It’s not mentioned loudly in Rhode Island, but revelations keep on coming in the IRS targeting of conservative groups:

 … on March 27, [former IRS non-profit-division head Lois] Lerner in an email to top IRS staff wrote that “folks from the FEC world,” were pressing for “tax-fraud prosecutions” for nonprofit organizations accused of lying about not conducting political activity. “This is their latest push to shut these down,” she wrote. “One IRS prosecution would make an impact and they wouldn’t feel so comfortable doing the stuff.”

It’s especially curious that this news hasn’t been bigger in Rhode Island, because the name of our own Senator Sheldon Whitehouse appears in the controversial emails.  Apparently, the prompting of some of Whitehouse’s anti-Tea Party theatrics helped get the ball rolling for cross-agency talks about finding a group of which to make an example.

It seems to me the Left and the media are happy to let this scandal slip through various cracks.  On the one hand, we’re supposed to take the Senator’s rhetoric as simply that.  When he slanders people who disagree with him on policy, that’s just talk, not to be treated as if it’s actionable (or, for that matter, worth fact checking).  Yet, when the rhetoric turns into targeting, well, that has nothing to do with the rhetoric; it’s just the government trying to make the world safer for democracy… or at least Democrats.