Political Chemo
By Mitch Berg
James Taranto puts a solid full-nelson on most of the Democrats’ rationalizations for the IRS scandal. You should read the whole thing.
Money quote:
In his testimony to the Senate Watergate Committee–whose hearings opened 40 years ago today–John Dean famously called that scandal “a cancer on the presidency.” If Obama, his campaign or his White House aides are directly implicated in the IRS’s abuses, this will be another cancer on the presidency, remediable by resignation or impeachment.
But if the IRS acted without direction from above–if it “went rogue” against the Constitution and in support of the party in power–then we are dealing with a cancer on the federal government. That, it seems to us, is a far direr diagnosis, one whose treatment is likely to be radical and risky.
Corrupt President, or corrupt entire government?
Such choices.
May 21st, 2013 at 6:05 am
Link?
May 21st, 2013 at 8:35 am
It stands to reason that if a good portion of the alphabet soup of agencies is corrupt, well, that means that Barack Milhous Obama is, too, because he’s known about this corruption and hasn’t done squat to fix it. It’s worth noting as well that it’s not hard to fix this kind of thing. You put procedures and policies in place, publicize them, and enforce them–with firings and prosecutions if necessary. Just ask anyone who has ever put an ISO program in place. It’s not rocket science.
May 21st, 2013 at 2:05 pm
Rand Paul 2016
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/05/rand-paul-stands-up-against-government-bullying.php
May 21st, 2013 at 10:46 pm
I’m not sure you could “fundamentally transform” our country without being corrupt. The framers did a good job of making sure the country couldn’t be fundamentally transformed, as long as you follow the laws they laid out. But then, given the progress mantra “the ends justify the means” means that breaking the law is ok as long as you can get your agenda enacted.
May 21st, 2013 at 10:48 pm
Ew, badly worded sentence. “Given that the progressives’ mantra is “the ends justify the means”, that means that…”