Obama denies IRS deliberately targeted Tea Party

The man who called reports that the IRS targeted conservatives "outrageous" and "intolerable" now says it never happened. Appearing on The Daily Show, the president told John Stewart that it was the Republicans' fault that the IRS tried to implement a poorly written and "vague" law and that the real scandal was a lack of funding for the tax agency. President Obama defended the IRS Tuesday in an interview with “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart, saying the tea party-targeting scandal was actually Congress‘ fault for passing “a crummy law” and that the real problem is the agency doesn’t have enough money. Mr. Obama, who has overseen a series of scandals at the IRS, the Veterans Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and now the Office of Personnel Management, was asked why government didn’t seem to be working on his watch. But the president said...(Read Full Post)