Obama Has 'No Patience' for IRS' Targeting Conservatives

[Douglas Carpenter]

PHOTO: President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)

By ABBY D. PHILLIP (@abbydphillip)

May 13, 2013

President Obama said today he has "no patience" for reports that the Internal Revenue Service singled out conservative groups for additional scrutiny, promising accountability if allegations of political motivations at the agency turn out to be true.

"So we'll wait and see what exactly all the details and the facts are," Obama said at a news conference. "But I've got no patience with it. I will not tolerate it. And we'll make sure that we find out exactly what happened on this."

But trouble appears to be brewing for the Obama administration as allegations emerge that the IRS engaged in wide-spread targeting of conservative groups for several years, in many cases delaying the groups' applications for tax-exempt status.

"People have to be confident that they are ... applying the laws in a nonpartisan way," Obama said today.

Click here to watch President Obama condemn the 'outrageous' controversy at the IRS.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/president-obama-irs-targeting-conservative-tea-party-groups-19169511




http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama-patience-irs-targeting-conservatives/story?id=19168977#.UZIwNDpApdg

[blm]

1. Citizens United is the culprit - it released a flood of these start-up 'issue' groups

who began applying for tax exempt status within the same time frame.

[KharmaTrain]

2. "Do You Beat Your Wife?"...

...that's how the corporate media presented the question to the President. Of course he's going to say he's against the targeting of political opponents by using the IRS. That's the spin that was being presented since this "scandal" broke and I would assume this President is politically smart enough to know not to go Nixon.

That said...there is a legitimate question about the tax status of the teabagger groups. The reason for the investigation is the foggy connections between political operatives, corporations and other donors...moving vast amounts of money that is unreported and accounted for. The question is the abuse of tax laws and the right wing framing of this "scandal" is an attempt to deflect the attention from their vast "political welfare" system...

[GeorgeGist]

3. Isn't he the same guy who bragged about getting his facts straight ...

before shooting off his mouth?