The IRS Reflects Obama's Values

The reason the IRS scandal has big, strong, long legs aside from the inconvenient fact that it cannot be denied is that it is in keeping with this administration's blatant disregard for the constitution, statuary law and common decency. The shoe fits. When the president wanted to take down Gaddafi, the constitution be damned. He had the authority and a docile Senate to run cover for him so his critics can go straight to hell because he is commander-in-chief. Suck it up and get over it. The same is true of his interpretation of prosecutorial discretion when he announced, and the critics be damned, he would not enforce immigration law. He allowed his surrogates to defame Mitt Romney by suggesting that somehow he had caused the death of an unfortunate woman whose husband used her death as his claim to the infamy in a manner similar to weasely tort lawyers who troll for cancer victims on cable television 24/7.
That sad fact is that the despicable behavior of the IRS is exactly what the public has come to expect from this narcissistic man child. In the end Barack Obama has crippled the IRS far beyond anything Grover Norquist would have done on his meanest day. Under the best of circumstances no politician is going to spend more than two minutes praising the IRS but now even the perfunctory bs about the hard working men and women who work tirelessly bla, bla, might be going to far as election day nears. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and the entire Tea Party caucus could never begin to fire up the Republican base the way Lois Lerner has. Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson confined their respective IRS vendettas to a few selected well healed targets. The Obama IRS took on a huge segment of the voting population and when the next poll reveals a horrendous enthusiasm gap among partisan voters the Obama IRS can take a bow.
Every facet of the Obama administration reeks of partisanship from food stamps to Obamaphones; from contraceptive mandates to SEAL team 6. Nothing is ever done because it is the proper thing to do. It is done because it is the political thing to do. The Tea Party has been demonized by the Dept of Homeland Security, by the once Speaker of the House, and by the Obama sycophants in the media. There were violated by the IRS because the IRS thought they deserved to be violated.
Turning to the IRS, supposedly the revelation of criminality was made to sooth the sting of an upcoming inspector general report. Here one has to wonder what sort of IG cannot not keep his report confidential until its release. AP has a partial copy as does the Washington Post as does FoxNews as does everyone else on the web save Post Obotomy Syndrome. What is up? Do grand jury indictments find their way into print? What sort of agency should be trusted with any personal information when its own inspector general can't keep a confidence? Snooping around the IRS's web site reveals that it was in the process of making changes in its top personal. Just two days before Lois Lerner dropped her bomb the agency filled two vacancies. This may well be coincidental but when the division responsible for the malfeasance replace people prior to announcing wrong doing it invites suspicion. ( I suppose we could call Lois and ask her being that the web site gives us her phone number which is more forthcoming than say, the EPA which deal in aliases such Richard Windsor who gets confidential email).

IR-2013-47, May 8, 2013 WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today announced the selection of Joseph H. Grant as commissioner of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division and Sheldon Kay as Chief of Appeals. “Joseph and Shelly are strong leaders who will provide strong leadership and continuity in these critical parts of the IRS,” said Steven T. Miller, Acting IRS Commissioner. Grant has served as the TE/GE Deputy Director since 2007. As TE/GE Commissioner, Grant will oversee the administration of tax law relating to employee plans, tax-exempt organizations and various government entities. TE/GE serves approximately 3 million organizations. Grant originally joined the IRS in August 2005 as director of the Employee Plans Rulings & Agreements division. Before that, he was Chief Operating Officer and a Deputy Executive Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). Grant also served on the staff of the Oversight and Social Security subcommittees of the House Ways and Means Committee.

So Lois got a new boss just two days prior to her astounding admission that her agency had it in for the Tea Party but that was in no way due to any political or partisan rationale, and they were all very sorry so lets move on? Add in the fact that the AP is reporting from the leaked IG report that said "Senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011. Furthermore add in the fact one of the "Senior Internal Revenue Service officials" is a former Democratic Senate staffer who delves in partisan politics and one can see a lot of coincidences.
The intrigue at the IRS will eventually unfold for all to see with or without the aid of its loose tongued IG. What we will see is an agency that felt it could break they law because the president sees no wrong in breaking the law as long as it's expedient.