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The IRS Union and Its Antipathy to Tea Party Types

The American Spectator

by Jeffrey Lord

May 16, 2013

Obama, IG Report refuse to touch powerful Treasury Employees Union headed by ex-IRS agent.

“My question is who is going to jail?”
— House Speaker John Boehner on the IRS Scandal

The President couldn’t even bring himself to breathe a word of the truth.

He could fire some hapless Acting Commissioner, but last night Mr. Obama never came close to discussing that which must never be discussed.

The IRS?

It’s about a union: the National Treasury Employees Union. The NTEU. A left-wing union representing 150,000 employees in 31 separate government agencies, including the IRS. A union that not only endorsed President Obama for election and re-election, but a union whose current president, Colleen Kelly, was a 14-year IRS agent and now is both union president and Obama administration appointee (of which more in a moment).

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