Another right-wing talking point dead: IRS also investigated Democratic group during Tea Party probe

Well, it looks like the booger-eaters are gonna have to go back to the clip of Dukakis in the tank for talking points.

Emerge America is a Democratic group that - according to a Daily Kos user - saw its tax-exempt status denied by the IRS in the Bush years because of its views. But it turns out that just within the past 2 years - when the IRS was supposedly singling out only Tea Party groups for heightened scrutiny - the IRS investigated several Emerge America branches and denied their tax-exempt status.

This confirms that the IRS wasn't probing Tea Party groups because they were Tea Party groups. They were targeting groups that simply didn't qualify for a tax exemption - regardless of what the group's views were. That's the only conclusion one can come to. While the IRS under Bush reportedly targeted Emerge America because of its views, the IRS more recently targeted both Emerge America and the Tea Party because they didn't qualify as tax-exempt. In neither scenario was the Tea Party or any other explicitly conservative movement being singled out for their views.

That the IRS simultaneously targeted both the Tea Party and the Democrats is confirmed by a soon-to-be-released report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration - a report Reuters has obtained part of. The report also says the Obama administration exerted no influence on this process.

So how many major "scandals" ginned up by Congress have crashed and burned just this week? And it's only Tuesday!

(Source: http://www.politicususa.com/gop-scandal-falls-irs-targeted-liberals-2012.html)