The Obama Administration Scandals Are About To Explode

American Thinker

Scott Varland

The Obama Administration scandals have reached critical mass.  There will be fission and an explosion.  No one can stop it. 

Various commentators have speculated about how the Obama Administration scandals will unfold.  Who will pursue the better strategy:  Democrats or Republicans?  Who will prevail?

Such speculation is beside the point, because the scandals have already reached critical mass.  There will be fission and an explosion.  President Obama may not be removed from office, but his Administration will be wrecked.

Consider just one lawsuit.  On May 20, 2013, a 24 page class action Complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio:  NORCAL TEA PARTY PATRIOTS, ON BEHALF OF ITSELF, ITS MEMBERS, AND THE CLASS IT SEEKS TO REPRESENT, Plaintiff, vs.  THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY, and CURRENT AND FORMER EMPLOYEES OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE IDENTIFIED AS JOHN DOES 1-100, Defendants.  I have presented the title of the Complaint in full for reasons that will become apparent.

The Complaint states that the IRS targeted between 296 and 500 Tea Party organizations and provides details about the targeting that denied tax-exempt status to organizations for up to three years over two campaign cycles.  For example, after the Norcal Tea Party Patriots (Norcal) applied for tax-exempt status, the IRS took no action for 13 months.  Then, in a letter dated January 27, 2012, the IRS demanded that Norcal gather and provide thousands of pieces of information, under penalty of perjury, no later than February 17, 2012.  The IRS did not grant Norcal tax-exempt status until August 2, 2012.  So the IRS slow-walked the Norcal application and also imposed an impossible to meet deadline.  This was not ”horrible customer service” (to quote acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller) provided by a low level bureaucrat.  Rather, the IRS had instituted an outrageous, oppressive, and illegal policy designed to crush the Tea Party.

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