Let’s say that I had some oversight authority over liberal groups or individuals. Or that I could do things to make life more difficult for those groups. And let’s say that I wrote the right-wing equivalent of what Lois Lerner wrote about conservatives (according to her, we’re apparently a*sholes, crazies, and teRrorists)…
(Via Truth Revolt)
…using my official email address. Two observations about that would inevitably follow:
- Liberal groups would go ballistic, whether or not I was linked to any kind of detrimental activities towards them.
- They would have a point.
I understand that people don’t want to be told that they can’t have the luxury of a private opinion, but: I don’t want IRS personnel to think that they get to have the luxury of a private opinion, especially when it involves people that they may be auditing. And I really, really don’t want that opinion expressed via public property. That’s an irs.gov email account she’s using. My taxes pay to maintain that email account. I’m giving her resources: I expect a basic amount of professionalism in return.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
Meritocracy has proven just as useless at keeping out partisan hacks (no offense, Moe) as patronage did ..
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At least under patronage, you could be guaranteed a new batch of hacks every decade or so.
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Mew
Moe, this kind of attitude is why she thought it was perfectly okay for the power of the IRS to be used as a political weapon.
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This is what many Conservatives really don’t seem to understand. Many people on the left consider us to somehow be inheritenty evil or inhuman, and so they feel justified in using government as a political weapon. They don’t believe using the IRS to target conservatives is wrong, they really don’t, and people need to wake up to that fact.