Anyone versed in the ways of Washington should find it
difficult to generate genuine shock over revelations that, for several years,
the Internal Revenue Service singled out, for negative treatment, right of
center political groups seeking tax-exempt status.
Like, duh, government employees wouldn’t be tempted to
target organizations aiming to reduce government spending and threaten their
jobs?
It may not be coincidental that Barack Obama has been
president during the IRS’s seemingly illegal activities. Some might see a conspiracy orchestrated by
the White House to reduce or stymie opposition to Obama’s policies and his
re-election. Possible, but highly
unlikely.
Arrogant though the President and his campaign team may
have been, it is highly unlikely that they would risk the harm which would
ensue if such a role were revealed. If
tempted, they would certainly have recalled the attacks leveled at Richard
Nixon when it became known that IRS audits had been directed at his perceived
“enemies”.
It’s far more likely that Obama partisans within the IRS
simply wanted to help their candidate – they were self-motivated, as it
were.
[There’s a bit of irony here. As anyone who has worked for the Federal
Government knows, its employees are not generally known for their
initiative.]
And there is another factor to consider. Liberals (and it’s surely a given the IRS
wrongdoers were) generally don’t respect conservatives as holding reasonable
political views. Their policies are
considered illegitimate, selfish, greedy, mean and displaying a lack of human
compassion. That being the general
liberal mindset, there can’t be anything wrong in discriminating against
conservatives. They deserve it, don’t they?
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