The IRS ‘scandal’ took an unexpected turn this week. Unexpected for all of the people who have believed Republicans and their insistence that President Obama has been using the IRS as a vehicle to target his political enemies. The rest of us, the people who have bothered to listen to all of the facts thus far, are not as surprised.

Republicans first claimed that this was a huge scandal because conservative groups were being hunted by the current administration. That seemed to fall apart when it was revealed that the IRS manager, that initially approved further scrutiny into these group’s applications for tax exempt status, identifies himself as a Conservative Republican. This same manager said that they were in no way directed by the White House. That of course was not enough for Republicans and the scandal-mongering continued.

Last week it was shown that Issa was manipulating evidence to prove his charge that President Obama’s administration is ‘one of the most corrupt administrations.’ Issa became furious at Representative Elijah Cummings’ (D-MD) audacity to release over 200 pages of transcripts from the interviews conducted in the IRS scandal so far. Cummings first asked Issa to release them all, instead picking and choosing the transcripts that supported his agenda, but when he was ignored Cummings took matters into his own hands. Issa then accused Cummings of obstructing the investigation because it was now very clear that the White House was in no way involved in the targeting of right wing groups. It seemed as if Issa’s scandal was ripping at the seams.

This week documents revealed that liberal and progressive groups were also targeted by the IRS for further scrutiny. The ‘inappropriate criteria’ on the ‘Be On The Lookout’ (BOLO) memos that Republicans have been up in arms about were not -as they’ve claimed- only used on the Tea Party. Now that it has been definitively shown that Tea Party groups were not the only ones targeted, republicans are whining that the liberal groups were not treated as ‘harshly’ and Tea Party groups. However, they wouldn’t know how harshly the groups were treated because of this:

A spokesman for Russell George, Treasury’s inspector general (IG) for tax administration, said they were asked by House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) “to narrowly focus on Tea Party organizations.”

What an interesting revelation! So according to the official in charge of the IRS audit, the same audit that brought all of President Obama’s tyranny to light, Darrell Issa asked them to specifically focus on the IRS’s scrutiny of Tea Party Groups. When the spokesman for the IG was asked further information about the scope of the investigation into the liberal groups, he said:

“We did not review the use, disposition, purpose or content of the other BOLOs. That was outside the scope of our audit.” [SOURCE]

Both political parties have criticized the IG’s investigation, calling it flawed. Republicans are now saying that they didn’t tell him to limit his scope to just those groups and he should have broadened his investigation. Democrats agree that more could have been done in the investigation but not because of their desire to politicize the mismanagement of the IRS, they just want to fix it.

It is pretty hilarious that the entire scandal is based on claims that Obama is using the IRS to target Republicans and yet, all of the evidence proves otherwise. It’s even funnier that they are claiming that the Tea Party groups were treated more harshly when they don’t actually know how the other groups were treated because Issa told them to narrow their audit. He purposely misled the public to satisfy his own political agenda; I am so shacked! No, I’m not shocked at all, this is typical right-wing behavior.

The IRS scandal seems to be going to way of the Benghazi scandal. It seems like just with Benghazi, Republicans can’t seem to tell us why they are so outraged. I predict it won’t be long before they stop talking about this. If history repeats itself, it will fizzle out much the same way the other ‘scandals’ have. Just be sure to prepare yourselves for the impending new scandal, because there will surely be one.