"It’s a familiar libertarian insight that regulation often holds government itself to lower standards than it does private actors. Pension funds for public employees are mostly immune from the federal solvency and funding requirements that apply to their private counterparts; Federal Trade Commission rules against false advertising by private companies do not restrain false advertising by government actors on the same topics; the FTC can fine companies massively for data breaches even as the federal government itself suffers gigantic losses of sensitive data to foreign actors with few, if any, visible career consequences for those who had dozed; anticompetitive practices per se illegal under antitrust law become legal when the states engage in them, and so on and so forth."...
This is my biggest peeve when it comes to the federal government. There is almost zero accountability for anything unless of course one happens to be a whistleblower, then you can get fired. I'm sure the government gets a pass by enviros for the same reason Al Gore gets a pass for having a carbon footprint the size of Texas.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
