The IRS’ announcement Monday that it will pay cancelled 2013 bonuses has infuriated Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, who wants to know why an agency with employees who “inappropriately” targeted conservative political groups would reinstate the rewards.

Is Orrin Hatch the only one of the DC Dudes that sees something wrong with this picture?

“The IRS is accused of targeting conservative groups, with many of its employees having conducted themselves in a manner inappropriate for government officials, and the agency decides to reinstate employee bonuses?” asked Hatch, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. “This is outrageous.”

The announcement was made by the new IRS’s Commissioner John Koskinen who said the performance bonuses were reinstated after agency employees “repeatedly asked him about them” during his first weeks on the job and after reaching a deal with the Union for Federal Employees.

Let’s get this right. The employees that were being disciplined and had their bonuses taken away because they went way beyond the call of duty, including breaking the law with their investigation of special interest groups “repeatedly asked about them”?

Being a little hypothetical Mr. Koskinen, what if all of these same employees all asked you for a new Rolls Royce, would you give it to them?

Is the IRS an independent arm of the government that does what they want when they want? I guess so.

The benefits for the vets and so many critical other cuts have been made to people that their lives depend on the finances, the same people that laid down their life on the line for the USA but Mr. Koskinen relented to his people, that broke the law, because they asked about their bonuses? As Warren Hatch said “it is outrageous”.

It is a typical government maneuver; rewarding bad behavior.

I hope the guy that sits in the big chair does something about this financial slap in the face to the American public.

In the meantime maybe he can find a good scarpadeu.