Knowing everything except the difference between right and wrong

Mark Steyn notes that

the ruling party and the non-partisan bureaucracy seem to be converging.

In August 2010, President Obama began railing publicly against "groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity" (Aug. 9, a speech in Texas) and "shadowy groups with harmless-sounding names" (Aug. 21, radio address).

And whaddayaknow, that self-same month the IRS obligingly issued its first BOLO (Be On the Look-Out) for groups with harmless-sounding names, like "Tea Party," "patriot" and "constitution."

It may be that the strange synchronicity between the president and the permanent bureaucracy is mere happenstance and not, as it might sound to the casual ear, the sinister merging of party and state.

Either way, they need to be pried apart. When the state has the capability to know everything except the difference between right and wrong, it won't end well.