Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
I posted this to an earlier thread but it deserves more thought:<\/p>\n
Have you thought through the implications of your defense, [regular commenter Emery, whom some of the Mitchketeers think is long-banned former comment-section regular “Doug”; I don’t think it’s him, unless he’s been on some serious meds]?<\/p>\n
You suggest IRS agents misused the power of their office for partisan political purposes, not because Obama ordered it, but because he was incompetent to stop them.<\/p>\n
That implies government agents are predisposed to abuse their powers but are restrained only by competent managers, i.e. Republicans.<\/p>\n
The sensible conclusion is to give over as little of our lives to government agents as possible, and in those areas, put Republicans in charge.<\/p>\n
I completely agree with the conclusion that flows from your analysis; I\u2019m surprised you do.<\/p>\n
See also: Fast and Furious, Secret Service hookers, government conventions in Vegas, AP wiretaps . . . the logic could apply to almost every scandal and for the exact same reason: we shouldn’t have given them that power in the first place. The Framers were smarter than we know.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
To this I’d add that this blog has noted that the government and its handmaidens in the media and the lefty “alternative” media have spent the past six years demonizing every form of conservative thought, from fever-swamp leftybloggers chanting “Conservatives are Racist” to Janet Napolitano putting every form of conservative thought on a terror watchlist.<\/p>\n
If you build a government around the notion of demonizing your opponents, your government will demonize your opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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