Here's the letter he sent to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew expressing his outrage at the IRS Commissioner over the IRS's focus on auditing TeaBagger groups:

Dear Secretary Lew:

Recent revelations about the Internal Revenue Service’s selective and deliberate targeting of conservative organizations are outrageous and seriously concerning. This years-long abuse of government power is an assault on the free speech rights of all Americans. This direct assault on our Constitution further justifies the American people’s distrust in government and its ability to properly implement our laws.

The American people deserve answers about how such seemingly unconstitutional and potentially criminal behavior could occur, and who else was aware of it throughout the Administration. It is imperative that you, your predecessor, and other past and present high-ranking officials at the Department of Treasury and IRS immediately testify before Congress.

The public expects your complete cooperation with both congressional investigations and potential criminal inquiries. If investigations reveal that bureaucrats or political appointees engaged in unconstitutional or criminal targeting of conservative taxpayers, they must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. At a bare minimum, those involved with this deeply offensive use of government power have committed a violation of the public trust that has already had a profoundly chilling effect on free speech. Such behavior cannot be excused with a simple apology.

Furthermore, it is clear the IRS cannot operate with even a shred of the American people’s confidence under the current leadership. Therefore, I strongly urge that you and President Obama demand the IRS Commissioner’s resignation, effectively immediately. No government agency that has behaved in such a manner can possibly instill any faith and respect from the American public.

Sincerely,

Marco Rubio

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Todd

No, Obama didn't call for the resignation of the IRS Commissioner.

Why?

Because there isn't one.

Why not?

Because the nomination process for a new one for the vacant office has been filibustered by...drum roll...Congressional Republicans like Marco Rubio.

Maybe if he and the rest of the blowhards want some oversight over the IRS, and any other department, they should stop filibustering all the nominations.

What a fuckin fool...not surprised he's a TeaBagger darling.

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Todd

Marco Rubio and other idiots like him should roll.

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Todd

No.

The biggest problem with this story is that there are SuperPAC's all over the place, all over the full political spectrum, who are in direct and obvious violation of the law by conducting political activity while being 501(c)(3)'s...it's not going after TeaBaggers that's the problem, it's not going after all of them that's the problem.

The IRS should audit all of them and hit all of the violators with massive tax bills.

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Todd

I haven't seen it yet.

This is just another symptom of the atrocious Citizens United ruling...and another problem that goes away tomorrow with publicly funded elections.

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Todd

The next question is whether or not the Republicans will waste as much time blaming this on Obama as they are wasting trying to blame Benghazi on Hillary.

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Todd

Things are certain to become even more interesting when the I.R.S. has to enforce the funding mechanisms to feed the Affordable Care Act.

Don't fear the Taxman.
In my government I trust,
"Trust but verify".

the IRS should audit the IRS... shiesty bastards..

No doubt that they would be to heart of the matter in no time.

That was so good it deserved repeating.

Maybe Marco should drink some water to cool himself down.......

I wonder how outraged Marco "I'm Clearly a Fuckin Idiot" Rubio was when the IRS investigated the NAACP in 2004 after the NAACP criticized Dubya?

I suspect that he would have been about as outraged as KK at a petting zoo.

Kinda like how Issa is flipping out over the AP subpoena issue after he was one of 21 Congressmen who voted against a bill that would have prohibited the very thing that the DOJ just did...which, by the way, was authorized by the Patriot Act.

I think it's bullschit that those subpoenas were legal...but it's double bullschit for Republicans who supported the law that made it legal are now whining about it.

I hope their rampant hypocrisy (everyone's on this issue) should be exposed widely and often.

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Todd

Yeah - makes one wonder where you and your crew were during the Bush years.

I told you Obama was every bit the asshat Bush was - but you can't seem to see that Obama and Bush are two peas in the same pod.

Hank, get your head out of your ample ass...that's why I said "everyone's hypocrisy"...Senator Obama was one of the ones who sponsored the bill that would have exempted the AP from having their phone records being subpoenaed.

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Todd

name 1 president that actually did anything good for the citizens besides Washington, Lincoln, and Kennedy...

Oh that's right - you did make one post critical of GWB.

Deja Vu, It is good that one cannot hold the O guy responsible for Benghazi, the IRS miscues and Fast and Furious. He fortunately has, as
did Reagan, a Paladin to take the blame. Reagan stayed clean in the
Iran/Contra debacle and the O guy will stay clean too. You couldn't expect the CinC to know what's going on. He had no teleprompter.

So where was your indignant outrage in 2004 when the IRS was investigating the NAACP and Greenpeace.
I'm still laughing about no head of the IRS because of filibustering obstructionism by the GOP.
And now the agency is failing, John Stewart might need some help with this comic heavy lifting.

thats because Reagan didnt get caught...


did you know that a extremely high profile drug kingpin was involved in the Contra scandle?