POLL: Would the President have come down as hard on the IRS

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if instead of Tea Baggers they had been shown to have targeted liberal groups?

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[Tx4obama]

1. There were some liberal groups investigated. The media just isn't talking about those. n/t

[WorseBeforeBetter]

8. Did Obama mention them during his 6 pm press conference?

I hope so. I missed it thanks to a phone call I needed to take.

[gateley]

2. Yes. I believe him when he said he feels it's unacceptable to target EITHER party.

[MrSlayer]

3. I doubt it would have even been mentioned by him.

Let alone be a "scandal" or discussed in the media at all.

[The Link]

4. Shit no.

[Matariki]

5. Would liberal groups have held his feet to the fire - or given him a pass?

[Politicalboi]

6. I think this whole thing is a GOP ploy

They did this to the Teabaggers to make Obama look bad. Even the GOP doesn't want the Teabaggers. The head guy at the time was a Bush appointee. I hope Obama takes heed if they find a few whistle-blowers without throwing them in jail.

[W_HAMILTON]

7. Hah.

If that had happened, you'd be lucky to get a one-line blurb on that 5:30am morning show with Willie Geist. The next you'd hear of it would be at the White House Correspondents' Dinner after the president made a joke about how liberals whine too much.

[trof]

9. Small beer compared to Nixon's 'enemys list'.

Anybody remember that?

[GoCubsGo]

10. There would be no need for him to do so.

Had they been liberal groups, we would not even be hearing about this. Nobody would be foaming at the mouth, trying to pin a scandal on him if they were liberal groups. And, the corporate-owned media sure as hell would not give enough of a shit about it to report on it. They only care when things affect their own in a negative way. Nobody would hear about it, and it never would have even reached the president's ears for him to know to come down on anyone.

[LeftInTX]

12. +++++

[forestpath]

11. Not just no - HELL NO.

[Douglas Carpenter]

13. I'll put it this way - groups that are anywhere near as far to the left as the Tea Party groups are

to the right - and leftwing groups who use inflammatory language anywhere nears as inflammatory as the Tea Party will be scrutinized by a lot more than the IRS. And they will not have to wait to they apply for special tax status as social-welfare charities to discover that they are being scrutinized.

Having said that the President did the right thing. The right-wing holds the advantage of having the public's low expectations when comes to matters of public trust.

[DonViejo]

14. Low information OP and poll...

IRS Sent Same Letter to Democrats That Fed Tea Party Row

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251306026

[Egalitarian Thug]

15. Ha ha, you're kidding, right? Promotions and appointed positions all around. n/t