The just before Christmas report of Darrell Issa’s Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is probably a big disappointment to promoters of the IRS scandal narrative. They won’t admit it and will maintain that the revelation of an IRS employee referring to a Tea Party group as “icky” is shocking, shocking. Still I look at the whole thing as being like the story of the parents who tried to kill their kids excessive optimism by leaving no presents under the Christmas tree and loading his stocking with horseshit. They woke up Christmas morning to a gleeful child running around the house looking for the pony that Santa Claus must have left.
The Issa Committee has over 1.3 million pages and 52 transcribed interviews – a veritable dung heap that could provide fertilizer to a modest farm for years. Still no pony. The pony would be proof of direct White House involvement in the targeting. They have shifted to White House rhetoric inflaming the IRS – kind of like Henry II asking his knights why no one will rid him of the troublesome priest.
I feel bad for Issa and his friends, so as a belated Christmas present, I’m going to give them an imaginary pony in the form of a conversation in the West Wing that should have been taped.
This piece is very funny and informative.