When something is so broken and so perverse that it literally compresses of its own weight into a nugget of pure and perfect bureaucratic and political evil, should we really be protesting it?
Or should we just look upon it with wonder and admiration, like a kind of high art?
Since the time high art became fascinated with ugliness as an object of affection, reason, and with it, any concern for beauty in political life went into hiding — so we vote for high art, and receive our rewards.
FoxNews: Top aide to former IRS chief reportedly logged hundreds of White House visits
*** Not only did the former IRS commissioner visit the White House dozens of times during his tenure, but his chief of staff was reportedly making those visits even more frequently.
The Washington Examiner reported Friday that Jonathan M. Davis, the chief of staff for former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, appears to have visited the White House campus up to 310 times between late 2009 and early 2013. Sources told the Examiner that Davis, who had little background in tax policy, largely served as a political aide. ***
With three hundred ten you get egg roll.
Have a kumquat Mr. Shulman.
Some good stuff from Mitch McConnell today (no, really) at AEI, courtesy of DrewM at Ace’s.
I just wish that instead of compressing itself into ever-more concentrated evil, it might actually implode into a singularity from which no bureaucracy could achieve escape velocity. That, or reach some sort of critical mass at which it explodes in an inferno of bureaucratic heat and light.
Funny, I haven’t heard Sen. McConnell has been leading an effort to abolish the IRS. Wonder why that is, given his stalwart attention to the First Amendment problem at hand? Or maybe he’s not as stalwart as advertised?
Wow, you could almost say that public sector union heads are like a senator who votes to give millions of illegals the right to vote for… him!
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Excellent question, taboose.
It’s like they can do anything they want without consequences.
I attended the Tea Party Audit the IRS rally on Wednesday. At one point, one of the Capitol Hill Police up on the front balcony of the Capitol walked across the balcony area carrying a version of an AR-15, waist high, at the ready. I did not see a scope.
So there’s your government’s response to peaceful citizens protesting its violation of the First and Fourth Amendments.
Is this still America?
And somebody in a previous thread posted a link to a Neil Young song. Well fuck Neil Young and all the current quiet silence of CSN&Y —
“It starts when you’re always afraid,
step out of line, the man come
and take you away.
It’s time we stop, children,
what’s that sound”
Everybody look what’s going down”
“In a land that’s known for freedom,
how can such a thing be fair?”
So fuck you guys and your complicity fascist souls.
Excellent question, taboose.
Channeling a geekier version of Truman Capote: “That’s not questioning, it’s a regex.” — he sniffed hautily.
Or maybe he’s not as stalwart as advertised?
Well, grave injustices committed against the American People are a thing, and one well worth giving a speech about to a sympathetic audience. But to suggest legislation and risk poisoning our most holy of institutions, “the comity of the Senate”? That is a bridge too far, my good sir!
I mean, it’s a small miracle to get any of the wretched bastards to even say the right things. To expect them to take action…