If progressives experienced similar targeting, why didnât they make any notable contemporaneous complaints? After all, conservatives raised the issue well over a year ago, members of Congress asked the IRS commissioner about it directly, and the New York Times was even moved by the complaints to write its now-clownish March 7, 2012, editorial claiming the IRS was merely âdo[ing] its job.â
Perhaps progressives didnât complain because their targeting experience involved seven groups that were asked an average of just five additional questions (rounded up to be generous) and were approved at a 100 percent rate.
By contrast, 104 âphony scandalâ conservative groups experienced an average of 15 additional questions (14.9 to be exact), only 46 percent were approved, and 56 groups are either waiting for a determination or have withdrawn in frustration. There is simply no comparison.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-gr...ng-out-irs-harassment-tea-party#ixzz2b64tRdMF
Perhaps progressives didnât complain because their targeting experience involved seven groups that were asked an average of just five additional questions (rounded up to be generous) and were approved at a 100 percent rate.
By contrast, 104 âphony scandalâ conservative groups experienced an average of 15 additional questions (14.9 to be exact), only 46 percent were approved, and 56 groups are either waiting for a determination or have withdrawn in frustration. There is simply no comparison.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-gr...ng-out-irs-harassment-tea-party#ixzz2b64tRdMF
