I wonder how many liberal Democrat party loyalists who are indignantly pointing out that it's not like President Obama specifically called the IRS and told them to go after them right wing Tea Partiers would also insist that Captain Ernest Medina is as much of a war criminal as Lt. Calley or, to use a more recent analogy, hold Bush responsible for the excesses of Abu Ghraib.
Power that can be abused eventually and inevitably will be abused.
Forget it, Jake; it's Chinatown.
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Like Harry Browne said, "The problem is not the abuse of power. The problem is the power to abuse."
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ReplyDelete"Where, one wonders, did "anyone at the IRS that was involved in this" get the idea that it was a good thing to do? Were they just going to drop it on the porch, like a cat bringing home a dead sparrow, and hope they would be praised by He Who Wieldeth the Opener of Cans?"
Both the idea to do it, and the knowledge that there would be quiet praise and/or protection for doing so, that didn't just appear from a vision. But I've heard a bunch of people insisting it did.
The problem with the job of POTUS is in the end of the day you are always responsible for what happens and what your staff does.
ReplyDeleteThe standard was set by an old artillery officer with the buck stops here.
Gerry
Is what the IRS has done that much different than what the other agencies have been doing for years?
ReplyDeleteThe EPA hammers any business that the Greens (Democrat affiliated) deem to be "evil" with regulations (enforced as if they're laws, but NOT voted on by congress)...and everyone just looks the other way.
Dept of Education is gradually mandating what can be taught in schools...and surprise, surprise what can be taught favors the Dem socialist model.
Car dealerships were shut down for no logical reason (except their owners didn't contribute to the right party.
I know there are other examples...but the storm front heading my way has me aching and on pain meds... :-)
Anyway...this IRS scandal is just business as usual in a Socialistic government.
The monster (government) feeds until there is nothing to eat...and then it will collapse and die. Gonna be ugly when that day comes...
All I know is this: I'm losing track on the number of Scandals that are being revealed on a DAILY Basis.
ReplyDeleteYet I'm supposed to believe that ALL of them where cause by "Rogue Minions" w/o any Adult Supervision and/or Knowledge of the Oval Office? ALL of them?
Right. Pull the Other One.
First rule of management: *Everything* is your fault.
ReplyDelete-Hopper, "A Bug's Life".
OK fine, he's not responsible for it, he didn't do it, he didn't know about it.
ReplyDeleteOf course that means he is absolutely, completely, unequivocally too flipping incompetent to run a self serve happy ending massage parlor let alone the U.S. government.
The only thing worse than people seriously putting forth the "it's OK, he's not evil, he's just a moron" excuse are the other morons who find that excuse acceptable.
I think we should start calling it the "Offal Office".
ReplyDeleteOne scandal is stupidity.
ReplyDeleteTwo is coincidence.
Three is malice.
168 is this administration.
To date.
For some strange reason, I think the Dems and the press need to get together for a big musical song and dance number called "It's Okay When We Do It!"
ReplyDeleteThis should include a Busby Berkley number where Obama, Hillary, Holder and the rest tap dance around the various scandals...
man, I think of some strange things early in the morning.
Of course that means he is absolutely, completely, unequivocally too flipping incompetent to run a self serve happy ending massage parlor let alone the U.S. government.
ReplyDeleteNice one duck. :)
Maybe he took the job thinking all he had to do was vote "present".
"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
ReplyDeleteOh wait, wrong ruler...
"Hmm, political targeting of non profit applicants is a crime. So normally I wouldn't do it, but if I do it will really get the President mad at me. So here goes!"
ReplyDeleteIn cases like this, I always remember something from Jimmy Breslin's The Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight. "Kid Sally", an ambitious young Mafiosi, is invited to dinner with The Boss. The Boss spends most of a luxurious two-hour meal complaining about one of his underlings, "Joey". He never tells Kid Sally to kill him, but the message is clear. Kid Sally gets some friends together for a hilariously botched attempt to take Joey for a ride - right up until the moment when the fleeing Joey darts in front of the car just as the wheelman decides it's a good time to use his getaway-driver skills and get away fast. The newspapers say Joey was killed in a hit and run accident, and the cops don't have a clue. Kid Sally is promoted...
ReplyDeleteThat is, a competent criminal--or political--boss does not have to tell his people to commit crimes. He just has to hire people who will figure out what he isn't saying and act on it. And a President has an additional advantage--he appoints the Attorney General, who controls federal criminal prosecutions...
Where the people really lost control of the government is when criminal prosecutions became a government monopoly. If anyone could present evidence to a grand jury, and prosecute government officials if they got an indictment, those officials would be a lot more careful about what they did. And grand jury procedures wouldn't allow a prosecutor to "indict a ham sandwich".
Of course, so far Obama has been smarter about it than, say, Nixon.
DeleteThe other nite a Fox news journalist asked the President if he still had the "juice" to get his agenda thru as Obamacare and Gun Control were falling miserably. Obama responded.."do you thinkk I shouls just pack it up and go home?" Would be nice if he did.
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