Politics of the IRS

[Lamplighter]

Recently, a Dwellar complained that there was no criticism of the D's,
but that there would be a lot if this had happened while the R's were in office.

I have to admit I have not been following the issue closely, but I agree
with Happy Monkey's post, it is an issue that looks bad and resonates with the public.
Politics inside the I.R.S. certainly would be a huge No-No.

So far, what I've seen on the news points to one IRS office (Cincinatti),
and there was a comment that the workload of evaluating applications
was assigned to just one IRS employee, along with a comment
that workloads had increased greatly since Obama's election
and the "Citizens United" decision by the US Supreme Court.
Even if true, that sounds to me like excuses or rationalizations.

I think there is at least the one agreement between the D's and the R's,
that the IRS should be as pure as the driven snow, Caesar's wife, and other such standards.

Having said all that, today (5/26/13) there is this article in the NY Times
entitled: "Groups Targeted by I.R.S. Tested Rules on Politics"

Obviously, the NY Times is a left-leaning paper,
but this does seem to lay out some "issues" that
could lead to a reasonable(?) discussion of this "scandal".