IRS Fights Tea Party on the Beaches, in the Hills

This seems pretty thuggish:  Apparently in recent years the IRS has targeted Tea Party groups for additional “scrutiny”.

This has been covered everywhere, from local Tea Party groups to National Review Online:

• Cincinnati East Tea Party, “IRS Apologizes for Unfair Tea Party Scrutiny”

• NRO, Kevin Williamson, “The IRS’s Tea-Party Targeting: An apology, but no explanation”

. . . groups with the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their names were improperly targeted for additional levels of tax-status review by the agency. Those actions, she said, were “wrong” and “inappropriate,” but she denied that they were the result of political bias against tea-party groups. When asked how the IRS determined that the actions were not the result of political bias, Ms. Lerner could only say, “That is not how we do things.”