Are we Germany circa-May 1933?

The parallels between Feb-2013 through now—and Feb-1933 through May-1933—are frightening.

It seems that Jesus took note of who was a tax collector and was willing to forgive them, on the premise that they were sinners who obviously needed to repent of their many crimes against their fellow man.

That was His premise every time ILC. Remember the adulterous woman at the well, which “progressives” love to cite as evidence that we shouldn’t judge because of the famous quote “Let him who is without sin cast the first sin?” He then turned to the woman He had just saved, and forgave her, telling her “Go. And SIN NO MORE.” (They conveniently leave that part out.)

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LOL. Root out corrupt practices and cronyism? Why would Obama do that? He was a direct and frequent beneficiary of corrupt practices and cronyism. In fact, that is how he made his career in Chicago, such as it was. And the same is even more true for Obama’s wife Michelle, who owes her entire job history (with the possible exception for a couple of years in her one and only job as a lawyer) to Valerie Jarrett, corrupt Chicago slumlord and political fixer. And both Obamas owe convicted felon/political fixer Tony Rezko, for helping them secure a sweetheart deal for their Chicago house (and the adjoining lot, which was essentially a gift from Rezko).

Not only was Obama not the “reformer” he claimed to be, he may be one of the most corrupt individuals ever to hold the office of U.S. president.

That was in 2009. What made them vote for him in 2012, aside from a pack of lies and media obfuscation of his every filthy crime and pitiful inadequacy, I cannot say.

Think of Obama as a child who has never been told no or had to deal with the consequences of his decisions for his entire life, and you will immediately understand clearly.

Obama does not understand the consequences of lying because he has never had to face them. For example, does anyone seriously believe Obama’s grandparents were comfortable with his “Choom Gang” antics, or were willingly giving him money to buy pot? But remember, these were the people who had raised Obama’s mother with exactly zero sense of values or common sense, and it’s doubtful that they were any great improvement on their grandchild.

Hence Obama says things that are incomprehensible to people who have some fixed star in their firmament. Obama simply says whatever he needs to say to get out of the situation he is in and can, without any mental or ethical issue, say the exact opposite ten minutes later.

It has always worked for him. And it continues to work because the Obamamedia is willing to cover for his lies to get what they want.

Once you realize that Obama really has no concept of right, wrong, truth, or falsehood, and instead simply does and says whatever he wants to in order to get whatever he wants at a given time, you don’t need to invent shadowy cabals or conspiracies; you just need to see it as an extraordinarily-twisted and destructive ideology.

Libs 2013: “Obama isn’t responsible for the scandals because he didn’t know what was going on in his Government.”

Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS executive in charge of the tax exempt division in 2010 when it began targeting conservative Tea Party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harassment, got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012.

More recently, Ingram was promoted…

Ingram received a $7,000 bonus in 2009, according to data obtained by The Washington Examiner from the IRS, then a $34,440 bonus in 2010, $35,400 in 2011 and $26,550 last year, for a total of $103,390. Her annual salary went from $172,500 to $177,000 during the same period.

The 2010, 2011 and 2012 bonuses were awarded during the period when IRS harassment of the conservative groups was most intense. The newspaper obtained the data via a Freedom of Information Act request…

Bonuses as large as those awarded to Ingram typically require presidential approval…“If the recommended award is over $25,000, the Director of OPM reviews the nomination and forwards his/her recommendation to the President for approval,” according to the OPM guidance…

But the fact remains that taxation is theft. The only excuse for it, morally, is if it is both (1) voted democratically, and (2) kept light. Our Founding Fathers revolted over vastly smaller taxes than we have today.

With the kind of heavy taxation that the Roman empire and modern America have in common, I see little moral difference if the tax collector carries out the thefts for themselves, or instead for the government who pays for the collector’s trouble with handsome bonuses, post-retirement sinecures or consulting fees, etc., as enjoyed by our top tax collectors.

I am willing to say our “top” collectors, because I am sure that within the IRS, there are many honest and decent mid-level professionals like your aunt.

Nonetheless, taxation is: taking from people by force. That hasn’t changed in the last 2000 years. I see little moral difference if the tax collector applies physical force to people directly on his ‘collection’ rounds, or if instead he sits in an air-conditioned office in suit-and-tie and orders the bank to do collections for him. (And/or faces a neatly terrified citizenry who will mostly pay on their own.)

