentence does not work. You do not instill from. You instill into. He may have meant to say "earn" any faith and respect from.

[Mr. X]

12. I put this up on FB a few minutes ago.

Republicans are trying to blame the IRS investigations on Democrats...

This is pretty hard to do when the person in charge of the IRS during the time that the investigations occurred was appointed by a Republican.

Additionally, Rubio is demanding that the IRS Commissioner resign over these allegations. The commissioner in charge during this time has already resigned though, back in November of 2012.

But one thing that Rubio got right was this - "No government agency that has behaved in such a manner can possibly instill any faith and respect from the American public"

And I agree - they can't. But we can't forget who it was, what party it was, that chose who would lead the IRS. We can't allow these people to escape the blame for a situation that they helped to create.

[Shankapotomus]

13. Bunch of posers the GOP is

The whole planet should just refuse to recognize their authority in any position beyond circus clowns.

[Cha]

15. Thanks Tx

The mainstream media has reacted to Rubio’s latest attempt to run with his shoelaces tied together by giving him a free pass. They are pushing the headline that Rubio is calling for the IRS chief to resign, and then mentioning later in their stories that there really is no IRS chief. What they fail to note is that only an idiot who is more concerned with making political hay while the sun is shining would bother to send a letter to the Treasury Secretary that contained typos and was factually inaccurate.