This is all so silly.
http://www.irehr.org/issue-areas/tea-pa ... rs-scandalhttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/1 ... C-4-Status[quote=]Some of the flagged groups did have their tax-exempt status delayed or did face some additional scrutiny, but not a single group has been denied tax-exempt status.
-Snip-In fact,
the only known 501(c)(4) applicant to recently have its status denied happens to be a progressive group: the Maine chapter of Emerge America, which
trains Democratic women to run for office. Although the group did no electoral work, and didn’t participate in independent expenditure campaign activity either, its partisan nature disqualified it from being categorized as working for the “common good.”[/quote]
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.co ... &seid=autoIt’s almost like the IRS audits low-income Americans far more than the wealthy because there are far more low-income Americans to audit, and they are much more likely to receive a refund from the government, and that these low-income Americans are primarily Obama voters. It’s also almost like Peggy Noonan found a couple people who had been audited and concluded, without any evidence whatsoever, that they had been deliberately targeted because of their political views, and that she then dismissed every other possible explanation for the audits.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022854933Now that you have seen what those words say, let's think about what they do not say. Lerner says that they searched out terms like "Tea Party" and "Patriots", but she never says those are the only terms they searched for. They may have also been searching on terms like "Democratic" and "Progressive", we don't know because the IRS has yet to provide us a complete list of all the search terms that may have been used. Lerner never mentions anything at all about how left-leaning groups may have been handled by the IRS, but she was asked about it by a reporter. Here is what she said...
"I don't have any information on that."
I have very little doubt that after Nixon and GW, no one in their right mind would try the same stupidity again. They know it'll come out. And they know that the American right wing jump on anything like this and latch on like a pitbull snatching a deep fried turkey.
I don't really like Obama personally. I used to, but he really hasn't lived up to expectations (domestic or international) and has basically become GW v2 in my opinion. There are a few bits and bobs that he's done which I agree with, but mostly he's not had the balls to stand up to the filibustering threats and pandered to the Republican party just to manage to get things to run albeit not very smoothly as the sequester proves.
But the idea that he is somehow behind this like some nefarious ghoul is just hilarious. The one thing you cannot say about him is that he's not intelligent and doing anything like this - even with plausible deniability - would be moronic.
