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9. You can blame the tax code regulations that actually permit limited campaigning

while maintaining tax exempt status, regardless of whether the groups is liberal or conservative. That fact that a liberal group may have run afoul of the law is irrelevant. If you don't like the law, complain to Congress.

Civil servants do not get to single-out groups because they do not agree with their political positions. There is no ambiguity about the law.

You can say "fuck the teabaggers" as much as you wish, but these groups still have First Amendment rights to hold their views, and cannot be treated differently by the IRS because individual civil servants or the administration find their views objectionable.