David Freddoso, Conservative Intel, is reporting that House Democrats in their release of new IRS documents, along with a briefing from the new IRS director, managed to get several news outlets to report that “progressive” groups had been targeted by the IRS in much the same way as Tea Party groups. The more accurate reports merely mention that a certain type of “progressive” group application was mentioned on IRS “be on the lookout lists.”

But if progressive advocacy groups were given the third degree, then you might ask why none of them have come forward. Possibly because the documents in question do not actually say they were systematically targeted. And probably because the kinds of groups discussed in these documents are of a totally different nature than the Tea Party groups targeted in the recent scandal.
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Sen. Ted Cruz

The betrayal of the Rule of Law and our Constitutional Republic continue in the time of leftist loons and a cowardly Congress.  Not all, however, have drunk the Kool-Aid of malicious manipulations by well-funded evil or the fools who worship fame.  At the moment, the battle is in the U.S. Senate.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement after Monday’s vote:

Sen. Jeff Sessions

“The Gang of Eight and their allies revealed their true tactics tonight. They shut down debate and blocked amendments to a 1,200-page immigration bill that no one has read. It was anything but the open and fair process that they had promised.

“What we know for absolute certain is that this bill guarantees three things: instantaneous amnesty, permanent lawlessness, and a massive expansion in legal immigration that will reduce wages for working Americans. This legislation is a crushing blow to the working people of this country, a surrender to illegality, and a capitulation to special interests over the interests of the citizens we pledged to represent,” Sen. Sessions concluded.
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