JAMES TARANTO ON OBAMA’S IRS SCANDAL:

It may well be that the administration’s Alinskyite tactics were more beneficial to Obama than we realized when we wrote that column last month. As another reader observes: “The Tea Party caused a huge landslide and then suddenly seemed to go silent, right around the time of this harassment.” Perhaps, contrary to David Plouffe, that was a necessary condition for Obama to win a second term. Either way, it will now define that second term.

Indeed.