LOL!! Do you think if Sarah or Newt where in the WH - the IRS would feel empowered to do this?
Think - the fish rots from the head. It has his stinky initials/BO on ALL of it.
Even if Sarah were in the White House, the Federal bureaucracy would still be ideologically leftist - and most would hate her and probably try to hinder her decisions. I agree that fewer would misbehave, but my point is, the ideology of the majority of Federal workers, especially in DC but in other regional offices as well, is already established. The environment under Obama is indeed more permissive, but they do not need direction from above to act on their ideology.