XPost: alt.society.liberalism, can.politics, talk.politics.guns   
   From: dead@gone.com   
      
   On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 09:02:39 -0600, David Johnston wrote:   
      
   > On 6/1/2013 10:42 AM, Kurt Nicklas wrote:   
   >> Why This Scandal Is Different   
   >>   
   >> Peggy Noonan   
   >>   
   >> Sometimes when you’re writing part of a column you keep getting close   
   >> to the meaning of what you want to say but you don’t quite get there,   
   >> the full formulation of the idea eludes you. Then two days later,   
   >> relaxing in conversation with friends, the thought comes to you whole,   
   >> and you think: That’s what I meant to say. That’s what I was trying to   
   >> get.   
   >>   
   >> This week I had one of those moments. I kept trying, the paragraph kept   
   >> not quite working, the deadline came.   
   >>   
   >> I got an email last night that had the effect of a clarifying   
   >> conversation. It was from a smart friend who works in government. He   
   >> understood the point I was trying to make about how the current IRS   
   >> scandal is different from previous ones and more threatening to the   
   >> American arrangement. I had written that this scandal isn’t a discrete   
   >> event in which a president picks up a phone and tells someone in the   
   >> White House to look into the finances of some steel industry   
   >> executives, or to check out the returns of some guy on an enemies list.   
   >>   
   >> But my friend got to the essence. He wrote, “The left likes to say,   
   >> ‘Watergate was worse!’ Watergate was bad—don’t get me wrong. But it   
   was   
   >> elites using the machinery of government to spy on elites. . . . It’s   
   >> something quite different when elites use the machinery of government   
   >> against ordinary people. It’s a whole different ball game.”   
   >   
   > Ordinary people?  What ordinary people are we talking about?   
      
   "501(c)(4)s are people too!"   
      
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