Surely you heard, Jay Sekulow and the ACLJ are threatening to take legal action against the IRS for picking on conservative groups. If we follow the logic of the story highlighted yesterday, we can expect income taxes to rise 2% as a consequence. Fortunately, the local daily has since rewritten the story to correct the implicit ergo segue.
Continuing down the path of boring you, here’s more. Local hero Billy Graham and his son Franklin have added their names to the list of the persecuted. Franklin said they had to waste time and money donors had sacrificed to help homeless, starving people in devastated parts of the world on servicing IRS auditors.
“Mr. President, the IRS has already publicly acknowledged it operated in a less than neutral and nonpartisan way,” [Franklin] Graham wrote. “We also now know that the target of their improper actions was much wider than political or Tea Party organizations. Will you take some immediate action to reassure Americans we are not in a new chapter of America’s history — repressive government rule?”
According to the Cato Institute, groups were singled out not only for the use of trendy political hype phrases like “tea party” and “patriot” in their names. They were getting roughed up if their organizations purported to pursue the objectives of “limited government” or “educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.” (Granted, those who educate on need education.)
Political Analysis: It appears the hassling arose as Democrat operatives instigated Republicans to egg on Democrats to do the dirty work so they could get caught. Democrats calculated Republicans would not anticipate the public would perceive the obvious attribution of error to the Democrats as a thinly-veiled coup by the Republican Dirty Tricks Committee. But, since mom never sees who threw the first punch, the Republicans were probably the ones who fooled the instigating Democrat operatives in the first (which was technically the thirty-first) place.
Nondisclaimer: We’re not supposed to get political at the tea-partying, patriotic John Locke Foundation as we advocate for the principles of limited government outlined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. However, if said attitudes are now considered partisan, then one party is unabashedly advocating over-reaching government, higher taxes, and treason.
