Do you talk to people like this in real life? I don't read all of your posts, but you call people stupid in almost every post you make. Must be difficult always being the smartest guy in the room, no?
In any event, no the IRS did not target 100 percent of liberal groups the way it did with tea party groups. Here is what the IG said:
“Our audit did not find evidence that the IRS used the ‘progressives’ identifier as selection criteria for potential political cases between May 2010 and May 2012,” George wrote in the letter obtained by The Hill.
The inspector general also stressed that 100 percent of the groups with “Tea Party,” “patriots” and “9/12” in their name were flagged for extra attention.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/27/irs-inspector-general-no-liberal-groups-werent-targeted-the-way-tea-party-groups-were/
To answer your questions:
1. Of course the president used the IRS to target political opponents, which benefitted him. He didn't give someone a memo with that kind of directive. He didn't have too. He just publicly criticized those groups and said they needed to be investigated. That's why the targeting happened. Those people did exactly what the president wanted them to do. Is there a smoking gun? Of course not.
2. Yes.
Less than Zero Proof of this but since you believe then you must believe that he also told them to scrutinize groups with the word "Emerge" in their names
Why do you think Obama would want to deny 501c4 status to groups that train Democratic women to seek office?
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/317855-dems-irs-screened-for-acorn-successors-dem-groupsThe new information from Cummings and Levin also shows that IRS officials were told to keep their eyes open for so-called Emerge groups, organizations that encourage and train Democratic women to seek office. The IRS eventually denied tax-exempt 501(c)(4) status to Emerge America.
As long as were on the topic apparently the IRS also had a policy of giving additional scrutiny to groups with the work Progressive in their title
Since you believe that Obama was directing all this from the Oval Office why do you think he wanted to targets groups with the word Progressive?
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/08/20/20106920-a-nail-in-the-coffin-of-the-irs-scandal?liteThe documents include an IRS training presentation that instructs IRS employees to screen tax-exemption applications for Democratic leaning "Emerge" organizations alongside "progressive" and "tea party" organizations.
Maybe all this is actually what has been said all along that the problem is the the IRS was put in the position of having to decide whether 501c4 were eligible for tax exempt status in the first place since the law reads they must be organized EXCLUSIVELY for social welfare which is in conflict with a later IRS rule which says that 501c4 organizations can qualify if they are “PRIMARILY ENGAGED” in social
welfare purposes.
This change now required the IRS to actively scrutinized these applications
None of that explains why Obama would want to target groups with the words Emerge and Progressive and actually (presumably) tell the IRS to deny democratic leaning groups while not denying a single TeaBag groups
that really is a puzzle
I can't figure out why he would do that
