5 Feet of Fury

‘…do feel free to try that excuse if the IRS asks you to produce any document more than six months old’

Mark Steyn on the Lois Lerner emails — and Watergate’s Rose Mary Woods:

Does anyone think Lois Lerner will rate a barrel-load of novels and parody awards? Most Americans have no idea who she is because, unlike Rose Mary Woods, the media have declined to make her a punchline.

On Saturday, Ms Lerner failed to make the front page of The New York Times – or any other page. Emboldened by the acquiescence of the media’s court eunuchs, American government is on the move, exiting the First World and heading for banana-republic territory, at quite a clip.