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Only two democrats in the house of representatives, again, they have done it before, voted to repeal the healthcare bills and only two democrats voted with them. the breaking news about the woman that was in charge for the irs tea partying targeting is now running the irs obamacare implementation? is that a good choice? >> first of all, this ought to tell you that this certainly reaches up into the white house. does any serious person believe that the top ranking internal revenue service person in charge of implementing obamacare was just casually picked? does anyone think that there was any d...

Backgrounds, many of whom who have never been involved in politics a single day in their lives and they are concerned about their government. they have one concern in common, which is the federal government has gotten too big and too expensive. they want to do something about it and all of a sudden they find themselves the target of government retaliation of the nastiest sort. this ought to scare any of us, regardless of your particular ideology. this ought to bother you because today it's retaliation against a government critic on the right. tomorrow it could be against a government critic on...

That couldn't be substantiated. bill: i think the bigger point, steve, is this. when you're an american citizen and file your taxes with the irs they're the great unknown. >> right. bill: they have all kinds of control and power over you. the president referenced that directly last night in the statement he made 6:30 last evening. >> right. if we think that they have a great power now which certainly they do, they will have even more power of course after the implementation of obamacare when they become really one of the chief enforcement mechanisms for obamacare and all of the regulations tha...

And now we can move on? no. it has to go keeper than that. and -- deeper than that. and to have the acting irs commissioner leave when he was scheduled to leave in two weeks anyway, falling on one sword when there is no sword is meaningless. as doug points out, we've had prominent democrats over several years -- chuck schumer, carl levin -- stirring this pot, encouraging the irs to look at conservative and tea party groups, so you can't say this is somehow a big surprise. the irs is part of the department of treasury. this is all part of the executive branch. martha: right. >> the buck has to ...

The affordable care act. so already owns with americans' financial information, it will also be armed with americans' health information. we spoke to one tea party member who gave up her own quest to form a 501c4 after the irs threaten today examine her private e-mails, twitter accounts. she's deeply concerned about this expansion of irs power. >> my concern is four years after the irs has expanded to police the nation's health care law, how many stories of abuse are going to emerge from this and really, what will be the impact? >> reporter: representative randy forbes, a republican from virgi...