President Barack Obama prompted the IRS targeting of conservative groups, a new House report says.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a report Monday that details what it says is a deliberate attempt by the president to pressure the agency into scrutinizing tea party and other conservative groups.

"When the President speaks, people listen," the report begins. "The Presidential Bully Pulpit is a unique and indisputably powerful tool available to the President alone to persuade Americans and shape a national agenda. President Barack Obama — a highly celebrated speaker noted for his oratory — exerts this power with uncommon vigor. President Obama's ability to command the rapt attention of the national news media, and by extension the American people, has become his most effective and favored rhetorical tool.

"With his Bully Pulpit, President Obama wields the power to single-handedly shape the national dialogue. In this case, President Obama's Bully Pulpit led to the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative tax-exempt applicants."

The report concludes that Obama's "rhetorical assault" on the conservative groups led the IRS to examine them when they applied for tax-exempt status.

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"The report concludes that Obama's "rhetorical assault" on the conservative groups led the IRS to examine them when they applied for tax-exempt status."

Yeah, whatever, but my guess is that Obama & Co. decided on this policy, communicated it sub rosa to the leadership of the IRS, and then the President gave his speech as cover for what was already planned. Lerner was tasked with implementing the plan.