Even with Obama administration-sanctioned IRS suppression—or with all odds stacked against them—the might of the Tea Party remains inspirationally epic.

The IRS already had its hobnailed big boot down on the tail of hundreds of Tea Party groups at mid-term elections on November 2, 2010, the IRS raid against the Tea Party having kick-started in March of the same year.

With the IRS boot at their throats, the Tea Parties stuck it to the high-riding Obama Democrats, virtually shellacking them in Nov. 2, 2010 mid-term elections.

After telling the story of Mohammed’s boast that he would make the mountain come to him, only to be forced to go to it, Francis Bacon observed, “If the mountains will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain.”

Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen and countless others went to the Muslim world hoping to turn it into another Boston, another London and another Paris. Instead Boston, London and Paris are turning into another Kabul, another Islamabad and another Mogadishu. Mohammed has come to the mountain.

From its earliest history, the United States has been identified as the land of freedom. In 1814, Francis Scott Key touted America as the land of the free and the home of the brave in his poem that later became America’s national anthem, but explaining American freedom has been problematic throughout our nation’s history.

By now we all recognize that the current occupant of the Oval Office is definitely NOT a type “A” personality.

Lois Lerner, director of the IRS tax-exempt organization division that targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny, put in a brief but self-serving appearance before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee yesterday. “I have not done anything wrong,” she insisted in her opening statement.