Executive Orders

In the IRS scandal and others, Washington and the media are obsessed with the question: What did the president know and when did he know it?  That misses the point—Mr. Obama's presidency is much more damaging to the nation than the mistakes of subordinates now coming to light.Most recently, we learn President Obama met with anti-Tea Party IRS Union President Colleen Kelley just before the tax agency began targeting conservative groups. Is that the smoking gun? Was the president in on the plan to harass opponents of big government?Through labor-management forums, the union has a lot to say about how the IRS is run, but I doubt a transcript of the meeting, if we could get one, would prove the two presidents directly conspired to use IRS powers to target conservative groups. Instead, it would likely show they were in concert on the need to defeat the GOP in 2012, and countering the Tea Party's influence was important.However, the union solicits contributions from members to campaign again...

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