obama care. come on, let's drop it. has nothing to do with the sloppy practices of workers in the irs' cincinnati office. still, that hasn't stopped republicans from making the rhetorical link between the two. senator rand paul said this at a tea party yesterday. >> we want to fire some irs agents? why don't we start with the 16,000 irs agents they're goiatg to implement obama care. >> number eight is the definition of a fishing expedition and it's the first time the irs scandal and the obama administration have been linked np it's an attempt to find anything that could be used to undermine the president's greatest legislative accomplishment. the gop-controlled house has voted 37 times to repeal the affordable care act. a useless exercise that house leadership allows to happen to