Obama: The IRS is great and Congress stinks. The 'real IRS scandal' is that the IRS is underfunded

As The Washington Times notes, the IRS's internal auditor has concluded that the agency targeted conservative groups. The Times also notes that Obama's DOJ is still conducting a criminal investigation into the matter. But so what? This is Barack Obama. He can't simply allow "facts" to get in the way of his rhetoric.

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Despite the investigations, Obama is defending his favorite federal agency. He says there was no political targeting, blames Congress for the IRS's actions, and he wants to shine a light on "the real scandal."

President Obama defended the IRS Tuesday in an interview with “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart, saying the tea party-targeting scandal was actually Congress‘ fault for passing “a crummy law” and that the real problem is the agency doesn’t have enough money. Mr. Obama, who has overseen a series of scandals at the IRS, the Veterans Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and now the Office of Personnel Management, was asked why government didn’t seem to be working on his watch. But the president said he’s not to blame, using the IRS as an example of how what went wrong wasn’t his fault, and questioning whether tea party groups were ever targeted.

If you're wondering how he can blame a bad law passed by Congress for something he doesn't seem to think actually happened, you should just stop asking so many questions. We're not dealing with reality here so just go with it. "Nothing happened" and, simultaneously, it happened because of a "crummy law." According to Obama, the real tragedy - the scandal if you will - is that the poor, beleaguered, IRS doesn't have enough of your money. Like a doomed man wandering the Gobi desert, the IRS is thirsty. If it doesn't get sustenance soon, it will descend into madness before it finally collapses. As Obama puts it, the “real scandal around the IRS is that they have been so poorly funded that they cannot go after these folks who are deliberately avoiding tax payments.”

Mr. Obama has asked for a major boost in funding for the IRS to get back on track for customer service and for stepping up investigations of taxpayers.

In other words: The IRS needs to absorb more money, so it will have more money it can use to absorb more money. Sounds reasonable.