{"id":2276,"date":"2013-05-19T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/05\/19\/a-welcome-unintended-consequence-of-irs\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:22:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:22:01","slug":"a-welcome-unintended-consequence-of-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2276","title":{"rendered":"A Welcome Unintended Consequence Of The IRS Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13546,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtontimes.com\\\/news\\\/2013\\\/may\\\/17\\\/collateral-damage-heck-no-irs-mess-doesnt-help-us-&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231120040706\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.washingtontimes.com\\\/news\\\/2013\\\/may\\\/17\\\/collateral-damage-heck-no-irs-mess-doesnt-help-us-\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 19:49:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 18:03:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 18:03:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13547,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.archives.gov\\\/federal-register\\\/constitution\\\/article-v.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nThe scandal involving the IRS targeting tea party groups and auditing certain conservatives is having a welcome unintended consequence. Not only does it have the White House playing damage control but it may have put a hold on further attempts to reintroduce the Manchin-Toomey background checks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/may\/17\/collateral-damage-heck-no-irs-mess-doesnt-help-us-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) himself<\/a> on a West Virginia radio show, it isn&#8217;t helping.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Isn\u2019t it more understandable, asked host Hoppy Kercheval, that people who fear more government intrusion or influence would now have some of those fears stoked after the revelations in the past week?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely &#8211; I agree 1,000 percent,\u201d Mr. Manchin said on MetroNews\u2019 \u201cTalkline.\u201d \u201cPeople are saying, \u2018Joe, we read your legislation, it makes all the sense in the world and we\u2019re for that legislation &#8211; we\u2019re just afraid government won\u2019t stop there.\u2019\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess we should be thanking those faceless Obama ideologues in the IRS for being so overtly and over the top political in their actions.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin goes on to say that the Second Amendment can only be changed by the legislative branch of the government. Perhaps someone needs to send Manchin a copy of the United States Constitution. The amendment process involves both Congress AND ratification by three-fourths of the states. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/federal-register\/constitution\/article-v.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article V of the Constitution<\/a> also say the states themselves could call for a constitutional convention.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scandal involving the IRS targeting tea party groups and auditing certain conservatives is having a welcome unintended consequence.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[255,1860,701],"class_list":["post-2276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-irs","tag-manchin-toomey","tag-sen-joe-manchin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9157,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions\/9157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}