C'mon, you didn't really buy that, did you?:
Barack Obama defended the IRS Tuesday in an interview with Daily Show host Jon Stewart, saying the tea party-targeting scandal was actually Congress‘ fault for passing “a crummy law” and that the real problem is the agency doesn’t have enough money….
The president....
Who wouldn't still be president without the IRS scandal.
....said he’s not to blame, using the IRS as an example of how what went wrong wasn’t his fault, and questioning whether tea party groups were ever targeted…
So nothing went wrong, and what didn't go wrong wasn't his fault, but Congress's for "underfunding" the IRS, even though the IRS scandal itself increased the agency's workload and costs. Gotcha.
The IRS‘ internal auditor concluded that the agency did, in fact, target conservative and tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny, and Mr. Obama’s own Justice Department is still conducting a criminal investigation into the targeting.
Just for due diligence purposes, here's how the Wall Street Journal called BS on O's propaganda fictionalizing a year ago:
Obama wants Americans to believe that the targeting resulted from the confusing tax law governing nonprofits, which he says was “difficult” to interpret and resulted in mere “bureaucratic” mistakes. This is also the administration’s justification for issuing new regulations governing 501(c)(4)s that would effectively silence White House opponents this election year. Published in the Federal Register in November, the new rules cite the “lack of a clear and concise” regulation as reason for the rewrite. House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp blew up this fairy tale at Wednesday’s hearing with new IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. Mr. Camp unveiled a June 14th, 2012 email from Treasury career attorney Ruth Madrigal to key IRS officials in the tax-exempt department, including former director Lois Lerner. The email cites a blog post about the political activity of tax-exempt 501(c)(4) groups and reads: “Don’t know who in your organizations [sic] is keeping tabs on c4s, but since we mentioned potentially addressing them (off-plan) in 2013, I’ve got my radar up and this seemed interesting.”
Interesting for sure. The IRS typically puts out a public schedule of coming regulations, and Mr. Camp noted that in this case “off-plan” appears to mean “hidden from the public.” He added that committee interviews with IRS officials have found that the new 2013 rules were in the works as early as 2011, meaning the administration has “fabricated the rationale” for this new regulation. Mr. Camp added that everything his committee has discovered contradicts the White House argument that the IRS scandal was caused by legal “confusion.” The current rules governing 501(c)(4)s have existed, unchanged, since 1959. Prior to 2010 the IRS processed and approved tax-exempt applications in fewer than three months with no apparent befuddlement. The IRS hyper-scrutiny of conservative groups only began in 2010 amid the Obama administration’s larger political attack on political donors like the Koch brothers, and emails show that IRS officials were acutely aware of this political environment. [emphases added]
It was a plotted partisan attack, abusing power and violating the law in order to overthrow a presidential election, and use the rigged results to unlawfully skew the law to conform with their crimes after the fact.
And Barack Obama is so proud of it, he just can't help chortlingly bragging about it at every opportunity, rubbing his enemies' noses in the fact that he's Barack Hussein Obama, he's President-For-Life, he's screwed, raped, and beaten us for good, and there's not a damn thing we can do about it.
And the worst part? He's absolutely right.
And this is how he expects to sell the Republican Congress on jacking up IRS funding? Altogether now: "Yes! It! Is!"
Cue the laughtrack.....
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