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From the WashingtonTimes.com:’

IRS ignoring 60 percent of taxpayers’ calls as deadline looms

by Stephan Dinan

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen aid Tuesday that service at his agency has gotten so bad that they are ignoring more than 60 percent of taxpayers’ phone calls during this tax season

Speaking at the National Press Club, Mr Koskinen pleaded for more money, saying a budget boost would help them staff their overwhelmed customer service lines. He also said it would help reverse staffing cuts in their compliance division, where he said the government will lose $2 billion this year in money it would otherwise have been able to collect if it had better staffing.

But wait; I thought Mr Obama was going to hire, literally, thousands more agents in order to enforce ObamaKare. Why can’t those agents be cross-trained to do something more constructive like, say, answer phones?

Oh wait, here comes the key paragraph:

Congress has cut or held the agency’s funding static for several years now, with lawmakers deeming the agency recalcitrant in solving problems, and unrepentant for having targeted tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny.

So I ask: just what is it that the federal government does well? It isn’t the IRS; it isn’t the Treasury; it isn’t the EPA; it isn’t Veterans Affairs; and it isn’t Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor or Transportation.

And it most certainly isn’t the Department of State.

Guess what: it won’t be ObamaKare either.

As far as Mr Obama is concerned, no big deal. It’s what he does. Get used to it.

From the DailyCaller.com:

by Brendan Boredelon

President Obama rejected the notion that the IRS’ targeting of Tea Party groups was illegal — or even improper — during his interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Thursday.

Obama was at American University to sell his flailing healthcare law to the young people upon which the insurance exchanges heavily rely. As promised, Matthews allowed him to make his pitch with no tough questions or pushback.

But the interview became interesting when the Hardball host asked why Americans were growing increasingly skeptical of government. Obama noted that the media never seems interested in government success stories. “When we do things right, they don’t get a lot of attention,” he said.

A wonderful little dismissive comment in the last paragraph:

President Obama later passed blame for his failures onto his cabinet agencies — claiming that “somebody somewhere at this very moment is screwing something up” — and repeated the nauseating platitude that “government’s not somebody else. Government’s us.”

With Mr Obama it’s always the same: seldom is he ever responsible for any failures within his administration. But more importantly: if the IRS’s purposeful targeting of Conservative groups was a non-issue, then why did this occur:

Lois G. Lerner, the woman at the center of the IRS tea party targeting scandal, retired from the agency Monday morning after an internal investigation found she was guilty of “neglect of duties” and was going to call for her ouster, according to congressional staff.

And why did the interim IRS commissioner get fired?

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