My take-a-way from the IRS hearing is that it is mostly bogus. The IRS

[BlueCaliDem]

1. I hope that the next Director at the IRS that President Obama appoints

will rescind the "new version" of the IRS clarification that had been in place since 1959 and restore the qualifications for applying for a 501(c)4 to its original and lawful "exclusively" instead of the mushy "primarily". Had the IRS not changed the law {never thought the IRS was allowed to} under a Republican president, this bogus "scandal" would have never happened.

As Rep McDermott said, the whole reason why there was an influx of Tea Party applications was because of CU and corporations, both foreign and domestic, want to flush the political system with mega-dollars.

Returning to the original law - not the IRS rewriting of it, would cut KochBros at the knees.

501(c)(4):

...organizations are generally civic leagues and other corporations operated exclusively for the promotion of "social welfare", such as civics and civics issues, or local associations of employees with membership limited to a designated company or people in a particular municipality or neighborhood, and with net earnings devoted exclusively to charitable, educational, or recreational purposes.[35] An organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare if it is primarily engaged in promoting the common good and general welfare of the people of the community.[36]

No one . . . and I mean NO ONE can say with a straight face that corporate-backed Tea Party entities are promoting the social welfare of their communities. KochBros and other miscellaneous asswipes like them, just want to hide their donors behind the law.