“He put a target on our backs, and he’s now going to blame the people who are shooting at us?” asks Idaho businessman and longtime Republican donor Frank VanderSloot. The WSJ’s Kimberly Strassel  says the IRS scandal goes to the top. The president publicly implied enemies were out to get him and that set the tone.

Vandersloot was a wealthy contributor to the Romney campaign who was subjected to searches of his divorce records and 3 IRS audits. He spent $80,000 defending himself.

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You don’t have to belong to a right wing constitutional group to  suspect Lois Lerner pulled a fast one when she claimed she was innocent and then took the fifth.

The IRS has placed her on paid administrative leave.

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Kirsten Powers reminded readers that the Obama administration and its posse have had it in for Fox News from the get go, insisting that Fox isn’t a real news operation. Much of the mainstream-media remained silent on that charge though Jack Tapper would be an exception. When Tapper asked where the White House got off saying thousands of Fox employees don’t work for a media organization Jay Carney replied, “that’s our opinion”.

Obama recently told Ohio State students not to question authority. Looks like he really meant it.

Update: Holder signed off on a warrant to seize Jim Rosen’s stuff and named him a co-conspirator.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook was dragged to the U.S. Senate to apologize for his success. While his company paid $6 billion in U.S. taxes last year it paid little if anything on it’s overseas stash. All perfectly legal. Even the president doesn’t pay more than he owes.

Rand Paul said the Senate ought to apologize for the dog and pony show, but Carl Levin was having none of that as he took a crack at American pensions and 401ks by insisting that Apple send more money to foreign countries.

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Enroll America, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting Obamacare, has not been intimidated by the IRS. In fact, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been shaking down …er..offering health care companies the opportunity to make contributions to the operation.

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The thrill is gone even for Chris Mathews when it comes to the president’s engagement in his job. Dana Milbank calls him the “Passerby President”. David Fredosso at the Washington Examiner tweeted that ” Seal Team 6 is the only govt agency that acts directly on Obama’s behalf. All others are run by front-line employees making grave errors”.

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The Supreme Court ruled that the individual mandate is a tax and therefore Obamacare is constitutional under Congress’s power to tax. That means lots more work for the IRS. They’re building the largest government data base ever to combine personal information from agencies around the country.

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John Dickerson at Slate says Obama is making the case for conservatism better than Republicans do.

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The Department of Justice is providing tougher oversight of the AP than it did of its own ATF during the Fast and Furious scandal.

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Jay Carney says the Benghazi attack happened long ago and and far away.

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