ABC: Former White House senior adviser and Democratic strategist David Plouffe fought back against assertions from GOP strategist and former Deputy Chief of Staff to George W. Bush Karl Rove that the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups was a political pursuit driven by Democrats.Rove, who co-founded the GOP affiliated outside spending group “American Crossroads,” argued that IRS workers in offices across the country may have taken direction, inadvertently, from top Democrats.