Another Brick in the Democrat Wall Falls

Anyone surprised by this Inside Politics piece?

NAACP obstruction
The NAACP is refusing to cooperate with an Internal Revenue Service investigation into whether its chairman made an improper political speech, charging that the timing of the probe was politically motivated, the Associated Press reported.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said in October that the group's tax-exempt status was under review after its chairman, Julian Bond, gave a speech last summer that criticized President Bush on Iraq and domestic issues.
In a letter to the IRS on Thursday, NAACP lawyers said the group will not hand over documents requested in the probe and argued that the IRS followed improper procedure by beginning its exam before the group had filed its 2004 tax return.
"We must conclude that the intention was to chill appropriate voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts, whether conducted by the NAACP or by other organizations that are targeted by similar examinations in the program," they wrote.
Federal law bars the IRS from discussing specifics of tax returns or audits, but IRS spokesman Terry Lemons said that groups being investigated for political activity span the ideological spectrum and that such decisions are made by career civil servants, not political appointees.

Democrat abuse of federal tax exemptions have been a key component in their past stranglehold on electoral power. Whereas the Democrats have had some success in having the tax exemption status of churches and other religious organizations who support Republican candidates pulled (note that the first refuge of Democrat scoundrels is invariably the black churches), this is the first instance I'm aware of where the Republicans have struck back.

It's a hopeful sign.

Now if only we could nail the labor unions for extorting union dues and then using them to buy Democrat politicians.