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Tie it in to the white house. not at this point. watch tomorrow well, what he has said to me today is make sure we watch tomorrow s hearing because he is going to present the evidence to prove it. all right fop prove what. that they can get it right all the way up into the white house before it was all revealed. really. for months one of the most generally outraged members of congress and also the chair of the house oversight committee darrel issa insisted it was a politically motivated operation. he even suggests it went to the highest ranks of the u.s. government. this was the targeting of the president s political enemies effectively and lies about it during the election year so that it wasn t discovered until afterwards. for years the president bashed the tea party groups. he was very public against these groups and on his behalf, perhaps not on his request on his behalf the irs executd a delaying tactic against the very groups that he talk about. ....
Year-olds who think the way that the tea party not. 35 year-olds are ecumenical, inclusive people who are going to build a different kind of america than the republican party represents. so this is all fine and good for the republican base. it is exactly what their problem is and the smart people in the republican party understand that they can t have darrel issa and mitch mcconnell as their spokesmen if they want to succeed. i still think there needs to be an investigation of the irs. i don t understand why okay, you can make this into a republican issue or make it into the issue that darrel issa is a buffoon. i still think for most american people, 35, otherwise, care about if the irs has got their act together. i don t think it is a terrible thing just to get to the actual facts of this. i agree. i think that s right. i think part of the problem is every time we get some version of get somebody except darrel issa. the trouble is ken starr was the last independent couns ....
Progressive or a take partier, neither of which i am, i would feel better if we had an investigation. this is the arm of the government that takes our money all of it, pretty much lately. and they re getting ready to have more power when the health care law kicks in. i think it is crazy to say darrel issa is an idiot, we don t care about this, there s no there there. let s prove there s no there there. how about that idea? we have the fast and furious, benghazi, this. he is a proven entity as far as scandals. let s take him out of the equation. we are really talking about the irs. but when you do look at the facts, it looks like tea party groups numbers wise came under more scrutiny. you look at the spent election spending by social welfare groups which includes 501c3s and 4s. 81% of that money came from conservative groups. that s where the action is. ....
when issa was leaving the hearing yesterday he appeared to be looking for something. quite possibly the scandal itself. melissa, we pose the meta question. is there a there there here. and it seems to me that there s not a lot of there there. as you were speaking you said the fact that they were both tea party groups and progressive groups means that some of the president s friends were targeted. i thought yeah, but those hoe progressive groups that could be out to get the president more than the tea party. this was a ready made kind of scandal in that people dislike the irs. if you have a story about the irs doing something bad, being directed to do something bad by the white house, people aren t going to really like that. it will be less the retraction ....
Of it or the saying there s no there there will never penetrate as far as the initial scandal belief. that would be durable even going into the next election. so in that sense they may have scored one here. but i think in terms of our actual concern as american citizens about whether or not the irs is actually doing something that s politically motivated, which we should all care about, even on the left, i do believe there is very little evidence that that seems to be going on. i think the question is obscured by did obama direct this. nobody thinks actually db maybe darrel issa does, but nobody thinks obama s sitting around like nixon and gone mitchell drinking scotch at 3:00 in the morning, say going get those guys, i hate them! that isn t happening. i myself think i would like a real calm investigation of this. not all this obfuscation. those same people who said no, obama did not direct us to do this did say in other parts of their testimony they were told to report to washingt ....