IRS’ Affordable Care Act Office: Take a Wild Guess on the Official in Charge? Hint: Mad Hatter Tea Party.

"The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation.

Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today.


Her successor, Joseph Grant, is taking the fall for misdeeds at the scandal-plagued unit between 2010 and 2012. During at least part of that time, Grant served as deputy commissioner of the tax-exempt unit.

Grant announced today that he would retire June 3, despite being appointed as commissioner of the tax-exempt office May 8, a week ago.” - IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office, John Parkinson, ABC News, 05/16/2013


Link to the entire ABC article appears below:


http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/irs-official-in-charge-during-tea-party-targeting-now-runs-health-care-office/

Dr. Debt Ceiling: -or- how I stopped worrying and learned to understand the Tea Party

Kabuki-debt-ceiling-theater aside, Democrats and Republicans have long ago drawn their swords from the sheath regarding limited government vs. state, spending vs. tax, etc.. Each side betting no one will cross swords. Meanwhile each side compromising their way to spending the country into oblivion.

Then came along the Tea Party that bellied up to the bar and called the bet. Oh yes! The Tea Party decided to cross swords with the both of them! Now its “on”.

It is High Tea Time at Schumer’s Extreme Tea and Flea Room

“Ya better say yer prayers ya flea-bitten varmint! I'm a-gonna blow ya to smithereenies!”
- Yosemite Sam

‘Schumer, who has been criticizing Republicans all day, said in a floor speech Friday
that conservatives were the flea controlling the dog, which he said in this
case is a federal government that could shut down at midnight.



“What we have here is a flea, wagging a tail, wagging a dog,” said Schumer, chairman of
the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.

“The flea are the minority of House Republicans who are hard right, the tail is the House
Republican caucus, and the dog is the government,” Schumer explained. “That
flea is influencing what the dog does ... and it is sad.”

Schumer for more than a week has been arguing that Tea Party conservatives will be to blame
if there is a shutdown.

“When either party goes to the extreme they don’t do the right thing,” said Schumer.
“My experience is they lose politically, but much more importantly they do what
is wrong for the country substantively." ‘(1)

‘Sen. Chuck Schumer can't spin his way out of this gaffe.

The media-hungry liberal leader yesterday accidentally revealed the inner workings of the Democratic Party's "extreme" p.r. machine -- hurting budget negotiations as both parties brace for an April 8 government shutdown.’ (2)

Summary

Apparently when a flea drinks enough tea the yield is an extreme tea flea.

Notes:

(1)    http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/154963-schumer-likens-house-conservatives-to-a-flea


(2)    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/knucklehead_chuck_CZpf1dHEUAC2e1r008Qy3J