Your analogy doesn't work very well in that among others, Ted Cruz, senator and presidential candidate, has explicitly called for abolishing the IRS [1], and many on the right believe the the IRS's purpose is basically illegitimate.

I also think the US right is currently so hyperbolic and so inclined to politicize anything that it's hard to say with any confidence that "the scandal is using the intelligence apparatus as a political tool". Many things that would previously been framed as political disagreements are now framed around the president's total illegitimacy. Of the leading US Republican presidential candidates, majorities of their supporters believe that Obama is a Muslim who was not born in the US. [2]

[1] http://www.dailydot.com/politics/ted-cruz-abolish-irs-fair-t...

[2] http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2015/08/trump-suppor...