don t understand politics necessarily. as i said it s a creative writing class. that was one heck of a creative lecture. caleb, thank you. our political panel is back. all right. jason, what do you think? i think the professor is taking his cues from president obama and attorney general eric holder. who are pretty much out there saying the same thing. a little more polished but essentially the same thing. they are lying to certain groups, certain parts of their base in hopes of scaring them to the polls in november. lying to blacks about voter suppression. lying to women about sexism driving the gender pay gap and so forth. obama and holder went up to harlem to kiss can al sharpton s ring saying this in front of a black audience about whites, about conservatives. al sharpton is perhaps the most racially polarizing figure in this country. and here they were, countenancing the types of activism that al sharpton is doing. i don t think the professor is saying much different than thank
the roof. that s not all we are watching tonight. up first, the irs deserves to be slammed. listen to this. the irs handing out millions of dollars in bonuses to owe back taxes. that s not all. joining us our political panel. abc news political director rick cline, susan crabtree and jason rowling s. rick, new report out by the treasury inspector general is appalling. 92 million in 2001, in cash bonuses to the irs. yeah. many of them had owed back taxes. look, the one issue is whether people should get bonuses like this in such large numbers when you have 70% of the employees at the agency getting pope newses why is it called bonus. the other is who gets the bonus. the idea people who themselves not paying taxes appropriately being rewarded for performance of jobs at irs tells you a little bit about something how management is work. their very mission is to collect taxes. and at the same time, when they have failed to collect their own taxes, they are
don t understand politics necessarily. as i said it s a creative writing class. that was one heck of a creative lecture. caleb, thank you. our political panel is back. all right. jason, what do you think? i think the professor is taking his cues from president obama and attorney general eric holder. who are pretty much out there saying the same thing. a little more polished but essentially the same thing. they are lying to certain groups, certain parts of their base in hopes of scaring them to the polls in november. lying to blacks about voter suppression. lying to women about sexism driving the gender pay gap and so forth. obama and holder went up to harlem to kiss can al sharpton s ring saying this in front of a black audience about whites, about conservatives. al sharpton is perhaps the most racially polarizing figure in this country. and here they were, countenancing the types of activism that al sharpton is doing. i don t think the professor is saying much different than thank
the roof. that s not all we are watching tonight. up first, the irs deserves to be slammed. listen to this. the irs handing out millions of dollars in bonuses to owe back taxes. that s not all. joining us our political panel. abc news political director rick cline, susan crabtree and jason rowling s. rick, new report out by the treasury inspector general is appalling. 92 million in 2001, in cash bonuses to the irs. yeah. many of them had owed back taxes. look, the one issue is whether people should get bonuses like this in such large numbers when you have 70% of the employees at the agency getting pope newses why is it called bonus. the other is who gets the bonus. the idea people who themselves not paying taxes appropriately being rewarded for performance of jobs at irs tells you a little bit about something how management is work. their very mission is to collect taxes. and at the same time, when they have failed to collect their own taxes, they are getting bonuses.