How The Game Is Played

When it is the privilege of the other side to make the rules, it is incumbent on the underdogs to understand those rules and use them to the most favorable extent possible. When it becomes apparent that your Tea Party group is going to be bogged down in IRS red tape with the chilling threats of even more IRS attention, the solution is to adopt the protective coloration of the other side:

In 2011 Conservative watchdog group Media Trackers filed with the IRS to achieve nonprofit status. The application got stuck in Obama-induced IRS limbo. In 2012 the same group changed its name and filed again with the IRS as “Greenhouse Solutions.” They were granted nonprofit status in 3 weeks.

I especially like the use of the word 'greenhouse' as it distracts the government drones at the Ministry of Truth from the actual orientation of the group, and carries the implication that your groups objectives can be more effectively carried out beneath a protective shelter.

Perhaps if the Tea Party organizations began to adopt the Liberty tree as logo and called themselves the Green Tree Party, "Our motto: Watering the Tree", they could get tax-free status in no time at all and vote the bastards out before they caught on.