Will the IRS and AP scandals distract from President Obama\u2019s agenda?<\/p>\n
The White House is reassuring its supporters that the flood of scandals won\u2019t deter the president from pursuing an aggressive second term agenda. In truth, the scandals are more than a distraction \u2013 they are a direct warning against implementing Obama\u2019s Big Government vision.<\/p>\n
Prior to Trifecta-gate \u2013 Benghazi, IRS, and AP \u2013 Obamabots in government and media reacted to any pushback to their expansionist agenda of Washington power with dire warnings of a government-less world.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the reasons I was opposed to these (sequester) cuts is because . . . they cut into muscle and into bone \u2014 like research and development. . . creating all kinds of spinoffs that create good jobs and good wages,\u201d scared President Obama at Argonne University last month over a mere 2 percent cut in a $3.8 trillion budget.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sequester could also cost this country \u2013 and humankind \u2013 a cure for AIDS or Parkinson\u2019s disease or cancer,\u201d warned Harry Reid on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n
Small government meant planes falling out of the skies, unpaid teachers, unemplyment. Now, the narrative has flipped.<\/p>\n
The scandals have exposed Big Brother unleashed.<\/p>\n
You want bigger government? How about the Justice Department taping AP phones? How about the IRS snooping into every corner of your non-profit? How about the IRS expanding into your health records to enforce Obamacare\u2019s individual mandate?<\/p>\n
Obama\u2019s agenda \u2013 cap and trade, Obamacare, more spending \u2013 is about expanding Washington\u2019s power into Americans\u2019 lives. The scandals are a cautionary tale of what that means for civil liberties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Will the IRS and AP scandals distract from President Obama\u2019s agenda? The White House is reassuring its supporters that the flood of scandals won\u2019t deter the president from pursuing an aggressive second term agenda. In truth, the scandals are more than a distraction \u2013 they are a direct warning against implementing Obama\u2019s Big Government vision. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12983,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982\/revisions\/12983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}