Posted on 05/22/2013 5:28:38 PM PDT by drewh
The signs keep accumulating that the IRS scandal is worse than liberals are willing to concede.
On Bill Press's radio show yesterday, a reporter with left-leaning Politico told Press that the Internal Revenue Service dragging its feet on applications for tax-exempt status from tea party groups probably affected the outcome of last year's election. (Video after the jump)
Here's what Politico's Lauren French told Press (audio) --
PRESS: So, Lauren, you've been covering this IRS scandal. How big is it really? How serious is it really, do you think?
FRENCH: I think it's really serious, depending on the groups that were targeted, you could say that this easily influenced the 2012 election. A lot of these groups' applications were delayed to the point that they weren't able to get their tax-exempt status until after the election and depending ...
One can't help but wonder if liberals are secretly ecstatic over what the IRS did, though they would never admit it. The scofflaws at the agency who targeted the tea party did more than make news with this scandal. They may have altered history.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
We'd also have a more conservative House and Senate in Congress if the IRS hadn't existed
Correct me if I’m wrong- isn’t Politico the political dirty-tricks arm of the Washington Post?
It’s a safe bet it at least impacted some senate and house races.
Yes exactly
Ok, re-do the Election this November!!!
If conservatives had come out to vote, like their lives depended on it, we’d also have a more conservative House and Senate, and possibly the Presidency.
My hope in 2014 is that conservatives really do take the possibility of tyranny seriously enough to come out like their lives depend on, because it could very well do so.
Correct me if Im wrong- isnt Politico the political dirty-tricks arm of the Washington Post?
Maybe they sense a new day is dawning in America and it’s lights out for the status quo.
Obama’s IRS prevented tea party groups form existing so they couldn’t get out the vote for conservatives
It appears Obama has outlived his usefulness. The powers behind him may have given up after he failed to get them their gun grab. And solidified opposition.
THAT pushed back the communist advance significantly. Tinfoil? I doubt it. Jarret has to be pooping bricks.
Impeach and Imprison Obama first for getting his IRS to rig the election for him to win. Then have another PRIMARY and election.
I'd have to trust the left to do the right thing more than I do to believe them.
Obama told his minions to ‘punish the enemy’ in 2010.
Obama told his minions to ‘punish the enemy’ in 2010.
I think we’re simmering now and this summer will boil into a STRONG discontent for the administration by the beginning of 2014.
I just hope it doesn’t explode into violence. American’s don’t like being pushed and the DHS “defending” the IRS from peaceful protesters is one strange scene we never thought we’d see even 5 years ago.
I’m sure the IRS did have an effect, but anybody who really wanted to vote in 2012 did so. Those who stayed home, for whatever reason they stayed home, simply did so because it wasn’t THAT important to them.
Unless a person was physically incapacited last election season, the vote wasn’t that important to them.
Nope, there are too many people here, on FR. That will not vote for GOP, because they aren’t perfectly conservative.
These people will give the democrats the seats again. Because they will not vote for a lesser evil.
I hope that people are pissed enough to remember this in 2014.
All of those deceased voters probably helped too.
The results of the 2012 Elections should be de-certified.
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