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In reply to the discussion: IRS stalled conservative groups, but gave speedy approval to Obama foundation [View all]John2
(2,730 posts)understand this mess more and more now with what I'm learning. The IRS got their instructions to scrutinize the Tea party groups from Congress not the White house and the Press knows it. The Whitehouse is being played.
Democratic Senators that pushed this scrutiny are the ones that need to speak up and there are seven of them and the Washington Post reported the story when it happened. It had nothing to do with the Whitehouse. Republican senators and tea party people fought back at the time also, so in actuality, they also know where it came from. So you got pundits like Chris Matthews calling for people to get fired and putting blame on the Whitehouse when it was actually Congress made these Republican groups the issue by threatening the IRS with a written letter from them. That is how much power Congress has.
It was not wrong what Congress did because they are given the power to Legislate. These Senators threatened the IRS if they didn't scrutinize these groups more breaking the law, they were going to legislate a Bill to make the IRS do their jobs and scrutinize groups pretending they were social welfare organizations instead of political activists groups. These senators that initiated this need to stop their silence and put this issue to rest where the scrutiny came from. I think Chris Matthews and other media pundits are way outta line, when they are targeting the President and the Whitehouse on this issue instead of the real culprits in Congress.