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“I think maybe they’re aiming at the middle managers through the low level people.”

I think that is the next step, but nowhere near the end game. I read late last week that there would be two hearings this week on the IRS, closed door I think, and that four or five IRS employees are scheduled for testimony. I will guess that some or all of those testifying this week are the supervisors referred to here.

Since this was not a leak, but an open partial release of edited transcript, I will surmise that its intention is to make it very clear to the middle guys that their underlings have been pointing fingers, being very specific, and are blood vessel popping mad. It puts enormous pressure on the middle managers to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Likely the middle guys will be pointing fingers too. Paz, Thomas, and Lerner are probably not getting much sleep these days.

I hope Ingram eventually gets fingered. That would help this metastasize to Obamacare. Obamacare is still very unpopular, will get even more unpopular as the high costs sink in, and cross-pollenating IRS abuse of power with Obamacare could create a perfect storm (to mix metaphors) in the coming months.

I think the bridge to the White House is also being constructed, but we may only see occasional hints of it for a while.

In any event, as far as I am concerned the real end game is not so much impeachment and prison sentences as it is smaller government and a lower, simpler tax system. Liberty and Constitutional limits to government is a higher priority than impeachment and prison sentences (as much as I would like to see both, where warranted).

Simplifying the tax system to either a flat tax or the Fair Tax Would go a long way to making the government smaller automatically. It would certainly reduce the intrusiveness of the IRS or whatever agency Is created to replace it.

But I think we’ve got to get to the matter of the abuse of executive power first. Obama has corrupted or manipulated every single agency of the government. Those that, for one reason or another, he could not control, he has simply ignored. He has filled the government with extra-congressionally appointed czars who report only to him. He simply ignores legal decisions that attempt to restrict his power.

For our system of checks and balances to work, everyone involved must respect it. We weren’t mentally or legally prepared for a chief executive who, from the very start, did not respect it.

The only good thing is that he acted so blatantly, the bridge to the White House, as you have appropriately called it, may actually be easier to construct. I think it all depends on the will of Congress to go after this. Maybe the usurpation of their powers and the undermining of our system will make them angry enough to pursue it.