Outstanding article. Thanks for posting.
Fascism full Monty. Yep. Last straw. Problem is, we’re in tyranny. That means, only if our reps stand up and back up what Rush, Hannity, etc. are saying, we are left with the same crap.
Remember, these are the folks who allowed 0bamacare to pass. Anyone at their local radio listen to their rep being interviewed by the local conservative host? I have in Cincy, and, I must say, I am not hearing anything organized behind the scenes to stop any of this and get impeachment rolling. This is Nixonx100...anyone saying that? Nope.
The IRS wench should give us a picture of the brazenness with which 0bama and the Jarrett/Ayers machine feels they can operate.
A tree fell in the woods...
The Tea Party movement shook Democrats to the core. It got to the point that Congressmen and Senators wouldn’t even hold town hall meetings with their constituents because they didn’t want to face the Tea Party crowd challenging them on Obamacare and porkulus.
Finally, there was a conservative movement with the energy and resources to counter balance the union influence.
Couple with rise of the Tea Party with the rise of conservative media and Democrats were very concerned.
The Citizen’s United decision, which struck down major tenets of McCain-Feingold) was the nail in the coffin. 2010 was a bloodbath for Democrats. They had to do something big and something quickly.
There were two courses of action for Democrats to take to thwart conservative special interests. 1) Demonize the Tea Party movement (inc. Tea Party supported candidates) and 2) sic the IRS on it.
Both of those actions were successful and the reason why 2012 was so successful for Democrats.
In short, not only do we have charges of illegal disclosure and illegal acquisition of tax filing information, but also racketeering under RICO statutes and possible election fraud--all on a MASSIVE scale. 
This is the type of thing that could land whoever is convicted at least 15-20 years in Leavenworth.
She’s absolutely right. All FR’s should subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. It doesn’t have local news, but its coverage of national and foreign news is unsurpassed. Plus dems hate it.
This IRS scandal is no different than Obama’s very first foray in politics. He accessed divorce files on his opponent and used them against him. He’s a Chicago thug using those thug tactics on a National level. IMHO, those first election tactics should be continuously brought up to establish his MO.
If it was just Obama corrupting the IRS we could solve that in the next election.
The problem is much much worse. The BIGGEST scandal in the US is the US Tax code. It needs to be scrapped and replaceed completely.
If your response to that is It’ll never happen than you should start scoping out alternative countries to live in right now.
“”He put a target on our backs, and he’s now going to blame the people who are shooting at us?”
Using free speech to say you hate conservatives is not the same thing as shooting them or auditing them. So that’s a ridiculous analogy. I don’t recall obama focusing on tax-exempt status. He just trashed conservative groups as we trash liberal groups. Politics.
We still may have an article of impeachment against him since he oversaw the IRS and is ultimately responsible and there may be evidence linking him to these crimes. But it won’t be because of his routine political speech against conservative groups and rich people.
Little Friday research project, for anyone who might be interested ( as I am ) and has the time.
There was a similar IRS scandal during the Clinton years. Tapered off, maybe overshadowed by Lewinsky ( or the gvt shutdown in the first term) At the time the IRS said that Conservative groups were being targeted only because IRS agents were picking out targets from groups named in the press. Since Conservative groups got more press coverage, they’d naturally end up being targeted more ...