On the IRS Scandal

John Koskinen, Commissioner of the IRS and Face of Arrogant Government

That's right, scandal. I'm pretty fired up about this, and you should be too.  The organization that would insert a red-hot-poker in you for not having dinner receipts from four years ago "discovered" that the hard drive of its Commissioner had been destroyed 10 days after it was subpoenaed by Congress.  The current Commissioner--John Koskinen--has now appeared before two separate House Committees and has arrogantly stonewalled while insisting that the investigation into ADMITTED targeting of political enemies of the President is political in nature.

That he is the Commissioner of the IRS is reason enough to have distaste for Mr. Koskinen.  That he is a strong contributor to Democrats and the Democratic Party is another.  The third strike is his philanthropy at Duke, which could be the biggest reason to despise him.   Whatever your reasons for disliking him, his blatant stonewalling and "see no evil" approach to the loss of these emails is enraging.

While I should have been watching the College World Series, my attention was called to the theater of the absurd going on last night as Mr. Koskinen testified before a House Panel.  Lord grant me Mr. Koskinen's demeanor should I ever be subject to adversarial questioning...I can surely say that.  But at the heart of this matter is the fact that the IRS was not following GOVERNMENT REQUIRED document retention procedures, that it paid out $87M in bonuses and spent $50M in conferences (2010-2012) but did not have the money to backup its email (it printed those it considered to be "official", which apparently none of the 67,000 Lois Lerner emails were).

One of two things is true, and possibly both.  One...there is a coverup that goes to the very heart of the Obama Administration, that the IRS and the Obama Campaign conspired to target/silence Conservative groups and then covered their tracks.  Two...there is a profound ineptitude in modern American government, that it cannot do many simple things right, that such government is increasingly turned to by this administration as the answer to solving big problems and that we are consistently realizing that such government cannot possibly do what it is being asked to do.

The agency charged with a good deal of the enforcement of Obamacare--the IRS--cannot back up its own files.  Let that sink in, friends.

When will the American public wake up to how badly they've been duped?  The video of Democratic lawmakers APOLOGIZING to the Commissioner of the IRS should be part of virtually every RNC ad buy for the next two years.

We have entered some kind of bizzaro-world where the IRS is seen as a victim and an obfuscating bureaucrat is hailed as a hero.  Get your head out of your ass, America.