Hatch Act? What Hatch Act?

Yeah, we know all about the Obama regime's one-size-fits-all opinion of any who don't worship The One as applied to Beckapalooza.  "Bitter clingers," "economic anxiety," "old, white, angry," blah, blah, blah.  It's the sort of "analysis" that can be read off 3x5 index cards without even getting out of bed, probably with a lot of mumbling and drooling as well.

But Re-Education Oberfuehrer Arne Duncan wasn't sleeping - mumbling and/or drooling, perhaps, though judging from his picture, he probably gave up sleep so he could spend all the rest of his time on teeth-whitening - and he was bound and determined that none of his underlings would sleep in, relax, or otherwise loaf away last Saturday, either:

President Obama’s top education official urged government employees to attend a rally that the Rev'rund Al Sharpton organized to counter a larger conservative event on the Mall.

“ED staff are invited [wink, wink, nudge, nudge] to join Secretary Arne Duncan, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and other leaders on Saturday, August 28, for the ‘Reclaim the Dream’ rally and march,” began an internal e-mail sent to more than 4,000 employees of the Department of Education on Wednesday.

You know what the irony of this is?  If not for this story, I'd have never known there WAS a Sharpton remora to the Beck Great White [Charity!  Charity!] Shark.  And neither would anybody else outside of the four thousand Educrats who were forced "invited" to be there.

Predictably, Sharptontopia was an angry, partisan hatefest, or everything the Left insisted the Restoring Honor rally would be but wasn't.  Because the latter had honor, and the former wouldn't know it from a pile of foot stamps.

Only other thing you need to know about it came from this former DoE program manager:

“It sends a signal that activity on behalf of one side of a political debate is expected within a department. It’s highly inappropriate … even in the absence of a direct threat,” Boaz said. “If we think of a Bush cabinet official sending an e-mail to civil servants asking them to attend a Glenn Beck rally, there would be a lot of outrage over that.”

Outrage?  There'd have been riots.  There'd have been angry congressional hearings.  There'd have been shouts of "THEOCRACY!!!!"  There'd have been an impeachment inquiry.

But this is an OBAMA stooge, and the law doesn't apply to them, because they're on a mission from God(bama), and we must comply.  That the Sinister Minister's (Yeah, that's my nickname for Jesse Jackson, but he and Sharpton are functionally interchangable) "crowd" was a hundred times smaller and compulsory is irrelevant.

Besides, it gave the New Black Panthers and their vow to physically attack the Beckians someplace safe to hide.