Several GOP lawmakers questioned the wisdom of allowing SarahHall Ingram, who formerly oversaw tax-exempt organizations the heart of the current controversy to run the IRS office in charge of compliance with the 2010 health-care overhaul.
But it also shows that rejection of the Republican brand has only accelerated since the conservative caricatures of Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin -- and the town hall protesters -- became the most prominent public faces of their party.