The Obama Scandals Aren’t About Bad Government, but Big Government

By: Senator Mike Lee (Diary)  |  May 16th, 2013

When scandal rocks any administration, its partisan opponents smell blood in the water and move in to inflict as much political damage on the president as possible.   Consultants assure us it’ll “gin up the base.” It makes headlines. And it’s always easy to kick someone when he’s down.  But for conservatives, especially in the case of the various scandals enveloping the Obama Administration this month, it’s also unwise.

For these scandals present conservatives a much greater opportunity than the chance to win a few news cycles or claim a few bureaucratic scalps.   The ballooning Obama scandals – IRS, HHS, DOJ, EPA – are not really about character or competence, but the danger of big government itself.  The more power any government has, the more power it will abuse. The more money it spends, the more money it will mis-spend. Dysfunction and corruption grow on government like mold on otherwise perfectly good bread.

It has nothing to do with party or ideology – it has to do with human nature....To Read More.....