Abuse of Power

 Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) writes at USA Today:

 

.... The NSA spying scandal goes deep, and the Obama administration's only upside is that the furor over its poking into Americans' private business on a wholesale basis will distract people from the furor over the use of the IRS and other federal agencies to target political enemies -- and even donors to Republican causes -- and the furor over the Benghazi screwup and subsequent lies (scapegoated filmmaker Nakoula is still in jail), the furor over the "Fast And Furious" gunrunning scandal that left literally scores of Mexicans dead, the scandal over the DOJ's poking into phone records of journalists (and their parents), HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' shakedown of companies she regulates for "donations" to pay for ObamaCare implementation that Congress has refused to fund, the Pigford scandal where the Treasury Department's "Judgment Fund" appears to have been raided for political purposes -- well, it's getting to where you need a scorecard to keep up.

But, in fact, there's a common theme in all of these scandals: Abuse of power. And, what's more, that abuse-of-power theme is what makes the NSA snooping story bigger than it otherwise would be. It all comes down to trust.

 

And like I was sayin' ... I don't trust this government as far as I can spit.

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

If a coin is ever minted to commemorate the reign of King Barack. it will read on one side "abuse of power" and on the other "contempt for the people." It's the latter that really ticks me off. I'm enough of a realist to know that power has, since the beginning of time, corrupted. But the corruption has more often than not been motivated by avarice and cupidity. The corruption we're seeing now is different; it's motivated by contempt -- disdain and even revulsion -- for the ordinary men and women who ARE America. And it's because this administration is so contemptuous of us that many of us find it contemptible in turn.