Again, there is simply no greater achievement in the modern conservative movement than becoming a martyr. Accused by the OBAMA IRS and the “lamestream media” of wrongdoing? They’ll rally around him even if it turns out he was using the card to pay for gay sex with aborted fetuses in a bondage-themed club.I'll play out the rest of this scenario: GOP senators will call for a probe into the IRS going after Republicans, declare this to be the most corrupt administration ever, and FOX News will bring us the requisite Chyron "Obama's IRS Army Coming For You?" with requisite Cavuto Mark.
He doesn’t have to explain anything- all he has to do is deny it and play the victim, and let the “principled conservatives” in the wingnut wurlitzer and the blogosphere do the rest. I’m not going to do it, but someone else can listen to Rush and the others today, and I guarantee they will come out swinging at the accusers and rallying around Rubio. National Review will have ten pieces up by noon lamenting the politicization of the IRS. Mark my words.
As a matter of fact, given the IRS angle of this story and the Tea Party hatred of anything gubmint, expect more physical attacks on IRS agents and buildings and Republicans seriously intoning that this is all Obama's fault, that lowering taxes will in fact keep Tea Party Patriots from harming those evil Revenuers and that massive tax cuts will in fact save lives.
The Village will completely buy that bullshit too. I reserve the right to the Youtube of George Will and David Brooks on This Week arguing if Obama should triangulate like Clinton and completely abandon his agenda in order to prevent tinfoil lunatics on the right from hurting anyone, and if it's alright to consider impeaching Obama if he doesn't because he's putting government workers in harm's way with his policies.
You laugh. Give it six weeks.
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Of course you realize that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote that provision in the IRS code, don't you?
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