July 2, 2013 --

On June 17, The New York Times printed an editorial called "Release the Facts About the I.R.S. Scandal".

LPR has a hunch that neither The New York Times nor the Obama Administration wants the facts of this scandal released.

Curiously, the Times editorial opened with the suggestion that the Republican congressional leadership should be interested "in fixing the clear management problems" at the Internal Revenue Service.

The editorial did not elaborate as to the nature of those "management problems." The suggestion would, of course, pin responsibility on Republicans for fixing an executive branch problem.

(LPR doubts, strongly, that the Times wants the GOP to fix anything.)

The Times's editorial cited a report, made public by Rep. Elijah Cummings, ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (the committee IRS bureaucrat Lois Lerner stonewalled by pleading the Fifth Amendment), that according to an unnamed "conservative Republican " IRS worker, special scrutiny of Tea Part requests for tax exemption "originated" in the IRS Cincinnati office.

LPR would like to hear what this unnamed Republican has to say about the drafting of the intrusive questionnaires apparently presented to Tea Party groups in hopes of discouraging requests for tax exemptions.

Application of Occam's Razor instructs LPR that the goal of the IRS exercise against the Tea Party was to reduce Tea Party capability in the 2012 presidential election for the purpose of making the Republican presidential candidate less viable.

Yet, to achieve that goal, all leftists need do is let the Republican Party establishment just be the Republican Party establishment.

Yup, LPR has become convinced that the Republican Party can lose all viability without any special attention from the Obama Administration and The New York Times and the rest of the leftist media cheerleaders.