I think the IRS has uncovered something BIG

[Rosa Luxemburg]

and the GOP is putting a lot of pressure on the Obama administration to cover it up.

Why else would the IRS delve into the shady dealings of the TeaParty and their sponsors?

[elehhhhna]

1. They didn't look at Rove's fake charity.

Or did they?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. I personally believe that they are trumping this up so as to defang the IRS in time for 2014

Republicans have no information in fixing the laws governing these kind of organizations or making sure IRS offices are appropriately staffed so that they can better handle the workload. I don't believe that there was any malevolence in what they were doing, just doing the right thing the wrong way IMHO.

[Triana]

4. Yep. Teabaggers see a lot of advantage in castrating the IRS

in the public eye before 2014.

[bemildred]

5. Yep, this is intended to deter future investigations. nt

[robinlynne]

7. and taxes?

[bemildred]

8. I think the "secret donor" part is what is attractive, the tax deduction is a fringe benefit. nt

[robinlynne]

16. what I meant was, the right is anti-taxes. always. Messing with the IRS is similar to

messing with public schools. All of the good things our government does, which they dislike....

[bemildred]

18. Could be some knee-jerk anti-tax sentiment involved too.

But I think that is not the most important thing with the IRS.

And they hate the public schools for much deeper reasons than mere money. Good public schools are a threat to their control of the government, and private schools are a profit center based on public money (always good), and they hate all successful government programs because that undercuts their anti-government rhetoric, and they love their anti-government thetoric because if the public loves its government, that is a threat to their control as well. They have to let us vote or lose what little legitimacy and credibility they have left, and as we have demonstrated, when we are engaged and we vote, they will lose.

So, to summarize, what I am saying is that THEIR control of the government (our government) depends on keeping us disaffected from it, and distracted, and divided, and that requires that we see the government as "not working" and we be poor and overworked. So, look around, what do you see?

"They" is this case is our well-off ruling elites.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. Defanging, yes

of course they are trying to defang. The dirty laundry has been quickly hidden.

[davidpdx]

20. That makes sense, they are putting them on the defensive

so when anything questionable comes along the IRS might play it safe and not investigate.

[Triana]

3. I think they didn't...

...ie: Rove, AFP/Koch, et al. They never touched those organizations. And that's the problem, not that they're "targeting" pissy little hicktown teabagger outfits. They need to go after the big money-guns and leave the little penny pistols alone.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. Ahem!

"no smoke without fire"

and pawns in a larger game

[NoMoreWarNow]

10. I don't think it's "big" per se, the IRS was doing their job and clearly many of these

tea party groups were violating the spirit and even letter of the non-profit law.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. they were and more

[Half-Century Man]

12. It's just propaganda

To make this look like a Pearl Harbor type sneak attack by the evil IRS imperial navy's torpedo bombers on the Teabag flotilla resting peacefully dock side on Sunday morning.
The Teabagged are just trying to get public opinion over on their side. And this scenario plays into their confused nationalistic american history fantasy fetish. They're hoping for the best, after all, we used it in part to justify the first, second, and only nuclear responses in history. The IRS under the mushroom cloud is the TEA party victory.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. that too

the Teaparty are hoping for a bonus but this is going to backfire for them

[forestpath]

14. The bigger the GOP crimes...the more likely the

Obama administration is to turn a blind eye to them.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

15. This

maybe too big to chew

[hay rick]

17. The Tea Party lifted up a rock.

Under the rock was a worm (disparate treatment of Tea Party groups) and a rattlesnake (rampant abuse of the tax code to hide political contributions from the wealthy). Sadly, President Obama was one of the first and loudest yelling "look at that freaking worm!"

[Rosa Luxemburg]

19. still not too late

it just takes the will to uncover the 'rattlesnake'