{"id":7181,"date":"2013-05-23T01:38:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T05:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=7181"},"modified":"2013-05-23T01:38:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T05:38:26","slug":"with-government-abuses-the-problem-is-the-power-not-the-person-jd-tuccille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2013\/05\/with-government-abuses-the-problem-is-the-power-not-the-person-jd-tuccille.html","title":{"rendered":"“With Government Abuses, The Problem Is the Power, Not the Person”: JD Tuccille"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

at Reason:<\/p>\n

\u2026Bovard sketches how \u201cPresident Franklin Roosevelt used the IRS to harass newspaper publishers who were opposed to the New Deal\u201d and \u201cKennedy \u2026 used the IRS to strong-arm companies into complying with \u201cvoluntary\u201d price controls. Steel executives who defied the administration were singled out for audits.\u201d He points out that the \u201cIRS was \u2026 given Nixon\u2019s enemies list to, in the words of White House counsel John Dean, \u2018use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.'\u201d<\/p>\n

We discovered in the 1990s, Bovard points out, that not just presidents, but members of Congress, had used the IRS to target political enemies for audits.<\/p>\n

Likewise, the Justice Department\u2019s surveillance of Associated Press<\/a> reporters and Fox News correspondent James Rosen<\/a> was no isolated incident. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation points out, media screams may have been raised when professional journalists found themselves on the receiving end of security-state tactics, but the government has been wielding such secretive and intrusive power against the general public for years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

more<\/a>\u2013and see also Ramesh Ponnuru, \u201c\u2018Obama Scandals\u2019 Could Actually Hurt Republicans\u201d:<\/p>\n

Republicans have similar vulnerabilities on the issues now. They have no real health-care agenda. Voters don\u2019t trust them to look out for middle-class economic interests. Republicans are confused and divided about how to solve the party\u2019s problems. What they can do is unite in opposition to the Obama administration\u2019s scandals and mistakes. So that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing. They\u2019re trying to win news cycles when they need votes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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at Reason: \u2026Bovard sketches how \u201cPresident Franklin Roosevelt used the IRS to harass newspaper publishers who were opposed to the New Deal\u201d and \u201cKennedy \u2026 used the IRS to strong-arm companies into complying with \u201cvoluntary\u201d price controls. Steel executives who defied the administration were singled out for audits.\u201d He points out that the \u201cIRS was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[171,49,46,51],"class_list":["post-7181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abuse-of-power-comes-as-no-surprise","tag-obama-messiah","tag-our-enemy-the-state","tag-so-far-from-god-so-close-to-the-united-states"],"yoast_head":"\n"With Government Abuses, The Problem Is the Power, Not the Person": JD Tuccille<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"at Reason: ...Bovard sketches how "President Franklin Roosevelt used the IRS to harass newspaper publishers who were opposed to the New Deal" and "Kennedy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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