Leftybloggers served up the idea of trying to rat out Bill Donohue – the outspoken Catholic anti-defamation activist with the Catholic League who went a long way toward ensuring Mandy Marcotte’s “resignation” from the Silkypony campaign – to the IRS for alleged violations of non-profit organization tax law.

Learned Foot returns the serve with a 100mph slam to the backhand side.  Foot – an actual lawyer – presents a bit of actual law, showing that Donohue and the Catholic League were well within the League’s mission – and, hence, non-profit tax laws – in attacking Marcotte’s hate-drenched writing.

Foot concludes:

Notably absent from any of these statements – incendiary and rage-flecked as they were – was any mention on how people should vote. If anyone would like to take the leap from the “bad press” Donahue is trying to lay on Edwards for hiring these freaks to intervening into a political campaign, I still have a nice big stack of “independently produced” left-wing campaign literature foisted on me through the mail last year by some 501(c)(3) organizations whose own tax exempt status would be in peril given that same standard.

Oh, but I’m sure those were somehow different.

It always is.

But let’s see how many leftybloggers fall for it, anyway…