I didn’t have comments open when I posted sumpin’ disparaging about Nixon last week and Claudia took it upon herself to chastise me.  Nixon was a flawed man, but he had more character than BJ and Jug Hussein Ears Downgrade combined.  BJ’s sins were far more egregious than Nixon’s (FBI files and the IRS and those are but two of the scandals) but he had a good economy and the LSM on his side.  Nixon had neither.  Obumbler’s sins already are worse than Nixon’s, but he’s black and a Dimocrat so he’ll prolly weather the storm.  Republicans hold their politicians to a higher standard than Dimocrats.  Prime example:  The Floater, the “Lion of the Senate” .  Just remember one thing.  Unlike Benghazi (or the Floater’s Oldsmobile), no one died in Watergate.  Saw a link to this post on Instapundit.

I protest. Will no one stand up for Richard Nixon? Richard Nixon was a combat veteran, a staunch and brave anti-Communist, a man who took on the liberal establishment and at times his own party’s as well, a leader who often thought for himself and had the courage of his convictions, a president who assembled a first-rate Cabinet and one who—while flawed both in character and in policy judgment—usually tried to confront the real problems and deal with challenges of his times. Richard Nixon led neither the country nor his own administration from behind.

I worked for Richard Nixon (well, I worked for two months in the Nixon White House in 1970 as a summer intern). I voted for Richard Nixon (in 1972, my first vote, against George McGovern—and one about which I have no regrets). I knew Richard Nixon (very slightly—I met him on a few occasions in groups in the late 1970s and the 1980s, and then a couple of times when I worked for Vice President Quayle). And so I feel obliged to rise to Richard Nixon’s defense, and to say, with all due respect, to our current president: Barack Obama, you’re no Richard Nixon.

From John.

Howza ’bout that IRS scandal?  The IRS was targeting Tea Party groups.  Meanwhile, liberal groups had no trouble getting tax exempt status.  Isn’t that just special?  Remember, it’s the IRS that’s gonna be the enforcement arm for Obummercare.  Doesn’t that give you a warm and fuzzy feeling?

Here’s more.  Lois Lerner, who was in charge of the section of the IRS which grants tax exempt status, and who claims she did nothing wrong, even though she is taking the Fifth for her testimony, is gonna be the person in charge of the section of the IRS responsible for Obummercare.  That is even more of a warm and fuzzy feeling.

Have any of you ever dealt with the IRS?  I have.  I’ve written about this before.   Back in the early ’80’s I invested in a perfectly legal tax shelter.  One of the persons in the tax shelter was audited and the IRS gave that person the numbers that the IRS said were OK.  So, I filed an amended tax return using the IRS supplied numbers.  Guess what?  I was audited.  I told the IRS dickhead that I was using numbers supplied by the IRS.  He told me that those were numbers from the downtown IRS office.   I asked how that worked?  Each office could make up their own set of rules?  He told me that was true and if I didn’t like it I could take them to court.  The amount was only $270 so I just paid it.  One of the other participants in the partnership took them to tax court.  Every time he showed up, the IRS lawyers asked for a continuance which was granted.  They didn’t really have a case.  I imagine he finally gave up as well.

Isn’t is nice that the IRS can change the rules from office to office?  And these are the people who are gonna run Obummercare.

Here’s another thing that pisses me off about the IRS.  In criminal cases you are innocent until proven guilty.  With the IRS, you are guilty until proven innocent and the burden of proof isn’t on the IRS (which seemingly can change tax laws from office to office) but on the taxpayer.

The IRS can seize your assets and garnishee your wages.  It can ruin you.  No wonder the rat bastard commies in the Oblunder administration have sicced the IRS on their political foes.

I wrote a post awhile back where I said when incompetent Dimocrat presidents get in trouble, we hear that the gummint has just gotten too big for one man to run.  That’s what Axelrod said the other day in response to all of the Obungler scandals that are turning up now.  Obeauzeau just can’t keep track of all the stuff going on in his administration.

Here’s a solution for that.  Quit growing the size of the gummint.  Shrink it.  Then the Obamessiah can do a better job of running the gummint.

But what Axelrod said was total bullshit anyway.  They said this about Jimmah Carter back in the 70’s.   Obongo knew what was going on at the IRS  He was behind it.  It’s the Chicago way and Oboner is nothing more that a Chicago thug.  He was responsible for the disaster at Benghazi as well.  He left four Americans to die while he went to bed and got up the next morning for a fundraising trip to Las Vegas.   The buck is supposed to stop at the president’s desk.  With this president, it’s always someone else’s fault.  He takes credit for the good stuff, like the bin Laden takedown and blames the bad stuff on others.

Thanks voters!

Thanks to Don in the comments, I now know how to do extended entries so boobage and puns are safe.   Once I approve your first comment, your comments will no longer go into moderation and you should see them immediately.   Also, there is a neat reply feature where one can apply to an individual comment and the reply will be nested into that comment.  That is an awesome feature.  My comments are not being forwarded to a special e-mail like with my MT setup.  Still have to fix that.

Now, let the fun begin!