The video Money fer Nothin’ explains it all.

The Obama IRS Scandal gives Suzie Newsykins a job! Little Suzie Newsykins is here to tell you all about her new summer job at the IRS. With the IRS Tea Party scandal, Suzie has the perfect stress-free job picked out!

Why hadn’t it occurred to me that the main purpose of the “scandal” was to prevent the IRS from applying the rules to these PACs? It seems so obvious when this video makes the point.

Oh, and remember that contrary to what this cartoon said, the IRS did also look at liberal PACs. Since the “conservative” PACs have so much more money, I guess the Republicans were willing to let the liberal PACs hitchhike on their witch hunt. Of course this impact on liberal PACs might have been the reason that Obama caved so quickly and fired the head of the IRS. No attempt to do your job by the rules ever goes unpunished.

I am surprised that the Republicans didn’t borrow the line from the movie Casablanca. When the Republicans, who helped write the IRS regulation that said PACs had to be less than 50% political to receive their tax break, found the IRS actually trying to enforce the tax give-away rules, they could have said “We are shocked to see such behavior.”