It is not up to the IRS to determine beforehand if group is political or if it is not. They are supposed to assume requests are made in good faith. So de facto, the IRS was specifically picking out conservative groups and delaying, bulling and intimidating them. It was a violation of Americans' civil liberties. This is unquestionably an abuse of power and impeachable act. Obama wanted to use the IRS and other branches of government, as well as widespread cheating by the Democrat Party to steal the election. Oh so they are supposed to just accept things on good faith? Why do they have auditors? Why do they have investigators? Why even have rules? No they are not supposed to just accept anything on good faith, hence the application, hence the whole process. I know you cannot accept that he won, narrow margin and all, Obama won and so the election was stolen. Sorry you ran an asshole who lost. Try a better candidate next time. Try not excluding Hispanics and women through your rhetoric and legislation, they do vote.