NBC News analysis: IRS scandal is huge gift to GOP — and it won't die soon

[SpankMe]

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/13/18228639-first-thoughts-the-white-houses-terrible-horrible-friday-spills-over?lite

It 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]

1. Bullshit

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]

8. I'd wager that most people don't hate the tea party- or love them

they don't spend any time thinking about them.

[ProSense]

2. Chuck Todd,

"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]

10. Yep. Beat me to it.

Schmucky is known for carrying the GOP's water. Why should this time be any different?

[Cha]

16. Oh Cluck Toad.. really. Of the..

"Obama is Swiftboating romney with Bane"

Guaranteed it's bullshit.

[cilla4progress]

3. I've figured out what Obama and his administration need to do..

manufacture their OWN faux outrage on a random issue.

Next shiny object, UR UP!

[0rganism]

24. the press won't cover it

except as a distraction from IRS! and BENGAZI!
they have their marching orders.

[KittyWampus]

4. If anyone finds out how many teabag groups were investigated and how many were in violation>

please post it. Can't find that BASIC info.

[mountain grammy]

5. and why would the teabag party be tax exempt? Still can't figure that out!

[pipoman]

7. Because they qualify for exemption

under IRS rules?

[mountain grammy]

9. So political parties qualify for tax exempt?

[former9thward]

11. Yes, 501(c)4s

As is Organizing for America the former Obama for America group.

[mountain grammy]

14. Thanks for that information. I'm checking into this.

[pipoman]

25. I guess I don't know..

I assume the Democratic party is somehow exempt?

[deminks]

6. No, it's a huge gift to NBC Newz. Somebody might watch 'em.

[spanone]

12. chris matthews, chuckie toad, they've been all over this all day....ah, and benghazi too

non-stop

[meow2u3]

13. Consider the source: Chuck Toad

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]

15. it certainly does not help - especially coming on the tail of the Benghazi scandal and the AP

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]

17. As this Tweet so righteously states..

CJ Werleman @rationalists

I don't get why the IRS targeted the Tea Party. I mean I don't get why it wasn't the Department of Homeland Security

Bam!

[Cha]

18. How can it be a "huge gift" to the gop? When a Bush appointee was the Commissioner? Riddle

me that, chuck?

Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman, who was appointed by President Bush in 2008 and held by President Obama, left the agency in Nov. 9, 2012. Any pre-election misconduct would have had to occur on his watch. The current acting commissioner is Steven T. Miller -- a permanent replacement has not been nominated.[/div]

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rubio-calls-on-irs-commissioner-to-resign?ref=fpblg

[caraher]

19. Because the facts don't matter?

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!&quot

[Cha]

21. Yeah, you got that right, caraher. Our job as part of the

Social Media is to keep on keeping on with those Pesky FACTS.

[TheKentuckian]

22. Which is why you clean fucking house. It is bad enough being stuck with the lower level operatives

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]

20. NBC: IRS scandal is huge gift to GOP — and [we won't let it] die soon

[applegrove]

23. And the fact that the police have all sorts of undercover people signing up with Occupy groups

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]

26. Bush spied on little old ladies

all sorts of groups were targeted by the Bush administration

[Anansi1171]

27. Because as Democrats we're masochists, evidentially.

We will try to out-do republicans in bringing down our own party.

[gulliver]

28. I'm not sure it helps the GOP at all.

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.