Politics of the IRS

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Now the teapublicans are claiming the IRS is targeting them, along with other conservative groups.

And not just conservative groups, even now.

This is one of those "bad optics" scandals, where the offence is in how it looks, rather than what was done. That can be plenty serious, especially in a political environment, and I wouldn't be surprised to see people fired, but I would be surprised to see any prosecution.