Good news from the TEA Party front

After the TEA Party came on line and significantly contributed to the Democratic ass kicking in 2010, for some reason they have been subject to audits and other harassment from the greatest know terrorist organization in the United States, the IRS (closely followed by the TSA). From this morning's Legal Insurrection some good news.

Tea Parties harassed by IRS form Liberty Defense Foundation

Posted by Anne Sorock
Tea Parties across the country, the recipients of letters from the IRS demanding they produce reams of documents detailing every email, blog post, tweet, radio transcript, Facebook entry, and on, have banded together to share resources in defending their 501c4 applications.

The Liberty Defense Foundation is allowing the disparate groups to share recommendations for accountants and other services the groups will be requiring in order to comply with the demands of the IRS.

Toby Marie Walker of the Waco Tea Party has been instrumental in facilitating the communication between the groups–some so small that they meet only as book groups to read the Constitution and other founding documents. For them, the financial, emotional, and logistical burden of compliance is almost impossible to meet:

“They want to tax political speech,” said Walker. “If we don’t stand up for this who’s next–our churches? Our garden clubs? It’s kind of like McCarthyism–’have you now or have you ever been a supporter of the Tea Party?’”

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) is providing legal counsel to the Tea Parties pro bono. In the meantime, several lawmakers, including Cong. Flores, Renacci, Camp, Jordan, McClintock, and Issa have made multiple demands of their own from the IRS–and put a timetable of 28 days on a response. According to Walker, 28 days is the same amount of time the IRS gave Tea Parties to comply.

Walker added that what they need most at this point ispublic pressure to uncover why the IRS targeted these groups.

Ah, Mr Walker I'll save you asking. The IRS has been harassing the TEA Party because it went after leftist in general and B Hussein Obama in particular. Taking down Nancy Pelosi didn't exactly endear them to the bureaucracy either. But we all know that. Suffice to say please give what you can (I just sent them a small donation, but everything helps). Otherwise things are great here in Houston, the weather's in the 60s and clear and I'm killing off a great book review pending. Have a fantastic weekend!