As Jeffrey Toobin pointed out in The New Yorker here (and as I noted last night), the Citizens United ruling unleashed a flood of primarily conservative “social welfare” groups applying to the IRS for 501(c)(4) status. What the IRS did was admittedly ham-handed, but the agency was trying to screen these groups to find out what they were really up to.
In the meantime, let’s recall that I heard not a word of Republican complaint when the Bushco IRS targeted the NAACP and Julian Bond for their opposition to Dubya’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iraq, as Martin Bashir and his guests remind us in the clip.
Welcome to our world, wingnuts (Update 5/16/13: And all I can say in response to this is, well, duuuh!)…
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Update 5/16/13: Oh, and here are more folks targeted by the IRS who the Repugs, Fix Noise and the "axis of stoo-pid" don't care about.
Update 5/21/13: Oh, and did you know that Dems were also targeted in the IRS sweep that caught up the Teahadists? Didn't think so (here).
…and I know I’m a little late with this (and welcome, Steve Kornacki, taking over for Chris Hayes on “Up”), but this tells us, among other things, how the Repugs (in addition to totally alienating “undocumented” workers) have also thoroughly put off an entire demographic of young women voters; they have no one but themselves to blame (sorry it's a little late and I don’t know what that story is that Kornacki refers to at the end – “child care costs more than college in most states” is pretty mind-blowing)…
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…and yeah, I think “Deadeye Dick” Cheney criticizing ANYONE on foreign policy means that we are now officially “down the rabbit hole”…
…and these guys just keep cranking out great stuff like this.
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