Some Republicans are painting IRS employees as an armed public menace. Joe Scarborough: 'You have placed this target on the backs of IRS agents. You have placed a target on the back of FBI agents...I'd say you've gone too far.'
But as the week progressed, the Republican arguments took an unsettling turn. RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel yesterday, for example,via Twitter, “How long until Democrats send the IRS ‘SWAT team’ after your kids’ lemonade stand?”
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who used to present himself as a fairly serious policymaker, appeared on Fox News yesterday and“Are they going to have a strike force that goes in with AK-15s already loaded, all ready to shoot some small-business person in Iowa with these? Because I think they’re going after middle-class and small-business people.”
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