TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Megan McArdle:

There’s a growing school of thought among columnists and television pundits which says that the “real” scandal in Washington is not the fact that a government agency investigated people based on their political leanings, but that 501(c)(4)s are multiplying like Typhoid bacteria, allowing anonymous donors to fund unlimited amounts of political speech.   These groups, it is rather tediously explained, should actually have been registered under section 527, which would require them to disclose their donors. A related genre is the column explaining how the real victims here are liberls*, the Obama administration and maybe the American public.

I’m going to stick with “the real scandal is a employees of a government agency using the large powers we have granted them to selectively investigate people based on their political beliefs” and “the real victims are the people who were investigated”, though of course, I think this is also terrible for the American people, because we deserve good government.

“Yes, this happened, and it shouldn’t have, but the real issue here is…”