I got a kick our of Axelrod’s plaintive whine that the government was just too big for Obama to know what was going on in all parts of the vast bureaucracy. Obama probably didn’t have direct knowledge of what they were doing, but he clearly set the tone and general directions. From lecturing the Supreme Court on Citizens United in the middle of the State of the Union Speech (The man has no manners) to daily complaints about Republicans holding back his good works. He is apparently little involved in the actual work of governing, or ‘presidenting’. He likes the trappings and the adoration.

I think we err when we assume that Democrats want Big Government. Big Government is just the natural result of their intense desire to fix things. Sure that they and their friends are smarter and wiser than the rest of us, and confronted with a world that is so annoying, they busily set about trying to fix the annoyances. People are fat— put nutritional information on everything, Ban tobacco, Ban soft drinks, ban standard light bulbs, generate energy from free wind and solar, get us out of unpleasant wars, shut Guantanamo. Because they are uninterested in studies, data and investigation, nor in consequences and incentives, their bright ideas seldom work, and most of them are dreadful, costly flops. LBJ’s War on Poverty is the easiest example. $15 trillion, and now the highest number of people dependent on the government in history.

So we need some clear laws that define an ethical IRS, with penalties attached. Call your Congressman.

The other laugh that I got from his testimony was that none of this was “political”. Right. My guess is he got the talking points from last week when it was still just some “low-level staffers” and he completely missed the part where the IRS ADMITTED that they had been targeting conservative groups, admitted that they knew, and then (quietly… they hope no one pays attention) admitted that they withheld this information until after the election of a president that promised to expand their agency and functions.

I still don’t think that Obama or his campaign had direct knowledge of what they were doing (“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”), but I do think that the statements and actions of Obama led to the atmosphere where people in the IRS and other areas of government thought that this would be acceptable.

Count me as one of those who believes this really does anger Obama… but only because it serves as a counterpoint and a refutation of his “bigger government is better government” argument.

This, along with everything else that’s going on (with more in the pipeline, so I am told) has caused some to wonder if Obama’s “credibility” has problems. And that’s just wrong to do. If you don’t have a car, do you wonder if your car has problems? No. Obama’s isn’t having problems with his credibility. His problem is that he has none.

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The words that tradition says were spoken by Henry II that supposedly led to the assassination of Thomas Becket.

Obama is constantly “outraged” at the “inappropriate actions”, and swears that he’s going to get to the bottom of it all. And he knew nothing about any of it. Nothing! (sometimes I’m convinced we elected Sgt. Schultz (from “Hogan’s Heroes”) as president)

Even if I were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt (which I am not) that he had no idea that any of this was going on, are we to think that this “smartest man in the room” wouldn’t recognize that behavior like this always comes from the example given by those at the top? That his overheated rhetoric would cause some to justify bad behavior?

“Get out there and punish your enemies”.

Obama has kept trying through his years as president to compare himself favorably to other presidents. He usually comes up wanting. Now he’s acting like Nixon, and might even be better at it. Nixon had “enemies”. And Nixon claimed that he knew nothing as well.