With Washington gripped by a trio of exploding scandals this week –
from Benghazi to government spying on news outlets to thug tactics by
the Internal Revenue Service – Senate Democrats seem to be hoping that
if they just yell loud enough then voters will overlook a key role they
played in at least one of them.
They quickly sensed the political toxicity associated with
Friday's admission by the IRS that they selectively targeted
conservative organizations for special government scrutiny, and so
Democrats didn't waste any time springing into action. Senate Finance
Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana, for example, vowed congressional hearings and called the IRS actions "an outrageous abuse of power and a breach of the public's trust."
He was joined by a chorus of other Democrats including Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire who called it "completely unacceptable," Kay Hagan of North Carolina who called it "disturbing and troubling," and Mark Pryor of Arkansas who tweeted that he's "working to get to bottom of this so we can fire those responsible & ensure this never happens again."
Fortunately, voters won't need to look very far.The willful
ignorance and revisionist history demonstrated by Senate Democrats on
this issue has been breathtaking, even by Washington standards.
Over the last three years, Democratic senators repeatedly and
publicly pressured the IRS to engage in the very activities that they
are only now condemning today. At the same time, Republicans repeatedly
and publicly warned against this abuse of government power and
pointed to a series of red flags that strongly suggested conservative
political organizations were being targeted by the IRS.
Those warnings
were deliberately ignored by the Obama administration and Democratic
leaders in Congress. (Much More...)
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