James Taranto puts a solid full-nelson on most of the Democrats’ rationalizations for the IRS scandal. \u00a0You should read the whole thing.<\/p>\n
Money quote:<\/p>\n
In his testimony to the Senate Watergate Committee–whose hearings opened 40 years ago today–John Dean famously called that scandal “a cancer on the presidency.” If Obama, his campaign or his White House aides are directly implicated in the IRS’s abuses, this will be another cancer on the presidency, remediable by resignation or impeachment.<\/p>\n
But if the IRS acted without direction from above–if it “went rogue” against the Constitution and in support of the party in power–then we are dealing with a cancer on the federal government. That, it seems to us, is a far direr diagnosis, one whose treatment is likely to be radical and risky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Corrupt President, or corrupt entire government?<\/p>\n
Such choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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