The admission by the IRS that its workers targeted conservative Tea Party groups was so scandalous even some of the liberals at MSNBC felt compelled to condemn the tax agency. On Friday’s edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports substitute host Chris Cillizza exclaimed he was “stunned” by the “dumbness” of the IRS.
Cillizza’s Washington Post colleague, Ruth Marcus called the revelations “outrageous.” Marcus added: “The absolute worst thing that the IRS can do is make itself look political/ideological and to make it look like it’s picking on some political groups and not others. That is terrible.” (video after the jump)
Guest panelist Alex Gomez of USA Today also chimed in: “I spent a lot of time with the Tea Party freshman class in 2010 when they came in. And you know very well, they came in with the sort of deep seated suspicion about the federal government and reach and the ability that they have to get into so many things. So this is just, this is going to set off quite a bit.”
The following is the relevant exchange from the May 10 edition of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports:
CILLIZZA: Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader, Alan, this is fascinating. This is a statement he just put out. I’m just gonna read a piece of it. “Today’s acknowledgment by the Obama administration did, in fact, target conservative groups in the heat of last year’s national election is not enough. Today I call on the White House to conduct a transparent government-wide review aimed at assuring the American people that these thuggish practices are not under way at the IRS or elsewhere in the administration against anyone regardless of their political views.” Sorry that was a little long. But look, this is not something that Republicans, I think, are going to say, “Whoopsie, that was an error, let’s move on,” correct?
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