And so begins the opening act of the IRS Opera Seria:

 

BREAKING NEWS FROM POLITICO:

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"Lois Lerner will invoke her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself when she appears tomorrow before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, her lawyer told the panel in a letter.

"Lerner is the IRS official who triggered a Washington scandal by acknowledging that the agency wrongly targeted conservative groups. In the letter, Lerner's lawyer, William Taylor, asked Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) to excuse her from appearing at tomorrow's hearing.

""Requiring her to appear at the hearing merely to assert her Fifth Amendment privilege would have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her,' Taylor wrote.

"Issa has instead issued a subpoena to ensure that Lerner appears at the hearing.

"For more information... http://www.politico.com"

“DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH”

As Ron always said, “If you want to know who’s really in charge, ask yourself who can’t be criticized.”

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THE TIP OF THE IRS ICEBERG

The IRS is being sued for “wrongfully” seizing 60 million medical records from 10 million Americans.

UPI has reported that “the complaint alleges the IRS was ‘invasive and unlawful’ and stole access to intimate medical records that include patients’ treatment plans and therapies” and that ‘the records’ seizure could impact one in 25 Americans’”.

It began in 2011 when IRS agents obtained a search warrant for “financial data” on one person and somehow ended up with the illegal seizure of private information on 9,999,999 other Americans.

Keep in mind that the spurious, shameful and scandalous IRS will be responsible for enforcing many of the Affordable Care Act rules and regulations like treatment plans, therapies, existing conditions, medications and whether you are a teetotaler or a member of the Tea Party.

Heads up, Captain Obama! Many of we, the people, can see the tip of the IRS iceberg.

                                                           

                                                Google: http:bluepuzzle.org/iceberg

We know that only ten percent of its total mass is above the water and that you're responsible for the underlying structure.

Read more if you can stand it: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/17/irs-sued-seizing-60-million-medical-records/#.UZjSPS9VvWw.email#ixzz2TlMPnGef

THE PUBLIC CONUNDRUM

It has been reported that the IRS hurricane that struck last week, leaving dark clouds, debris and controversy over the White House and the Black President, has threated public confidence in the U.S. government agency responsible for tax collection and tax law enforcement.

Public confidence in government? That’s quite the conundrum.

How is it possible to have any confidence in a government run by a man re-elected despite a four-year record of failure who insisted two days ago that he knew nothing about the IRS internal investigation or the alleged singling out of conservative groups?

Obviously, there are missing links in the chain of command.

How can there be any public confidence in a government run for the people by the people we elected who authorized the funding for the more than $92 million dollars in bonuses—considered by the IRS as “taxable supplemental wages”— that were doled out by IRS “executives” to employees since 2009?

The beleaguered and unbelievable IRS will be responsible for enforcing many of the Affordable Care Act rules and regulations, the seven-foot stack of rules and regulations known as the “red tape tower”. Feeling confident about that?

How can there be any public confidence in a government that continues to suppress the truth about the September 11, 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack despite the release of 100 pages of emails between the “intelligence analysts” and State Department officials shortly after it happened?

Or in a Justice Department that seized the phone records from the Associated Press as part of the investigation into the leaks about the incident?

Or in the Attorney General who was “one of the officials” who had access to the leaked information?

Mr. Obama has been up to his elbows in damage control this week. But this isn’t about damage control. This is about the damage that has been done to our country that is spinning out of control. So much for “Hope and Change”, “Yes We Can” and “Forward”.

The mainstream media has already begun reporting on how the Republicans will try to pin this mess on the President.

Move along folks. Nothing to see here.