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Redstate
The
Obama Scandals Aren’t About Bad
Government, but Big Government
By Senator Mike Lee
May 16, 2013
When
scandal rocks any
administration, its partisan opponents smell blood in the water and
move in to
inflict as much political damage on the president as possible.
Consultants
assure us it’ll “gin up
the base.” It makes headlines. And it’s always easy to kick someone
when he’s
down.
But
for conservatives, especially
in the case of the various scandals enveloping the Obama Administration
this
month, it’s also unwise.
For
these scandals present
conservatives a much greater opportunity than the chance to win a few
news
cycles or claim a few bureaucratic scalps.
The
ballooning Obama scandals –
IRS, HHS, DOJ, EPA – are not really about character or competence, but
the
danger of big government itself.
The
more power any government has,
the more power it will abuse. The more money it spends, the more money
it will
mis-spend. Dysfunction and corruption grow on government like mold on
otherwise
perfectly good bread.
It
has nothing to do with party or
ideology – it has to do with human nature.
This
is one of the fundamental
tenets of conservatism, and one of the hardest to communicate past the
credulous liberalism of the mainstream media. Yet thisweek, the media
and the
Obama Administration are making the case for us.
President
Obama’s political guru
David Axelrod himself said yesterday that, “Part of being president is
there’s
so much beneath you that you can’t know because the government is so
vast.”
James
Madison could not have said
it better himself!
These
scandals shine a light on the
inherent flaw of the progressive ideology: the idea that government can
and
should be trusted with more and more power, because it alone can wield
that
power in the disinterested pursuit of the common good.
This
week, the Obama
administration’s words are being impeached by the administration’s
deeds.
With
the possible exception of the
Benghazi cover-up, all of the recent Obama scandals do not so much
impeach the
president’s character; they indict his worldview.
And
his agenda.
The
president’s entire program is
based on giving more and more power to the same executive branch
agencies
demonstrating themselves this week to either be criminally incompetent
or
tyrannically corrupt...
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the rest of the article at Redstate
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