IRS Asks for Reading List, Tea Party Group Sends Constitution

ABC News ^ | May 14, 2013 | Abby Phillip, Jeff Zeleny

[rightwingintelligentsia]

When Marion Bower decided to start her tea party organization in 2010, she didn’t know that it would take nearly two years for the Internal Revenue Service to approve her request for tax-exempt status.

The Ohio woman also did not expect that providing information about the books her group read would be part of the application process.

“I was trying to be very cordial, but they wanted copies of unbelievable things,” Bower told ABC News today. “They wanted to know what materials we had discussed at any of our book studies.”

She ultimately sent one of the books, “The Five Thousand Year Leap,” promoted frequently by Glenn Beck, to the IRS official handling her tax-exempt request in Cincinnati. She also sent a paperback copy of the Constitution.

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Benghazi factors in, big time.

IRS trumps AP phone trumps Benghazi. Muddying the waters to ensure mixed media messages resulting in confusion. This must be a Saul Alinsky tactic, for sure.

Most low information voters think Ben Ghazi is the new governor of Dubai, anyway.

[topher]

Obama has come up with his excuse:

But... But... But... My teleprompter failed to tell me of these events. You all know that I only trust my teleprompter. I read my teleprompter before going on my golf outings to find out what is important.

If you can't trust your teleprompter, then who can you trust...

[Iron Munro]

I hope she sent a copy of this to the IRS

[SueRae]

Of course they did. And all the while, the MSM was declaring the Tea Party dead, waning influence, etc.

I hope it all comes back and bites them in the rear.

[sheana]

She should have only sent a copy of the Constitution.

[Wurlitzer]

Drip, drip, drip... what does it take for another Thomas Jefferson moment?

I gather NOTHING will cause the spineless to act so all this is just a waste of time.

Nobody is going to stop fedzilla.

[Big Giant Head]

I suspect that there were an inordinate number of these delay/harass cases in the key 2012 swing states, in order to prevent Tea Party orgs from forming and engaging in GOTV efforts in time for the 2012 election. A deliberate strategy to use the IRS to influence the election.

THAT is an excellent observation.

[Gritty]

... She also sent a paperback copy of the Constitution.

IRS Toady #1: "Here's the package we demanded from that subversive Mrs. Bower. I'll open it..."

IRS Toady #2: "Oh, My GAWD! What's THAT...!!??"

IRS Toady #3: "You empty the building and run for your lives! I'll call the Bomb Squad!!!"

[TBP]

That will only confuse them.

[Bob]

“They wanted to know what materials we had discussed at any of our book studies.”

This is incredible...

This sort of thing should be incredible. With this administration, though, I find it very easily believable. (I don't even want to think about what it would take to surprise me at this point.)

[dancusa]

Angelina Jolie announced that she had her boobs cut off voluntarily to provide interference for Obama.