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Republicans starting to show some back bone

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Sunday, July 8, 2012 4:12 AM

http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/Governor-says-IRS-new-gestapo-in-ra
dio-address.html

Romney should make him his VP pick.

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Sunday, July 8, 2012 10:44 AM

PENGUIN

A Gestapo voted on and passed by...Congress.

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

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Sunday, July 8, 2012 10:23 PM

FREMDFIRMA

And here I though this'd be about yet another Republican moral crusader outed for "back boning" other men...

-F

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Monday, July 9, 2012 6:48 AM

CAVETROLL

Try not paying taxes and see how PC and friendly the IRS is.

Kwindbago, hot air and angry electrons

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Monday, July 9, 2012 7:22 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

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Originally posted by whozit:
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/Governor-says-IRS-new-gestapo-in-ra
dio-address.html

Romney should make him his VP pick.

Saw this over on CNN. com, and I wondered if it would get posted here.

Hyperbolic rhetoric. I looked it up: Gestapo was Secret State Police, with an emphasis on security.

There ain't nothin' SECRET about the IRS, and they're not a Police agency, notably not about state Security. Nazi Germany had tax collectors too. I tried to find the name of the particular bureau in charge of that, but couldn't locate it in quick research, but there was a Ministry of Finance, and a couple of other ministries where it could have been.

Does the IRS strong-arm folks? Maybe, but not in the league of the Gestapo, and with nowhere near with the influence and force the real Gestapo did.

So let's put a sock in this one.Or as we might say it in German, Mannliche Scheibe.

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Monday, July 9, 2012 8:02 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Well, it's a thread by Whatzit, so anyone expected otherwise? Exactly as you said, hyperbolic rhetoric, same old, same old.

Besides, the idiot has already apologized:

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Maine Gov. Paul LePage apologized Monday for referring to the Internal Revenue Service as the "Gestapo" in his weekly radio address over the weekend.

"It was not my intent to insult anyone, especially the Jewish Community, or minimize the fact that millions of people were murdered," the Republican governor said in a statemen. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/09/maine-gov-calls-irs-th
e-new-gestapo/

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Monday, July 9, 2012 5:25 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Well, it's a thread by Whatzit, so anyone expected otherwise? Exactly as you said, hyperbolic rhetoric, same old, same old.

Besides, the idiot has already apologized:
Quote:
Maine Gov. Paul LePage apologized Monday for referring to the Internal Revenue Service as the "Gestapo" in his weekly radio address over the weekend.

"It was not my intent to insult anyone, especially the Jewish Community, or minimize the fact that millions of people were murdered," the Republican governor said in a statemen. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/09/maine-gov-calls-irs-th
e-new-gestapo/

I don't think he should apologize to the Jews, even though they are voters. He didn't insult them. He should apologize to everyone who works for the IRS, from the lowliest clerk to the bureau chief. Maybe nobody likes them, but they do a necessary government job, and that's no reason to insult them. Maybe he could do something sincere, like refusing to accept federal money for anything in his jurisdiction, since it's tainted with their "Gestapo"-like attitudes and actions. Yeah, I know, fat chance of that happening. He wants the bucks, but he also wants to bite the hand that feeds him.

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