And now we see that our tax collectors violate the foundations of our democracy, by blocking or at least discouraging participation from the ‘wrong’ political viewpoints. I am glad you’re mad about it. Thank you for being mad about it. Everyone should be.

Yeah, Candy, it could just be a total coincidence that the actions of the IRS aligned perfectly with the goals of the Obama campaign.

Now, get back to the all-you-can-eat buffet, you leftist cow.

First off – why should we even care what these libtards think? Does anyone honestly believe you should take advice from the enemy? (And yes, the DNC is the enemy. Period.)

Second – if the Dhimmicrats are telling the GOP “not to run with it,” it means that (a) they are scared as the dickens that something else will erupt and (b) they know it will cause them to lose big in next year’s mid-term elections if we keep up the pressure.

If you’re not catching any flack, then you’re not over the target.

Peter’s memo to the GOP: Grow a pair. Quickly.

Regards,
Peter H.

Unfortunately, race is the reason why SnObama won’t ever get impeached. Both the black racist Dhimmicrats and those in the State-Run Media will never let the “first black president” ever get impeached. And watch – they will try to rehab his image in 2017 the likes of which you have never seen before.

We are so screwed.

Regards,
Peter H.

Thing is, I don’t think Obama is really in charge. I believe the Democrats have built some sort of politburo somewhere that is setting the tone of things and clearing decisions through a political lens and not from the position of running a government.

Obama and Holder know nothing about Fast and Furious or AP record confiscation. Obama and Hillary know nothing about Benghazi. Obama knows nothing about the IRS scandal or the coming EPA scandal. Nobody knows anything about anything. They are coming off like they are completely incompetent. But if you buy that, exactly who IS coordinating all of these decisions? You can’t be completely incompetent yet be so consistent on so many ways across so many different parts of the government.

It seems to me that they have quite possibly set up a government within a government of political operatives who are setting the tone on policy decisions. I believe that for the AP confiscation, Obama was advised to spike that football by someone else. I also believe that when that was foiled by the AP going public with the story hours before Obama was to do it, that same group advised DoJ to confiscate the records and retaliate against the leakers. A simple way to tell if that holds water is to look at when the confiscation was ordered. Was it ordered before AP released the story or after? If they were concerned about the leak, they would have ordered the records be obtained when they first learned that the AP had the story. If they were concerned about the political ramifications, they would have ordered the confiscation when AP published the story.

The Benghazi talking points follows the same patter. Who was really looking over the shoulders of the government operators involved? Do we have political operatives who aren’t subject to the same transparency laws calling the shots?

http://www.therightscoop.com/judge-jeanine-pirro-rips-the-obama-administration-in-another-fantastic-monologue/

I would say that the difference between IRS agents and the tax collectors of Jesus’ time was that the ancient tax collectors were basically able to defraud people by demanding more than was owed the government and personally enriching themselves enough to be conspicuously wealthy. We can complain—as I do—about excessive benefits to government employees, but IRS agents are not able to personally enrich themselves the same was as Zacchaeus could. You could say that they join what clearly is to me a corrupt system that abuses its power, but I don’t think that makes them personally corrupt in the same way the ancient tax collectors were.

My aunt recently retired from the IRS. Since then, she has moved back to Minnesota to take care of my grandma, who has mid-stage Alzheimer’s. She is a person of immense love and character, and I think most IRS agents are basically this way, even if they might not quite rise to the level of my aunt.

This may make it sound as if I’m minimizing the IRS scandal. I’m not. I’m actually fuming mad about it and want to see the investigations leave no stone unturned until we have all the answers and know who was responsible. And it does appear to me that a number of IRS employees at various levels were indeed utterly corrupt. As for the Obama administration, I’ll wait to see what the investigations turn up although it would be an understatement to say I don’t trust that they are at all innocent. I do hope though that we as conservatives can separate our appropriate indignation for the IRS and other dysfunctional, corrupt, and bloated bureaucratic government agencies and for the Obama administration from our feelings for decent individuals who happen to work for agencies like the IRS.