How come noone is talking about the IRS/NAACP thing?

[mandyky]

For folks who don't know the NAACP might get it's tax exempt status yanked because of a speech made by Julian Bond earlier this year in Philly at the convention that shrub ducked.

bushies are claiming the IRS did this all on their own. Yeah right. shrub is acting more like Nixon every minute!

[jdj]

1. I think it is because we are two days away from a presidential election.

and repukes pull this shit all the time. I don't see why they just don't fine them, they didn't do any worse than any of the churches living off the fat of this dying democracy.

[mandyky]

2. That was my thought

If they do that to the NAACP, then why is shrub trying to get contact lists from churches etc. Pat Robertson and Jerry Fatmouth are church heads, who I assume are tax exempt, and they make partisan comments all the time, remember during the impeachment of Clinton?

[MUSTANG_2004]

3. Because it's not "new" news?

Presidents have been using the IRS has a political tool for decades. FDR (Lindberg), Kennedy (The John Birch Society) and Nixon (everyone?) all used IRS audits on political enemies.

[porphyrian]

4. What about fundie/evangelical churches?

Isn't it way past time to yank their exempt status?

[LisaLynne]

5. I'm really bothered by that.

I think it's very telling. Yeah, make trouble for the NAACP. And like others have noted, what about the Fundie churches? Oh, wait ... those are full of white people, voting mostly Repug. Hmm. Sickening. The Republicans like to say that the Dems are always trying to start a class war and I say the Republicans have already started it -- a class AND race war! Grrr.