“Are you NOW or have you EVER BEEN a member of the TEA Party?”
The partisan witchhunt that this administration uses the FBI, IRS, and other government entities to engage in is never discussed by the MSM or academics.
After the Democrats lost the Congress in 1994 following their passing the `assault weapons ban’, Slick Willie sicced the IRS on the N.R.A. in revenge, subjecting their headquarters to daily harassment by Federal agents.
IRS agents camped out in NRA offices, harassing employees with constant demands of “Where’s the list!?” of all NRA members. They threatened to bring charges of “obstructing a government investigation” for failing to provide an NRA membership roster. Clinton felt the NRA had cost him his majority and he was determined to get even.
Well, guess what? The NRA hung tough, its attorneys told the IRS to pound sand, and the `investigation’ died when GWB became President.
Obama wants this, Obama demands that, but that pesky Constitution keeps getting in his way. Getting any organization to name names will require a Congressional investigation or naming of a special counsel. He can’t just snap his fingers, he knows that and it angers him.