◼ You Want Angry? I'll Show You Angry, Obama Says on IRS Scandal - National Journal
◼ President Obama announced Wednesday night that the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service had been ousted after disclosures that the agency gave special scrutiny to conservative groups. - NYT
◼ “That was the absolute minimum he could have done, he said. He relieves one person – he obviously had to – he had to relieve at least one person and he chose, of course, the acting commissioner.” - Nice Deb
Said Krauthammer of Obama’s statement:
And then he says there’s going to be an investigation from Treasury. Well, that just means that the left hand of the government investigating the right hand. He did say he’d cooperate with Congress, but then he has the chutzpa to essentially warn republicans not to make this into a political event.
[W]e’re talking about is the IRS applying political criteria — inexcusably, unconstitutionally, probably criminally — and deciding who it’s going to investigate.
“I found this the bare minimum,” he concluded. “It’ll hold them for 12 hours, but no more.”
