"And here we are. Nothing happened because it is possible that this happened on the up and up and I refuse to get worked up unless they can get a conviction. Anything less means nothing to see here. That was the standard that people like Goat set in the past when they ridiculed anyone who brought up the very real complaints in the past. Did any GOP leaning folks get audited? Even just 1? If so, nothing to see here.
That is the IRS standard they set when Obama's IRS was targeting conservative groups."
Because you are not being consistent. You want us to jump on something you claimed either did not happen or was not important in the past when a Democrat was involved.
You can probably go back to when you and others were ridiculing people over there position on the IRS going after conservative groups under Obama or Hillary campaign and willing accomplices in governments bullshit Russian Collusion nonsense and find posts of me saying that there will be a response to that and to not come crying when it happens...and here you guys are."
You've made at least three, and possibly more posts insisting on repeating a mantra which has largely been debunked except in far right circles. The reality is that while Conservatives have continued to maintain (for political purposes) that the IRS only challenged groups applying for tax-exempt status who had names linked to terms like tea party, the fact is that they targeted left wing groups (using terms like "progressive") as well. That fact came to light in 2017 when a bi-partisan Senate Committee requested an analysis/audit from the Treasury Dept IG who oversees the IRS. This was the fall of 2017, Trump was POTUS and the GOP controlled the Senate...
Of course that correction never made it to Fox News, who like other right wing media continued to utilize the cash cow of political outrage that the "IRS targeted conservatives" claim provided. As so often happens, the follow up to the story which reveals more details and often corrects false claims never get's equal promotion to the original claim. The fact that you keep repeating it even after it's been debunked is evidence of how successful (although not particularly accurate) a claim it's proven to be in right wing circles.
"Now, in the third audit of how the tax-exempt application process went off the rails, the Treasury Department's inspector general overseeing the IRS has found the agency targeted not just conservatives but also scores of groups with words like "progressive" in their names.
The Treasury inspector general for tax administration, or TIGTA, did the report at the request of a bipartisan group of senators.
"The far right has been beating a drum for years now that there was a partisan attack on them," said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., one of the requestors. He said the new report shows "that's just not true."
But the TIGTA audit didn't absolve the IRS. Wyden said the overall picture was "equal opportunity mismanagement and equal opportunity bedlam."
After three years of congressional hearings and three inspector-general audits, the scandal still ricochets around Capitol Hill.
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