Prometheus 6

Protecting Civil Servants
Using career employees at the US Treasury to calculate the potential costs of John Kerry's tax plan was an unfair use of presidential power.
The Bush administration should not have allowed civil servants to be used for such a political purpose, even for simple number-crunching.

The request for the analysis actually came from House majority leader Tom Delay. Both Mr. Delay and the political appointees at Treasury should have known that the better and normal place to have such work done is the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. The two political parties regularly use staff experts on the committee to find holes in each other's proposals.