I turn you over to Professor Jeffrey ‘Hermeneutics’ Goldstein, Dean Of Outlaws at The American Republic University:
Look. There isn’t anyone with a speck of sense who truly believes this [IRS] scandal was confined to a sub-unit in Cincinnati, and to a pair of previously-punished rogue employees. But like the “spontaneous demonstration to a YouTube video” cover story that the Administration used to buy time on the Benghazi disaster, attempts are being made within the government — and once again, with the help of either a credulous or complicit media invested in Obama and progressivism — to pretend that what is an institutional failing is in fact the work of some shadowy characters acting alone. Sadly, the glory hounds in Congress — in both parties — enjoy using the IRS to harass those who cross them, so the institutional pressure to truly get to the bottom of the scandal isn’t there, particularly if a dozen or so operatives can be sacrificed on the altar of showy justice.
After which, things will return to “normal” — which history shows us is more of the same: a politicization of the IRS that is both institutional and specifically at times directed by Presidents and members of Congress. To that end, I worry about parts of Obama’s statement last evening, particularly where he noted that the rules need to be fixed — which immediately had me concerned that he’d use this scandal to try to figure ways to re-configure the political landscape after Citizens United. [BOB: As an unwise, dickheaded midget once said: "Never let a good crisis go to waste].
But that’s just me being paranoid and unhelpful and Visigothy.
The reason I included the feckless GOP Leadership [aka: the Quislings] under the label ‘The Leftist Pattern’ because they act like Leftists in almost all of their actions — in their concern for maintaining their level of power, in their desire to perpetuate The Leviathan. As Jeff remarks:
…It is the ruling class vs. the rest of us. And we’re going to see that play out here. Scapegoats, fallguys, and prosecutions, without any real attempt to change the culture that routinely over the decades has produced similar scandals. It’s who they are. It’s what they do. And it’s up to us, we, the people, to stop them. Because lord knows they won’t stop themselves.
And, sadly, it’s becoming clearer that the only way we are going to be able to stop them is via the methods employed by The Founding Fathers, IYKWIMAITYD.
And right now… right now… right now it’s time to… kick out the jams, Motherfucker!
