re: #29 austin_blue

I wouldn’t use the word “bogus”, Charles. “Spun to hell and gone” would be be a better description. The IRS IG’s report, upon which the Prez had obviously been briefed, was damned scathing. All of the 501c4 applications were sent to the IRS Regional Office in Cincinnati and assigned to a single Team. They fucked the dog three ways to Sunday. The Report

docstoc.com

blames it on bad upper management. Just as in the embarrassing AP fuck-up, whoever knew about it and didn’t say “Hey, wait a minute…” should get fired. That’s good policy and good government and we should encourage getting rid of tools and their handlers.

Indeed. Congress should indeed investigate the Hell out of this IRS screw-up, simply because it is the job of Congress to perform such oversight. Just because a political angle was spun hard, doesn’t mean there isn’t a real problem to be solved. It is imperative that at least some of the IRS employees responsible for this stupid mistake be identified and fired. The public doesn’t necessarily need to know their names, but it does have to know the number of people ID’d and the number of such people who were fired.

The IRS must be apolitical, and in this case it wasn’t. That is a problem Congress must do its part to fix.