Blue Dogs to President: Investigate IRS

Yesterday, co-chairs of the fiscally conservative, Democratic Blue Dog Coalition – Reps. Barrow (D-GA), Cooper (D-TN), Matheson (D-UT) and Schrader (D-OR) – sent a letter to President Obama condemning the inexcusable behavior by the IRS in targeting outside conservative groups and urging him to immediately initiate an investigation.

“As co-chairs of the Blue Dog Coalition, we are very concerned the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) allegedly targeted certain groups based simply on the perception of partisanship in their names,” the terse letter read. “The IRS should never target Americans for their political beliefs. It goes against everything we stand for as a country. We must investigate who broke the law and punish them.”