Strassel: White House Ordered the IRS Attack on Tea Party

[Joe Cooper]

Obama is a famously corrupt politician where every aspect of his
political career has been shady at best and outright fraudulent at worst.
His past includes working with borderline criminal groups like ACORN,
suing banks to provide subprime mortgages, running against another
candidate who was forced to withdraw from the race, and other convenient
�events�.

Obama�s style is often written off as �Chicago� politics. It�s not a
secret, it�s not a conspiracy, and it�s a fairly common understanding of
the man. He uses any influence he has to hurt people who go against him �
and he uses his influence to help those who support him. �Green� energy
companies enjoyed this, while the coal industry is struggling to even
stay alive.

In the end, we�ve seen this play out over and over. The IRS attack, the
Benghazi lies, and the AP phone scandal are all just more events proving
the same basic pattern. The best explanation of this I�ve seen comes from
a Wall Street Journal column by Kimberley Strassel, in which she explains
that the IRS has long been used by Obama to target opponents.

Here�s an important example from the column:

Mr. VanderSloot is the Obama target who in 2011 made a sizable
donation to a group supporting Mitt Romney. In April 2012, an Obama
campaign website named and slurred eight Romney donors. It tarred Mr.
VanderSloot as a �wealthy individual� with a �less-than-reputable
record.� Other donors were described as having been �on the wrong side of
the law.�

This was the Obama version of the phone call�put out to every
government investigator (and liberal activist) in the land.

Twelve days later, a man working for a political opposition-
research firm called an Idaho courthouse for Mr. VanderSloot�s divorce
records. In June, the IRS informed Mr. VanderSloot and his wife of an
audit of two years of their taxes. In July, the Department of Labor
informed him of an audit of the guest workers on his Idaho cattle ranch.
In September, the IRS informed him of a second audit, of one of his
businesses. Mr. VanderSloot, who had never been audited before, was
subject to three in the four months after Mr. Obama teed him up for such
scrutiny.

The last of these audits was only concluded in recent weeks. Not
one resulted in a fine or penalty. But Mr. VanderSloot has been waiting
more than 20 months for a sizable refund and estimates his legal bills
are $80,000. That figure doesn�t account for what the president�s
vilification has done to his business and reputation.

The Obama call for scrutiny wasn�t a mistake; it was the
president�s strategy�one pursued throughout 2012.

The Obama strategy is pretty simple. Scare people into being quiet. Scare
people so they won�t challenge you. Then bulldoze over them and acquire
more power. It�s how politics has worked since the dawn of the state, and
Obama is just making good on that fact. This was a great column, and
everyone should read the full text.

This simply wasn�t an isolated incident. People who challenge Obama
routinely are audited out of the blue � it�s simply obvious at this
point. Take this example, which we talked about earlier this week:

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Leftists think and act like protofascists. Control is the key. And
control through fear, threat of force, and rhetorical intimidation
is the modus operandi. (Ben Shapro, "Bullies")