XPost: alt.society.liberalism, can.politics, talk.politics.guns   
   From: Dev@null.net   
      
   On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 07:11:32 -0500, "SaPeIsMa"    
   wrote:   
      
   >"David Johnston"  wrote in message   
   >news:kofmi3$ufv$1@dont-email.me...   
   >> 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?   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >As opposed to the elites   
   >    Can't you even read a simple text for comprehension ?   
      
      
   The Tea Party is the brain child of the Koch Brothers and is financed   
   and organized by them.   
      
   It is a prime example of plutocratic elites organizing against   
   ordinary people to destroy their rights.   
      
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