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Fri Jun 21, 2013, 01:23 PM Jun 2013

Mitch McConnell Realizes IRS Scandal Is Over

Mitch McConnell delivered a speech today at the American Enterprise Institute to officially signal that the IRS scandal has entered its post-fact phase. When the IRS first revealed that its Cincinnati office had attempted to enforce its nonprofit laws using a search function that disproportionately impacted conservatives, Republicans were certain it must have come from the White House. 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.McConnell’s speech is an attempt to reframe the issue in a way that it can survive the utter absence of incriminating facts. One method he employs is to flip around the burden of proof:



IRS 'scandal,' R.I.P.

It Disrupted, Poorly.

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Mitch McConnell Realizes IRS Scandal Is Over (Original Post) geek tragedy Jun 2013 OP
It has served its purpose, and the R's will continue to use it to rouse their ignorant base. Scuba Jun 2013 #1
They always need to play victim, such tough guys nt geek tragedy Jun 2013 #2
Already did the damage the GOP intended it to do. Support for Obama sinkingfeeling Jun 2013 #3
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