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April 05, 2004
Executive branch (of the campaign)
What is an honest broker anyway? Is there really such a thing as a non-partisan government official? Why not just let the President run his campaign and the executive branch under the same donor-based funding scheme? Noticed this surreal story today at TNR:
The Treasury tapped civil servants to calculate the cost of Sen. John Kerry's tax plan and then posted the analysis on the Treasury Web site. A federal law bars career government officials from working on political campaigns.[e.g., Kerry's proposal would represent a tax increase of as much as $477 billion on "hardworking individuals and married couples"]
But Pamela Olson, who stepped down as the Bush Treasury's top tax official last month, countered that the Treasury should do even more analyses. "The obligation at the Treasury Department is to advance the president's legislative agenda," which includes making the individual income-tax cuts permanent, she said. "Something that goes in the opposite direction" -- as Mr. Kerry's proposal would -- "would be inconsistent with the president's legislative agenda," she said.
If only George Orwell were alive to see it.
Posted by Mike at April 5, 2004 09:43 PM
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