Today’s First Read could almost be mistaken for a serious commentary on the Obama administration’s twin horror stories: Benghazi, and the revelation that the IRS has been targeting conservative and Tea Party and groups that teach about the Constitution. On the surface, it looks like Chuck Todd and company may be ready to ask tough and proper questions of the administration. But they’re not.

On the question of the IRS, Todd and his cohorts are mainly interested in how the GOP can “demagogue” the fact that the Internal Revenue Service blatantly abused its power.

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More significantly, the IRS news is a political gift to a Republican Party whose base was strained on immigration (remember that Heritage Foundation study?) and even on guns (remember the tough questions Sens. Kelly Ayotte and Jeff Flake were getting?). Now, you’re seeing a GOP base united by two things they absolutely dislike: President Obama and the Internal Revenue Service. The news also is a gift to Republicans like Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, or any incumbent Republican in Washington hoping to avoid a tough primary in 2014 – they get to demagogue the heck out of this story and show they will stand up for the Tea Party.

Yeah, Lindsey Graham is the real story here. Not the fact that after the Obama Democrats took a shellacking at the hands of Tea Party and constitution groups in 2010, the IRS just happened to start targeting them — while it left the likes of Media Matters entirely alone.

Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #3

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what color shirt Mika is wearing....

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