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librechik

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14. damn right! They need to be audited, just like AARP got audited.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Tue May 14, 2013, 03:07 PM

May 2013

Organizations with a political side ought to expect to get audited and should be told to shut ip if they complain. I learned this during the Bush administration, so it must be true.

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Does anyone think the President's mea culpa on the IRS thing was a little too hasty? [View all] Tommy_Carcetti May 2013 OP

Everything was on a "if so" basis. Life Long Dem May 2013 #1

True. kentuck May 2013 #12

Maybe but I think he felt with the huge storm of everything hitting the fan right now, he needed to EV_Ares May 2013 #2

True. Ultimately, the only one he really needs to be concerned about is the AP story. Tommy_Carcetti May 2013 #4

Correction: The media is the republicons madokie May 2013 #16

Yes & if it wasn't true it sure as hell is today, couldn't believe Chuck Todd in that Jay Carney EV_Ares May 2013 #17

Chuck for some reason thinks he's cool madokie May 2013 #18

Same here but I have not watched Morning Joe or Todd for some time, he is one of those EV_Ares May 2013 #19

Yup, two peas in a pod right there madokie May 2013 #20

I thought so, too. randome May 2013 #3

That's what he always does when given the chance to throw his own people to the wolves. MotherPetrie May 2013 #5

This wasn't a "mea culpa" since he had nothing to do with it nt geek tragedy May 2013 #6

It sure sounded like it to NPR listeners. lumberjack_jeff May 2013 #21

Yes, much too hasty IMO. n/t ljm2002 May 2013 #7

Yes, I do... but I'm not sure if it was strategy or a case of jumping the gun. apples and oranges May 2013 #8

As per previous posters, he said "if". That's a conditional statement CJCRANE May 2013 #9

I think the President should have avoided the words "targeting" and "practices" in his remarks. John1956PA May 2013 #10

they are sounding different today Enrique May 2013 #11

N-dimensonal Jujitsu MNBrewer May 2013 #13

damn right! They need to be audited, just like AARP got audited. librechik May 2013 #14

"Congress did a knee-jerk defunding of it" = not so. There was a pre-existing majority to defund, HiPointDem May 2013 #15