Not the first time she’s blamed Bush for what happened at the IRS.

(CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday during a press conference on Capitol Hill that the buck doesn’t stop with President Barack Obama on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal, because he cannot “know about everything that is going on in every agency of government.”

“Well, the president doesn’t know about everything that is going on in every agency of government,” Pelosi said in response to a reporter asking, “Doesn’t the buck stop with him (Obama)? Shouldn’t he have known about all of these things, but he says he didn’t know about any of this?” […]

Pelosi was asked whether the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups will hurt the Democrats in the 2014 elections, since the scandal happened on Obama’s watch.

Pelosi pointed to President George W. Bush, who appointed IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, who served at the agency until November 2012.

“You say it happened on his watch. It happened on the appointment of the head of the IRS, who was appointed by President Bush,” Pelosi said. “His length of stay extended into President Obama’s stay, but I think that that points to the fact that, why is this a politicized issue, because we all are concerned about how the IRS does what it’s supposed to do, supports the law, but does not do it in a selective way.

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