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The Meaning of the IRS Scandal: Big Government Loses Control
2013-05-20
[WSJ] Tea party and other groups use social media to spread the news about IRS abuse world-wide.
The theme:
What to make of the political scandals that are dominating the headlines and forcing the Obama administration into Nixonian damage control? Technology is finally doing to big government what it has done to big business, big media and other institutions that once could operate with nearly full control over information. The government is losing the ability to manipulate information to avoid accountability.
We're the Army of Davids, getting inside their OODA loop.
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#10  ...and it wouldn't be a Democratic administration without (two links following) "plausible" and "deniability"....
Posted by: Uncle Phester   2013-05-20 18:21  

#9  It looks like the IRS is completely under control of the corrupt and fraudulent administration.
Posted by: newc   2013-05-20 10:54  

#8  I once told someone back in '09 that now that the Democrats are in power they are going to do in-reality everything they accused Bush of doing.

One of the basic liberal tricks is: If you are going to do something illegal or wrong - first accuse your opponent of doing it. No need to prove it the simple accusation is enough. Then when you get caught doing the exact same thing red-handed you can claim 'well they did it first!' as justification.

I see it time and again - if its not "Bush'es fault" then its "Well Bush did it first!" (See Fast and Furious).
Posted by: CrazyFool   2013-05-20 10:53  

#7  BP, they never think of that. 1 - It's beyond their horizon, 2 - it's unthinkable (remember their reaction to the 2000 election - it was theirs by fiat only to be 'stolen' because there can only be one outcome). Of course in their little hearts, they don't believe in a 'republican' government.

One of the underlying principles of the original Constitution was never give the national government power that you'd never want your political opponent to have over you.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-05-20 10:32  

#6  Best way is for them to know that when it's the republicans turn in government think what they could do in return...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2013-05-20 10:21  

#5  ...but when the balloon goes up, they'll retreat to the spectators' sideline.

Where they will not be safe. There must be no refuge for the Left once the "balloon goes up".
Posted by: Clem Smith5995   2013-05-20 09:34  

#4  That is what my liberal friends and relatives say.

I'm sure a lot are rationalizing that too, but very few will be willing do die to defend that behavior. And it may come to that way too soon. For too many, it's another way of saying 'I don't want to be bothered', but when the balloon goes up, they'll retreat to the spectators' sideline.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-05-20 09:08  

#3  Human behavior hasn't changed in millenniums. The old story of the frog and scorpion, because it's (behavior) in it's [Big Government] nature.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-05-20 09:03  

#2  "Scandal? What scandal? There's no scandal, just the IRS doing its job and preventing political organizations from obtaining incorrect tax-benefical status." That is what my liberal friends and relatives say.
Posted by: Glenmore   2013-05-20 07:37  

#1   "Part of being president is that there's so much beneath you that you can't know because the government is so vast."
- David Axelrod


Then fewer servile, obsequious IRS employees must be the answer? Strange, your congressional apologists are saying "more IRS employees are required to catch these dreadful underling abuses". I am confused..... but not really.

Following WWII Alfried Krupp and his industrial co-defendants [unsuccessfully] argued they no longer had control over their businesses, being overborne by the national government. Over 100,000 forced labor personnel and concentration camp workers were forced upon them by the big government.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-05-20 05:01  

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