IRS scandal must be fiction because...

I've been seeing lots of comments on other blogs on roughly the following lines:

A: "I think all this stuff about the IRS targeting conservative organizations is just stuff made up by conservatives to tarnish president Obama.  After all, if it was directed from the top, surely some mid-level employee would spill the truth rather than taking the fall for the higher-ups.  So it doesn't make sense that it's real."

But thinking about that, it seems t' me that no mid-level gov't employee will be willing to come clean because if one does, he'll never get another job in government.  While those who keep silent are very likely to be rewarded in perfectly legal ways, via promotions or plum assignments.

Also there's the fear of one's kids being harmed:  Almost all the schools in DC have large numbers of kids of govt employees, and if word got out that a kid's parent was "anti-Democrat" or "anti-Obama" that would likely lead to some serious harassment.

So I think the only way to get a lower-level employee to 'fess up is to seriously threaten 'em with jail time.  And I don't see enough Repubs having the determination to do that, since it would mark them as "mean."

If only the GOP congresswimps were one-tenth as mean as the MSM portrays 'em to be, this whole problem would be solved pretty quickly.

Oh well.