Amy Dardashtian

Television Correspondent and Attorney

Will today mark the dawning of another new era? Or will Congress miss the opportunity to examine the problems within the agency that extend beyond this one scandal?

Hoyt Hilsman

Journalist, screenwriter, critic and former candidate for Congress

By attacking Obama, the Republicans are throwing red meat to their base, which is an increasingly small and extreme group of right-wingers. The danger of tossing red meat to a tiger is that it becomes even more aggressive.

Andy Ostroy

Political & pop culture analyst

Imagine a Washington, D.C. where Republicans came to work each day fired up with renewed passion and zeal. A Congress where energized Republicans legislated in bi-partisan fashion on behalf of the American people.

Wendy N. Powell

Mgt Consultant; Professor; Career Expert; Author, Management Experience Acquired

We all have skin in this game to maintain our liberties. It is an ironic turn of events that the very issue of inappropriate scrutiny of our liberties is now the focus of the IRS by the public, media, elected officials; even the ACLU has raised its head.

Gene Marks

Small business management columnist, author, speaker, and business owner

We know you've been doing it for years now, so why hide anymore? Instead, just tell the public what you're doing is yet another service you're providing, particularly if you concentrate on those groups that really make our lives worse.

Sanjay Sanghoee

Banker, political and business commentator; author of 'Killing Wall Street' (www.killingwallstreet.com)

By migrating illegally, Ted Nugent is sticking it to Mexico by giving them a taste of their own medicine. Let's see how the Mexicans like it when Ted Nugent tunnels in under the border!

Lester & Charlie

Political satirists

Not since New Coke have we as a nation seen a disaster that both sides of the aisle can agree on. America is now unanimously and officially outraged that the IRS would have the audacity to target political groups -- groups that publicly despise taxes and call for the end of the IRS.

Dan Kennedy

Assistant Professor, School of Journalism at Northeastern University, and author of "The Wired City"

Over the past few years the IRS has virtually stopped approving 501(c)(3) status for nonprofit news organizations. Even when applications for 501(c)(3) status aren't rejected outright, they are stacking up, unacted upon, for months and even years.

Alan Singer

Social studies educator, Hofstra University

In one swoop, Hutchinson managed to eliminate Native Americans, Mexicans, and enslaved Africans from Texas history -- and Jon Stewart let it go.

Peter S. Goodman

Executive Business Editor, The Huffington Post

The IRS appears to have devoted unique effort to making sure that Tea Party organizations were not fudging the paperwork in their bids to secure tax exemption. Good for the IRS.

The Center for Public Integrity

Original investigative journalism

During the past two decades, individual employees of the agency have collectively increased their political giving, which has overwhelming benefited Democrats and liberal-leaning organizations.

Carl Gibson

Co-Founder, US Uncut

If we're going to fight a binary struggle, it should be populist versus corporatist. That's the only real division in this country right now. Are you on the people's side, or on big money's side?

Ian Williams

Author and journalist

In a democracy, people should stand up for their beliefs, not skulk behind anonymity.

Jared Bernstein

Fmr. Obama administration economist; CNBC and MSNBC contributor

The problem here isn't the president. It's the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision and subsequent tax law written by Congress that gives these groups tax exempt status.

Rev. Barry Lynn

Executive Director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State

It appears that officials at the IRS can't get motivated to work resolving an actual problem and are instead spending time embroiling themselves in embarrassing scandals. Perhaps it's time to bring in some people who not only understand the law but are willing to enforce it.

Joe Peyronnin

Hofstra Journalism Professor

The U.S. Justice Department's secret seizure of two months of phone records for reporters and editors of the Associated Press is a reckless violation of the First Amendment. There is nothing more sacred in the American democracy than freedom of the press.