If the Czar were a Tea Party—and trust us, he would show up with Irish whiskey and call it tea—he would be pretty eager to get up in the morning right about now. This IRS scandal is an untapped gold vein for two reasons:

1. Now that the IRS has been caught red-handed cheating on tax exemption status, they will have to approve anything and everything without delay. The number of Tea Party groups will increase by a big margin right in time for 2014, which means money will start flowing to better candidates right in time. Think about it: how many would-be Tea Party organizations had no power to raise funds in 2012 because their applications were held up?
2. Using a trick borrowed from the Left, the Tea Party should create a simplified narrative that the IRS was not simply delaying or obfuscating tax exemption status of conservative organizations in an effort to dissuade them from effective campaigning, but that “The IRS was totally screwing with Republican voters.” An over-simplification to be sure, but still understandable. And this can be powerful leverage: see? The IRS fears the Tea Party to the extent that it will break the law to oppose the Tea Party. So you know we’re making things happen, here. Don’t play for sympathy—go for outrage.

Frankly, this is just the sort of stuff the Tea Party organizations can capitalize on, unlike the Republicans who will find some way to forgive the Democrats on this just before the 2014 elections. The IRS scandal is, quite frankly, all the Tea Party should need to clean clocks in 2014.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.