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    UPDATE 2: My friend Patterico has known Mr. Kerner for many years and he sheds some more light on this topic. He maintains that the meeting had nothing to do with the Tea Party groups and points out that Lerner’s Tea Party targeting had already happened well before this meeting took place. 

    Henry is the last person in the world who would ever be a part of targeting Tea Party groups. He was instrumental in calling out the IRS for what it did.

    …

    Nothing in the quoted passage from the IRS staffer’s notes suggests that Henry was talking about Tea Party groups — and Lois Lerner’s admission that the IRS had previously targeted these groups came just ten days later, meaning that the IRStargeting had long since happened before Henry asked the question (assuming the notes are accurate, which I do not). Obviously, the years-long targeting did not take place in ten days. So what was Henrytalking about? Even though the IRS/Tea Party scandal was an outrage, there are definitely non-profits that abuse their status as supposedly apolitical outfits (can you say ACORN?) and a new staffer asking questions about what to do about such abusive groups is hardly evidence of targeting groups for improper reasons.

  • the updates to.this story certainly point to mccain targeting groups like acorn...which all republicans were targeting.

    this is a half ass atmpt by some people to associate mccain with liberals. 

  • McCain was a cock sucking sleaze ball but calling him a liberal is a bit over the top.

  • mccain was a dirtbag, that just clinches it even more. A texsag hero.

  • the updates to.this story certainly point to mccain targeting groups like acorn...which all republicans were targeting.

    this is a half ass atmpt by some people to associate mccain with liberals. 

    @clevfan4life said:

    the updates to.this story certainly point to mccain targeting groups like acorn...which all republicans were targeting.

    this is a half ass atmpt by some people to associate mccain with liberals. 

    LOL associate McCain with liberals...the guy who campaigned against Obamacare and then was the deciding vote against repeal of Obamacare:

    John McCain's health care hypocrisy | Editorial

    https://www.nj.com/opinion/2017/07/john_mccains_health_care_contradiction_editorial.html

     

  • Watch Classless McCain Betray the Republican Party, Whoop It Up with Democrats

    Senator John McCain betrayed his party and the people who voted for him on his promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. He told the Democrats beforehand but not the Majority Leader or most Republicans that he was planning to vote against the bill.

    He was seen hugging Schumer and Feinstein and laughing it up with Democrats after the vote. Several Democrats are alleged to have heard him say, “Let’s see Donald make America great again.”

    https://www.independentsentinel.com/watch-classless-mccain-betray-the-republican-party-whoop-it-up-with-democrats/

  • John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine.

    That doesn't give him a free pass to be a crooked politician furthermore you liberals hated the guy's guts when he was in office, and now only love him because he feuded with Trump who you hate worse.

    WSS

  • John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine.

    That doesn't give him a free pass to be a crooked politician furthermore you liberals hated the guy's guts when he was in office, and now only love him because he feuded with Trump who you hate worse.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine.

    That doesn't give him a free pass to be a crooked politician furthermore you liberals hated the guy's guts when he was in office, and now only love him because he feuded with Trump who you hate worse.

    WSS

    "John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine."

    Which is why Trump who never served in the military was wrong to criticize his war record. I think every American should respect McCain for what he went through for five years as a POW. 

    As a politician McCain stunk and his vote on not repealing Obamacare is all you need to know about how petty he could be when he threw his constituents (who believed him when he campaigned on repealing Obamacare) under the bus and voted with the democrats not to repeal Obamacare just to spite Trump.

  • @westside-steve said:

    John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine.

    That doesn't give him a free pass to be a crooked politician furthermore you liberals hated the guy's guts when he was in office, and now only love him because he feuded with Trump who you hate worse.

    WSS

    "John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine."

    Which is why Trump who never served in the military was wrong to criticize his war record. I think every American should respect McCain for what he went through for five years as a POW. 

    As a politician McCain stunk and his vote on not repealing Obamacare is all you need to know about how petty he could be when he threw his constituents (who believed him when he campaigned on repealing Obamacare) under the bus and voted with the democrats not to repeal Obamacare just to spite Trump.

    @oldbrownsfan said:

    "John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine."

    Which is why Trump who never served in the military was wrong to criticize his war record. I think every American should respect McCain for what he went through for five years as a POW. 

     exactly.

    As a politician McCain stunk and his vote on not repealing Obamacare is all you need to know about how petty he could be when he threw his constituents (who believed him when he campaigned on repealing Obamacare) under the bus and voted with the democrats not to repeal Obamacare just to spite Trump.

     also exactly.

    WSS

  • John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine.

    That doesn't give him a free pass to be a crooked politician furthermore you liberals hated the guy's guts when he was in office, and now only love him because he feuded with Trump who you hate worse.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine.

    That doesn't give him a free pass to be a crooked politician furthermore you liberals hated the guy's guts when he was in office, and now only love him because he feuded with Trump who you hate worse.

    WSS

    who here loved john McCain?

  • @westside-steve said:

    John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine.

    That doesn't give him a free pass to be a crooked politician furthermore you liberals hated the guy's guts when he was in office, and now only love him because he feuded with Trump who you hate worse.

    WSS

    who here loved john McCain?

    @clevfan4life said:

    who here loved john McCain?

    Tex for one.

  • @westside-steve said:

    John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine.

    That doesn't give him a free pass to be a crooked politician furthermore you liberals hated the guy's guts when he was in office, and now only love him because he feuded with Trump who you hate worse.

    WSS

    who here loved john McCain?

    @clevfan4life said:

    who here loved john McCain?

    I appreciated him for his service to our country.

    As a politician, he was as useful as a dick on a statue.