Conspiracy theories and paranoia are great for team building. So the exempt organization group of the IRS, the Cincinnati gang that couldn’t sort straight, has given the Tea Party a great boost. When you think about how miserable the IRS can make your life, having your exempt application stalled doesn’t strike me as being that severe.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
"...the president did not “step in” and remove certification from every Tea Party group. Some low level employees were swamped with applications and thought that people who called themselves a party might be engaging in political activity and were applying for the wrong status. If there was some sort of plot there, it was poorly executed."