The Grounding of Big Government

Breitbart.Com ^ | May 31, 2013 | Greg Gutfeld

[PJ-Comix]

You remember near the end of the Monty Python flick, The Meaning of Life-- that scene featuring Mr. Creasote? He’s the morbidly obese freak who gorges on food, until finally, after eating a mint offered by the waiter, completely explodes, sending his guts in all directions.

I was a senior in high school when I saw it, and I remember it clearly. I skipped dinner that night.

And I remember the scene now, as I’ve watched this IRS scandal unfold. I keep thinking about that mint, and that this scandal is that mint.

[PJ-Comix]

Remember, it was just recently when liberals like Piers Morgan scoffed at the notion that the federal government could ever become tyrannical.

[jsanders2001]

Who takes anything Piers says seriously or as credible anymore? Really...he’s an entertainer nothing more and he oesnt even do a good job at that.

[Democrat_media]

The IRS stole the 2012 election for Obama and the democrats/socialists in the Senate.Obama ordered his IRS to rig the election shut down tea party groups and donors to Republicans .And that’s exactly what the IRS did . This big eared socialist would not be now signing UN arms treaties that take away our 2nd amendment right if it had not gotten the IRS, FBI , DHS, DOJ , dept of labor etc to rig the election. We no longer live in a free country. We don’t have free nor valid elections in the USA anymore. the MSM pulled a coup in 2008. We now live in Venezuela.

[Gen.Blather]

Sorry. The author is speaking of fantasy. Big government can chop up babies and eat them on TV. It’s here to stay. We won’t easily be rid of any major department. We still have the Rural Electrification Board. Ronald Reagan was right. The closest thing to immortality is a government (agency or program.)

[PJ-Comix]

Just one THIN MINT.

[Hardraade]

Keeping President Obscenity and the democrats in power is murder. Mass murder. People are dying at these animals hand, no less than if it was the Korean war or World War II.

The world owes them a grave. Can’t let the carcasses stink up the place.

[nathanbedford]

It is misleading to direct attention to "big government" as the culprit in this affair. Big government merely provides the weapons which a tyrant only too eagerly aims and shoots.

The malicious spirit which animated the IRS in attempting to rig an election by intimidating conservative political groups is not the spirit of "big government," it is rather the tyrannical state of mind of the Saul Alinsky ethos personified by one of his disciples, Barak Hussein Obama.

Yes, the problem is big government but we might have gone on for another generation or two without the IRS terrorizing conservatives under a reasonable set of men and women in charge of the government. Can you imagine a Bush administration setting out to disenfranchise Democrats? That requires a mindset which is essentially tyrannical, one which despises the rule of law and the Constitution upon which it is based. One which thinks the entire system is unfair and must be junked in favor of a utopia which those in power will soon fashion with the help of the IRS.

Obama and his henchmen despise us, despise the Constitution, despise the rule of law, and regard the institutions of coercion within the government to be tools to be exploited to advance their utopia. It is not that they are without a conscience, it is that they believe they are doing good as they do evil-but this has been ever the rationalization of the tyrant.

Let us not blame the gun and so by inadvertence excuse the criminal who pulls the trigger, let us indict and convict the real criminal too.

[VRW Conspirator]

The IRS just dug big government’s grave. America now has the opportunity to look at the greedy monster that is expansive, progressive government and say, “We are done with you. Go away.”

Just goes to show that even conservatives can live in a fantasy world. I would love to eat crow on this one.

[central_va]

Bring me a bucket.

[PJ-Comix]

Here’s the thing: How can the IRS expect taxpayers to supply information upon their request when their own Lois Lerner refuses to supply information upon Congressional request via pleading the Fifth? I’ve got a funny feeling there will be much less compliance from taxpayers from now on with IRS requests for information.

[Ann Archy]

And that’s EXACTLY why Lois Lerner will be in the BIG HOUSE one day!! She EPITOMIZED the DOUBLE STANDARD!!!

[Right Wing Assault]

I like Gutman’s comment that the IRS people were obama’s drones against conservative Americans.

Sounds like a tagline.

[Klemper]

Thank you, Lois Lerner.... for giving me the option to write in “I plead the fifth” on my tax return.

[livius]

Good analysis! Big government has always been a problem just on the basis of its size alone, which makes it expensive, bumbling, inefficient. However, as you say, it can be weaponized by the right person, and Obama, who seems to have passed through his legal education unscathed by learning but was an eager student of Alinsky, especially the bit about taking over institutions, was that person.

I wish I felt that this would be the demise of big government, but I think there’s such a superstructure of government built up around American society that it would be hard to get rid of it all at once, at least. The only thing I hope might come out of this would be the dissolution of the IRS as it is now by the change to a new form of tax collection: that is, a Fair Tax or a Flat Tax. Obviously, an agency would still be in charge of doing this, but it wouldn’t have the levels of intrusiveness and discretion that would permit it to be used as a political weapon or, at any rate, not as effectively.

Which brings us back to the dictator. One thing I am certain of is that we are at a crucial point, right here and right now. If the government is not purged of Obama’s personnel and influences, with a public rejection (through jail sentences) of this model of government, then we’re finished. Even if he doesn’t go so far as to proclaim himself president for life, there will only be one party in the future and we will become nothing but servants of the state, particularly after Islamic law is imposed. There’s still time to stop this from happening, but not much.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Maria comes as close as anyone as understanding "the meaning of life" in her lines here:

Maitre D: You know, Maria, I sometimes wonder whether we'll ever discover the meaning of it all working in a place like this.

Maria: [shrugs] Oh, I've worked in worse places... philosophically speaking.

Maitre D: Really, Maria?

Maria: Yes... I used to work in the Academie Francaise But it didn't do me any good at all... And I once worked in the library in the Prado in Madrid, But it didn't teach me nothing, I recall... And the Library of Congress, you'd have thought would hold some key... But it didn't. And neither did the Bodleian Library. In the British Museum I hoped to find some clue, I worked there from 9 till 6 - read every volume through, But it didn't teach me nothing about Life's mystery...

[Travis McGee]

Are we fundamentally transformed yet?

[TADSLOS]

Are we fundamentally transformed yet?

Not quite. There's still a billion rounds of ammo to cycle through first.