Federal Governance: The Tale of Two (Ohio) Cities
A chilling note from Mike Walker, Col USMC (retired)
All,
A few weeks ago, the President made an impassioned, reasoned and compelling argument for the good that can be done by a strong federal government during a commencement speech at Ohio State University.
Goodbye, Columbus and hello Cincinnati.
Now, that entire argument has been badly undone by… the strongest domestic arm of the federal government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
This is a tragedy and a disgrace for the IRS, but the real casualty is faith in a strong federal government.
What those people in Cincinnati did was almost certainly criminal (as likely was the dishonest Congressional testimony* and cover-up that began over a year ago).
What is not in question is the fact that they singlehandedly did more to create mistrust between the American people and its government than any group since the Nixon "plumbers."
Mike
*March 2012 sworn testimony given by IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman who stated: "We pride ourselves on being a nonpartisan non-political organization" and in regards to "Tea Party groups" there was "absolutely no targeting." The only possible explanations for his false testimony was that Shulman was ignorantly unprepared (highly unlikely since he answered the "targeting issue" questions while reading from prepared talking points) or he lied or he was lied to by whomever researched, prepared and vetted his talking points or the IRS is a poorly led and under-supervised rogue power unto itself. What a mess.
