Conservative-targeting Levin will investigate conservative-targeting IRS?

Posted by hpayne on May 14, 2013

Talk about the fox watching the chicken coop.

The House Ways and Means Committee has announced that it will hold a hearing Friday to look into the IRS’s alleged political targeting of tea party groups. The Republican committee chair is Michigan’s Dave Camp. R-Midland. And the ranking Democrat? Rep. Sander Levin, D-Royal Oak.

That’s the same Rep. Levin who last year called for the IRS to engage in a political witch-hunt of the non-profit Mackinac Center.

“On its 2010 IRS Form 990, the Mackinac Center answered ‘no’ to the question, ‘Did the organization engage in lobbying activities?’ As described below, I am concerned about the response to this question,” wrote Levin in his letter.

That Mackinac – a champion of the grassroots tea party movement – is an outspoken advocate for small government reforms is no secret. Levin’s letter – leaked to Mackinac’s left-wing rival, Progress Michigan – was an attempt to intimidate the right-wing think tank and its donors.

Mr. Levin will no doubt bring his impartial reputation to the IRS’s attempt to intimidate other conservative non-profits.

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