President Obama on Wednesday demanded and accepted the resignation of the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven T. Miller, as part of a multi-pronged effort to quell controversies that threaten to dominate his second term. The action was Obama’s first substantive step to address a political uproar stemming from the IRS’s disclosure that it had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. It capped a day when the White House tried to dampen two other furors that had put Obama on the defensive — the Justice Department’s seizure of Associated Press phone records and the administration’s editing of talking points about the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, last year. In a brief but fiery evening statement in the East Room of the White House, Obama labeled the IRS’s actions “inexcusable.” Read more http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...ff12b8-bda4-11e2-9b09-1638acc3942e_story.html
