Marco Rubio on the IRS Scandal: At Least it's Not About Politics!

    Cynical souls-like me-have suggested that this IRS "scandal" is just the latest GOP ginned up political witch hunt.

    http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/05/will-irs-case-be-investigation-or.html

    http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-irs-pseudoscandal-at-least-in.html

     Indeed, some GOPers have tried to make this all about finding some ephermeral link-no matter how thin-with Obama.

     "Congressional Republicans, for example, are still trying to find some kind of link to the White House. As The Hill reports, House oversight committee chairman Darrell “Issa said last week he’s not ready to clear officials like Neal Wolin, the deputy Treasury secretary, after pressing both Wolin and [Treasury inspector general Russell] George about the possibility that Treasury officials knew details about Tea Party groups being targeted in June 2012.”

     "How this proceeds depends on how Republicans want to approach it. They can treat these inquiries as genuine attempts to find what happened, or they can go the route of their conservative base and insist on linking this scandal to the president. To his credit, Issa is staying away from the former, in an attempt to avoid scandal overreach. But to the party’s detriment, you can’t quite say the same of his some of his colleagues in Congress."

     http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/05/27/some-tea-party-groups-examined-by-the-irs-indeed-crossed-the-line/

    Good to see that Marco Rubio isn't falling into this trap. He has an excellent solution to the IRS scandal: abolish Obamacare:

    "Calling the Internal Revenue Service's role in the implementation of the new federal health care law "chilling," Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) argued in a video posted online Wednesday that the only appropriate response to the controversy involving the agency's targeting of conservative groups is to repeal Obamacare."

     "Answering a question from a constituent as part of a weekly series conducted by his office, the junior Florida senator and potential 2016 aspirant said he intends to renew his focus on the repeal of the Affordable Care Act in the wake of the IRS scandal."

    "So the only answer to this is to repeal Obamacare," Rubio said in response to an email from a man in Orlando, Fla. "It’s just one more reason why this law is going to be a disaster for our country. And in the months to come, I’m really going to focus on the issue of repealing Obamacare because in addition to the IRS’s role there is all sorts of other problems with regards to Obamacare that we need to answer." 

     http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rubio-only-answer-to-irs-scandal-is-to?ref=fpb

      So if he's going to really focus on Obamacare, this means he;s not really going to focus at all on getting at the truth of this scandal: that so many totally political, well heeled Tea Party groups have tax exempt status in the first place-none of them lost it either during the waiting period the IRS subjected many of them to. 

     http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-real-story-at-irs-may-be-tea-partys.html

     A real resolution would considerably reduce the number of tax exempt groups in general-why should political groups as virtually all these Tea Party groups are get a subsidy from us?

    Meanwhile, of course the ACA has nothing in the world to do with TeaPartyGate. However, the GOP is desperate about it now as it's already looking successful in places like California. 

    http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-republicans-are-so-desperate-to.html