In our hyper-partisan politics and media environment, it is not enough to take words at face value. The impulse to make analogies and jump to conclusions while making inferences about the speaker or writer is overwhelming. To be clear:
◼ You don’t have to be a conservative to criticize Obamacare or spying on reporters.◼ Stay Shocked - Peggy Noonan's Blog
◼ You don’t have to want Hillary Clinton knocked out of the 2016 race to want to get to the bottom of Benghazi.
◼ You don’t have to want Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for president to appreciate his proposals for reforming drug laws.
...Again, if what happened at the IRS is not stopped now, it will never stop. The next White House will come in and they’ll know they can do it too. And if they’re unlucky enough to be caught, they’ll have a have a few uncomfortable moments in Congress, and a few people who were going to retire in the summer will retire in the spring. And it will all go on.
We are at a point now where you can make a list of things that, all combined and allowed to continue, can kill America. This is one of them. Widespread belief that the revenue-collecting arm of the US government is hopelessly corrupt is one of them.
There is such a thing as national morale. Ours could use a boost. People have grown cynical. They expect nothing good to happen. They expect it all to be swept under the rug. They expect no one to pay a price. It is a matter of profound public need that the U.S. government show and prove that it is capable of correcting itself, that Leviathan can stop itself.
