IRS Duplicity

The Washington Times reports that an Internal Revenue Service employee was suspended by the IRS for 100 days for using his job at the agency’s help line to try to convince callers to vote for President Obama,
An excellent political move on the part of the IRS! In so doing, the IRS is saying, “See how clean and fair we are?” Notice that the employee was not fired. He was only given a 3 ½-month suspension, and even though it doesn’t say so, the chances are that he continues to receive his salary.
But the key point is that in the overall context of the IRS being non-political, that is a drop in the bucket compared to recent information that Lois Lerner had told IRS employees to give no information to Congress.
Remember that Congress is the boss. It set up the IRS and has an Oversight Committee to assure that the IRS is continuing to do the job as Congress had originally requested. When Congress is shut off from information from their employees, the IRS is an obviously autocratic operation.
IRS, who are you trying to fool with a 3 ½-month suspension of a single employee; yourself, the public, or Congress?