Well, we should mark this down as a time that Headholio disagrees with Obama.
But the story needs more context. According to the article:
So its not just the Tea Party that was targeted. Educating on the Constitution would lead to IRS scrutiny? I would say they need more justification than that.
But.....
Even more context:
A 501-C4 tax exempt organization can participate in politics, but must have "Social Welfare" as their primary activity.
So you might have thought that Carl Rove's Crossroads group is a right wing political group, but no, its a social welfare group!
So, the IRS needs to scrutinize these groups that are claiming 501-C4 tax exempt status to make sure they are truly Social Welfare groups and not just political groups which should be paying taxes.
So words like "Tea Party" would flag a group as being political and worthy of scrutiny as to their tax exempt status, or so says the IRS.
Doesn't seem like earth shattering news.