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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNBC News analysis: IRS scandal is huge gift to GOP — and it won't die soon
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/13/18228639-first-thoughts-the-white-houses-terrible-horrible-friday-spills-over?liteIt amazes me how Republicans can take something like this and leverage so much rage out of it that it begins to affect the thinking of people even outside their base.
But, when the FBI plants spies in groups of nuns and little old ladies protesting war and torture - while NOT doing the same for the growing numbers of white supremacist groups - this doesn't seem to hold as much attention.
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)normal people HATE teabagers, the only people who will be enraged are the assholes who hate us in the first place, and they are a minority.
DON'T be surprised if it' found out down the road this was engineered by GOP patsies in the IRS, don't be surprised.
cali
(114,904 posts)they don't spend any time thinking about them.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"NBC News analysis: IRS scandal is huge gift to GOP and it won't die soon"
..."I'm going to do my part": http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022836611
GoCubsGo
(32,081 posts)Schmucky is known for carrying the GOP's water. Why should this time be any different?
Cha
(297,196 posts)"Obama is Swiftboating romney with Bane"
Guaranteed it's bullshit.
cilla4progress
(24,728 posts)manufacture their OWN faux outrage on a random issue.
Next shiny object, UR UP!
0rganism
(23,945 posts)except as a distraction from IRS! and BENGAZI!
they have their marching orders.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)please post it. Can't find that BASIC info.
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)pipoman
(16,038 posts)under IRS rules?
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)former9thward
(32,002 posts)As is Organizing for America the former Obama for America group.
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)pipoman
(16,038 posts)I assume the Democratic party is somehow exempt?
deminks
(11,014 posts)spanone
(135,831 posts)non-stop
meow2u3
(24,761 posts)He's a GOP shill and we all know it. Of course, he'll spin the IRS scandal as a repuke gain instead of the tempest in a teabag it really is.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)secret subpoena story. I doubt that they will be able to trace the decision to do this to anyone remotely connected to the White House - but it certainly will make restraining any future abuses of political finance laws by right-wing groups very difficult to investigate.
Cha
(297,196 posts)CJ Werleman @rationalists
Bam!
Cha
(297,196 posts)me that, chuck?
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rubio-calls-on-irs-commissioner-to-resign?ref=fpblg
caraher
(6,278 posts)You know how it is - anything that happens while Obama is president is his fault.
I think the IRS thing will certainly make the anti-gubmint crazies just that much more crazy ("See, he really WAS out to get us!"
Cha
(297,196 posts)Social Media is to keep on keeping on with those Pesky FACTS.
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)bipartisanship is as stupid as stabbing yourself in the crotch.
This is also part of the reason you prosecute fucking criminals, less of them to stomp you in the grill later.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)applegrove
(118,642 posts)around the country because Occupy does civil disobedience doesn't put it in perspective? With all sorts of right wing political money going to tea party type charity groups, who are not allowed to talk about candidates in ads by IRS law? They don't think there should be different law enforcement for the actual issues of different groups? Really?
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)all sorts of groups were targeted by the Bush administration
Anansi1171
(793 posts)We will try to out-do republicans in bringing down our own party.
gulliver
(13,180 posts)The people who are anti-Obama aren't going to be made more anti-Obama over this. They already have their volume controls on 11.
And a resurgence of publicity and political activity in the Tea Party groups is probably actually good for Dems. At this point, anything that is good for Sarah Palin helps Dems.