Senate Democrats Started the Witch Hunt & Obama Allowed It To Continue (Congress, lobby)

[brentwoodgirl]

MSN has a scathing new article about Senate Democrats. The Dems who are running around in faux outrage today are the same ones who pushed the IRS to start the witch hunt:

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.

The article calls out multiple Democratic Senators by name. They show the hypocrisy of their calls for the IRS to crack down on the conservative groups, and now their public comments about how upset they are that this happened.

So lost amid the hubbub surrounding the news that the IRS engaged in McCarthyite tactics to target specific political groups, and their subsequent apology for those tactics, has been the fact that the lobbying campaign from Senate Democrats actually worked.

The article ends with this fabulous slam:

When these Senate Finance Committee hearings come to pass it would be a remarkable act of bravery and candor for one of these IRS bureaucrats to appropriately ask Max Baucus and others why they're not sitting at the witness tables next to them, instead of continuing in their charade of faux outrage.

Much more here: Senate Democrats Pushed for IRS Tea Party Snooping Before Criticizing It - Brian Walsh (usnews.com)