Got into a facebook argument with a conservative friend today. He said there is no way that the Bush-bashing media would ignore such an abuse of power as the current scandal that is occuring with the tax exempt tea party groups. Therefore, he said, it is inplausable that the IRS went after Greenpeace without anyone noticing.
Well, I said, we noticed. And then I went looking for information. I found various notes of this on websites that he would not believe and a WSJ article under a subscription firewall.
Then I took a crack at the congressional hearing records. I found that the GOP did, in fact notice. They just did not consider it an abuse of power.
They wanted to extend it to the entire environmental movement......