Mitch McConnell Realizes IRS Scandal Is Over

New York Magazine ^ | 6/21/2013 | Jonathan Chait

[Hostage]

Bush’s fault!

The dirty deed was done by a conservative republican and it had nothing to do with Obamala!!!

See I told you so!

/s

[stephenjohnbanker]

I know this guy is scum, but so are some of our own these days. Liars.

[Kansas58]

The liberal media LIKES to divide conservative ranks.
Sometimes Republican office holders deserve our anger with them, and sometimes they do not.
Do not let the media be the Judge, in those instances.

[MichaelCorleone]

“Bugging McConnell's office must have given the Dems some great blackmail ammo.”

I don't buy these excuses anymore. Virtually every Republican who turned on us is given a pass because of some perceived blackmailing or bribe or threat or ‘big money interest’.

This is the job they chose; they took an oath, and if the heat is too much to resist selling America down the river, then they should man up, resign, and be done with it.

Most of us have to live up to what we claim to be or we're history. Why should they be any different?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“This goes right to the White House.”

Nah! It was two old blue-haired, very pink-cheeked old ladies in Cincy who were the rouge agents.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Obama needs to be impeached, imprisoned and shamed for eternity. A lot of his fellow henchmen should go to jail as well.”

Over 450 trips to the White House between 2 IRS guys in 4 years?

Obama is the chief perpetrator in the IRS scandal. Screw the fall guys!

[Carry_Okie]

They were going to follow the facts. But all of the facts point in the same direction, which is that the Obama administration had nothing to do with it at all. That was the conclusion of the agency’s inspector-general report, as well as the House Oversight Committee’s own interviews, which the Republican majority tried to suppress and which (when the Democrats released them) showed the operation was an independent, well-intentioned effort to enforce the law led by an IRS official who happens to be a conservative Republican.

There are enough lies and spin in there to make the author a smoothie.

[STJPII]

Most depressing news since the last election. The Republicans deserve to be slaughtered in elections.

[upchuck]

I’d appreciate being linked to another article.

Check this out from the WaPo. Much more reasonable.

[nickcarraway]

Why don’t they be honest: They don’t think targeting someone for having the wrong beliefs is wrong. If they actually came out and said this, they’d probably get away with it.

[eddie willers]

Snowden succeeded in his misdirection.

[Phillyred]

these GOP ‘leaders’ are just the worst scum. At least we know what the democrats stand for. If this was Bush we’d already be in the post-Bush phase!!!!!!!!!!!

[Old Yeller]

That does it. I’m changing my voter registration to Independent. At least I might not get turned down if I need medical care.

[American in Israel]

Hey, first you are offended that Obama is letting his illegal immigrant family starve, then you are pissed because Obama steals Fifty Million dollars to help out his bro. You Republicans are all the same...

/s

[metafugitive]

The belligerent and borderline-paranoid tone of McConnell’s speech today is a kind of covered retreat, signaling the IRS scandal’s turn into a vague trope that conservatives use with other members of the tribe, the way liberals liked to say “Halliburton” during the Bush years, to signal some dark beliefs they don’t need to back up.

What blather!

If he is calling conservatives a primitive tribe, I say thank you and take that as a compliment.

But this clown can clearly not identify the tribe members let alone their chiefs.

GOPe leadership buffoons such as McConnell and Boehner do not speak for the primitive tribe of conservatives as the author would call us.

New York Magazine can closely listen to what Mitch had to say and try to interpret it to a broader message.

This conservative tribe member stopped listening to Old Mitch a long time ago let alone try to figure out what he was trying to say.

He is a total sellout and is never to be trusted and I do not need to be listening to him to confirm that.

[exit82]

Two words: Bob Bauer.

[AmericanVictory]

Jimrob, you forgot the sarcasm tag. I would advise everyone to look into the class action in which the lead plaintiff is a man named Sean Gerlich. There is a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in that case on a spoliation issue that arose in it. In that case the plaintiffs are suing for interference with First Amendment and other constitutional rights by officials of the DOJ under George W. Bush who targeted liberals by denying them D.C. interviews disproportionatly as applicants to the DOJ law school grad honors program for grads applying for entry DOJ positions. What is sauce for left wing geese is sauce for the conservative ganders.

[Jim from C-Town]

Isn't there a wealthy Republican Conservative that could primary this worthless POS TOOL?

Totally worthless. We as a representative republic are finished. We have entered into the post republic era of the USA. Bring on the Caesar. OH we have him in O’Bumbler!

[The Wizard]

bama was indeed the source...

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Chait just asserts this in hopes that the assertion will make it so. In the age of the Internet it just could, as people all over the net are saying the scandal is over based solely on Chait’s article. Last month he tried to do the same thing with Benghazi.