Peggy Noonan:
"...nothing can damage us more as a nation than what is happening at the Internal
Revenue Service....."
" But this scandal is different and distinctive. The abuse was systemic—from the
sheer number of targets and the extent of each targeting we know many workers
had to be involved, many higher-ups, multiple offices. It was ideological and
partisan—only those presumed to be of one political view were targeted. It has a
single unifying pattern: The most vivid abuses took place in the years leading
up to the president's 2012 re-election effort. And in the end several were
trying to cover it all up, including the head of the IRS, who lied to Congress
about it, and the head of the tax-exempt unit, Lois Lerner, who managed to lie
even in her public acknowledgment of impropriety."
" What does it mean when half the country—literally half the
country—understands that the revenue-gathering arm of its federal
government is politically corrupt, sees them as targets, and will shoot at them
if they try to raise their heads? That is the kind of thing that can kill a
country, letting half its citizens believe that they no longer have full
political rights."
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