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But when it turns out that president obama was not richard nixon, they were left to figure it out. today we learned how the scandal was not a plot by the obama administration to bankrupt the enemies and target the tea party. how workers were also asked to be on the lookouts for progressive groups, just as they were conservative groups. just proof that it is a one-sided deal. the evidence before that showed being singled out for scrutiny by the irs was not really a political thing at all. on top of all that, we again have anymore documentation that the irs scandal has been disproven. more exone...

Now, immigration reform. five seconds after the 2012 election results were announced, even lots of republicans and conservative pundits agreed that there was really no excuse to keep not fixing our stupid and broken immigration system which has been stupid and broken for decades. it has been stupid and broken for so long because of congress' inability to get it fixed. the previous republican president could not even get his own party in congress to tgo along with his effort to fix the system, but in 2012, after losing the presidency to a democratic president, who went from 67% of the latino vo...

That has been a tough slog already. of course the big kahuna, everybody is waiting to see how it turns out, say it with me now, immigration reform. five seconds after the 2012 election results were announced, even lots of republicans and conservative pundits agreed that there was really no excuse to keep not fixing our stupid and broken immigration system which has been stupid and broken for decades. it has been stupid and broken for so long because of congress' inability to get it fixed. the previous republican president could not even get his own party in congress to go along with his effort...

Organization that works with democratic state legislators across the country. >> democratic legislative campaign committee. now i have to set a new google alert. michael sergeant, president of american values first. thank withdryou for helping us understand your efforts tonight. >> thank you so much, rachel. >> we have been reporting on this story for as long as this show's been on the air, we've been reporting on voter suppression and protecting the right to vote. and every time you get sort of national-level democrats to talk about it, they tell you how bad the problem is and they tell you h...

Found that they focused on three news outlets that cover a lot of national political news, and from which many other news organizations often take their cues. so near the beginning of the irs scandal there was a huge spike in interest in coverage, politico.com, running an amazing six stories during their second week. the washington post, 16 stories that week, the new york times, nine stories that week. but as the facts came out from the stories and emerged it became clearer and clearer that the scandal was not all that scandalous. it petered out. stayed petered out. which meant that the news s...