Wrapping up the IRS scandal

[PDH]

The dreaded Yi ignore the cameras filming him and instead focuses on his prey.  This will not be pretty, but it is all part of the cycle of nature.

[Admiral Yi]

You were the one agreeing with the facts in the article.  Do you now have a problem with it?

I have no problem with the facts in the article.

Now seriously, what in the world does that portion of text have to do with anything?

[Admiral Yi]

I can't concentrate with all this kibbitzing! 

[Razgovory]

That if House Republicans only asked for evidence of audits on conservative groups, then used that information that there was some sort of targeting the only evidence of targeting is of the IG only looking for evidence of audits of conservatives.

[Admiral Yi]

Neither can Raz. 

That sentence needs a little brushing up dude.

[Razgovory]

Neither can Raz. 

That sentence needs a little brushing up dude.

House Republicans asking the IG to only provide audits on Conservative groups is blatant cherry picking.

[CountDeMoney]

Raz, you're becoming Razzy again tonight.  Go relax for a while, have a bowl of cereal or something.

[Razgovory]

Raz, you're becoming Razzy again tonight.  Go relax for a while, have a bowl of cereal or something.

I'm trying to juggle two things at once.  Trying to figure out what Yi wants and at the same time trying to break though 11B4whateverthefuck "Just cause" logic.

[PDH]

The bewildered Raz, confused by the terrain, is now easy prey for either attacker.  Who will strike first?

[Admiral Yi]

House Republicans asking the IG to only provide audits on Conservative groups is blatant cherry picking.

As I stated earlier, you seem to be operating under the assumption that the IG came to conclusion that the IRS was targetting TP types because:

a) they asked only for TP audits
b) they looked through the audits, saw only TP audits
c) and from that concluded the IRS was disproportionately targetting TP.

What I didn't state before is not even a 2 year old thinks like this.  Not even a 2 year old goes to the ice cream store, looks at all the flavors in the display, asks for a scoop of chocolate, then asks his dad why the store only has chocolate ice cream.

The original charge of targeting TP came not from the imaginary portion of the report written by a 2 year old with Down's Syndrome, but from the part of the report that discussed the confessions of middle managers in the Cleveland office of the IRS that they were in fact specifically targeting TP groups for extra scrutiny.

[Jacob]

Yeah, the blog post says the facts are:

Republicans ask the IG to investigate IRS targeting of conservative groups.

The IRS also targets liberal groups in equal measure, but the IG does not investigate that either because the Republicans didn't ask them to, or for some other reason.

Republicans see the IG report focusing solely on IRS investigations of Conservative groups; since there are no liberal groups being investigated in the report they see this as proof the the IRS is being used as a partisan weapon focusing solely on Conservatives. This drives the "scandal" for quite a while.

During the investigation, the IG guy fails to mention any instances of investigations of liberal groups - even though they exist aplenty, and even though the whole point of the hearings were the allegations that the IRS only investigated conservative groups and didn't investigate liberal ones.

There was no basis to the scandal except selective picking of facts either generated deliberately or due to echo chamber incompetence. There is some finger pointing between the Republicans and the IG.

[Jacob]

As I stated earlier, you seem to be operating under the assumption that the IG came to conclusion that the IRS was targetting TP types because:

a) they asked only for TP audits
b) they looked through the audits, saw only TP audits
c) and from that concluded the IRS was disproportionately targetting TP.

What I didn't state before is not even a 2 year old thinks like this.  Not even a 2 year old goes to the ice cream store, looks at all the flavors in the display, asks for a scoop of chocolate, then asks his dad why the store only has chocolate ice cream.

The original charge of targeting TP came not from the imaginary portion of the report written by a 2 year old with Down's Syndrome, but from the part of the report that discussed the confessions of middle managers in the Cleveland office of the IRS that they were in fact specifically targeting TP groups for extra scrutiny.

So your argument against the the article in the OP is that no one would be that stupid? And to claim so is purely spin?

[Admiral Yi]

So your argument against the the article in the OP is that no one would be that stupid? And to claim so is purely spin?

I feel sort of like I'm repeating myself.

I have many arguments against the OP.

The author asserts progressive groups were equally targeted but doesn't substantiate it.

The author claims that the request by the IG to only look at TP audits is earth shattering, whereas the original charge that the IRS was targetting TP was based on statements by IRS staffers that they were targetting TP groups.  It's theoretically possible that in addition to these statements, the conclusion was reinforced by the insight of the 2 year old Down's Syndrome staffers of the IG that since the only audits the IRS had given them, after they had asked to only look at TP audits, were in fact only TP audits, that TP groups must have been disproportionately targeted.  I say theoretically because I've never read anything like that.

BTW, how many threads have you started now about the utterly final and complete end of the IRS scandal?

[CountDeMoney]

There was no basis to the scandal except selective picking of facts either generated deliberately or due to echo chamber incompetence.

It's Dan Issa's style.

[Razgovory]

There was no basis to the scandal except selective picking of facts either generated deliberately or due to echo chamber incompetence.

It's Dan Issa's style.

So is stealing cars and lighting fires.