Roll Up! Roll Up! The I.R.S. Non-Scandal Moves to Capitol Hill

I hope you had better things to do with your Friday morning that watch the members of the House Ways and Means Committee berating Steven Miller, the acting head of the Internal Revenue Agency, who was recently forced to resign. Even if the unfortunate Miller hadn’t been on the way out the door, the hearing would have largely been a charade—an opportunity for Republicans and Democrats to try and outdo each other in expressing their outrage at an institution that, even in normal times, is roundly loathed. But with President Obama having just fired Miller on Wednesday evening, there wasn’t anyone else in authority for the elected representatives to rail at.

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