The IRS Scandal has been dragging on for a solid year now.<\/p>\n
Democrats chant in near-unison “It’s just low-level employees!\u00a0 You have no evidence that it’s tied to the White House!”<\/p>\n
Which brings up two additional questions.<\/p>\n
Gone Rogue<\/strong>: Let’s say that the Democrats are right – that suppressing conservative activist groups (who, without tax exempt status, have their First Amendment rights hobbled by campaign finance laws) is entirely a product of low-ranking IRS officials exercising their own, peculiar, organic biases.\u00a0<\/p>\n That’s the good news? That the IRS is intrinsically politicized and doesn’t need <\/em>orders from above to play political favorites?\u00a0 That it feels perfectly empowered to give de facto <\/em>support to Democrats\u00a0by harassing conservative organizations?\u00a0<\/p>\n Somehow that doesn’t make me feel a whole lot better.<\/p>\n Smokeless Powder<\/strong>:\u00a0 When a cop or prosecutor says about some bit of government intrusion “If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn’t be worried”, we all know we’re talking about a “public servant” who doesn’t really get what America is supposed to be about, and who needs to retire for everyone’s own good.<\/p>\n But I don’t extend that same courtesy to official institutions.\u00a0 Bureaucracies – the DMV, the IRS, Congress, the Pentagon, even the President himself – answer (in theory) to us.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Administration has been stonewalling releasing details about their involvment, or lack of it, for a solid year now.\u00a0<\/p>\n If they have nothing to hide, they’re showing it in a pretty convoluted way.\u00a0 Either they think they can blow this up into a Clinton-Impeachment-style backfire, or…they’re hiding something.<\/p>\n I suggest “both”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The IRS Scandal has been dragging on for a solid year now. Democrats chant in near-unison “It’s just low-level employees!\u00a0 You have no evidence that it’s tied to the White House!” Which brings up two additional questions. Gone Rogue: Let’s say that the Democrats are right – that suppressing conservative activist groups (who, without tax […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43830,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43829\/revisions\/43830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}