Columnist Molly Ivins and the Democrats are outraged about the proposal by Republicans to change the law to allow access to IRS returns by the chairman of the Appropriations Committee.

Apparently she prefers the method used by the Clintons in information gathering: illegality. It was they who gathered 900 FBI files of their political opponents to be conveniently perused in the comfort their White House digs.

Richard Hepworth

Millinocket