The IRS scandal has the potential to be very serious for President Obama. Although the main stream media has ignored this story, it is not going to go away. Here is what we already know that is being ignored by the main stream media.
We know exactly who ordered the IRS to target conservatives. They did it publicly. This is well documented. President Obama rebuked the Supreme Court with regard to the Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission during a State of the Union Speech. Obama was outraged that corporations were allowed to spend money expressing a political opinion.
Then top Democrats like Senator Max Baucus, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said that the IRS should target conservative groups:
Several other top Democratic Senators joined in the chorus. There is no mystery as to how this happened; it is all on the public record.
When the story first broke about the IRS targeting the Tea Party top Senate Democrats professed outrage, until they realized that the IRS was doing exactly what they wanted. Now those top Democrats are strangely silent. The main stream media apparently thinks this story doesn’t matter unless we find an e-mail where President Obama personally ordered Lois Lerner to do the dirty deed.
The real story at the hearing in Washington was the staged event by Elijah Cummings specifically designed to distract Chairman Issa from pursuing this story. The same clowns who consistently launch false accusations of racism against the Tea Party are now pulling the race card on Darrell Issa. It is ridiculous.
It is important to understand that this is an act of desperation. They are desperately trying to distract people from this story because this story really matters. I don’t believe it will work, but Darrell Issa really needs to up his game. Now we learned that the DOJ interviewed Lois Lerner and she willingly talked to them.
Republicans now have a clear cut case for demanding a select committee and a special prosecutor. Even in the DOJ did everything right, there is a clear conflict of interest that justifies turning over the investigation to an independent party. But Republicans need a more skilled spokesperson than Darrell Issa. He has been unable to shed the label of Political hack. I would suggest Trey Gowdy, because he is a skilled prosecutor and he is far more capable of laying out a compelling legal argument that would be difficult for anyone to ignore.
This will happen, at some point. The question is how long will Republicans ignore the obvious and continue to be dominated by a slow Lerner?
TDM