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Gene Healy: Nothing to joke about in a partisan IRS

By Gene Healy
Published May 13, 2013 4:00am ET
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Gene Healy: Nothing to joke about in a partisan IRS
President Obama ought to stay away from jokes about sending the IRS to audit his enemies after the Associated Press revealed that the IRS targeted Tea Party organizations. (Thinkstock) | Robert Wilson

President Obama has a sharp comedic delivery for a politician, but sometimes you wish he’d joke a little less about abuses of federal power.

He, er, slayed them in the aisles at the 2010 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, warning the Jonas Brothers to steer clear of his daughters: “Two words for you: predator drones. You will never see it coming.”

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