The Autocrat Accountants
Once government is ensnared in every aspect of life, a bureaucracy grows increasingly capricious.
National Review Online
May 17, 2013 5:00 PM
Speaking at Ohio State University earlier this
month, Barack Obama urged students to pay no attention to those
paranoid types who “incessantly warn of government as nothing more than
some separate, sinister entity.” Oddly enough, in recent days the most
compelling testimony for this view of government has come from the
president himself, who insists with a straight face that he had no idea
that the Internal Revenue Service had spent two years targeting his
political enemies until he “learned about it from the same news reports
that I think most people learned about this.” Like you, all he knows is
what he reads in the papers.
Which is odd, because his Justice
Department is bugging those same papers, so you’d think he’d at least
get a bit of a heads-up.
