“…those who cannot be co-opted are isolated and then destroyed.“
I had seen mention of the use of IRS going against TEA Parties (Richmond TEA Party, Ohio Liberty Council, it seems that others are in process) over at The TaxProf’s blog (via Instapundit, much more here at The Daily Caller on what the IRS is demanding for information), but loyal reader Steven sent this link along from Big Government. Nice to see my US Senator Jeanne Shaheen all too willing to use the coercive force of Bigger Government (the IRS!) to silence her opposition! This proves the phrase that I have been using: “The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen”. We already have seen that Shaheen has no problem in using the force of the Federal Government:
- to override the legally valid decision of the NH Executive Council in defunding Planned Parenthood NE by having the Feds fund it directly
- to force religious institutions to provide free contraception / abortifacients / sterilizations / abortions against their theology and conscience. She emphasized her decision to sidle up with Obama in her floor speech that overrides First Amendment religious freedom; she agrees with Obama that Government can determine what is a church or not (i.e., Obama and “Sidekick Shaheen” get to determine what is a Politically Correct theology for a church – and not)
- And she goes all in by becoming a national co-chair of Obama’s campaign, furthering her running away from the Live Free or Die NH motto to one of “Big Government WILL tell you what you can do – or not”.
Given that last piece of information, are you at all surprised that she has taken up, not the NH way, but the Chicago way? Thus, you can now add “Shaheen wants IRS to audit you if you want a smaller government, lesser taxes, and an open marketplace” to that above list.
And so nice to see that Jeanne Shaheen, in signing this letter along with 5 of her other Best Bud Dem Senators, has decided to turn the IRS into a campaign tool. Hey, if Obama can use the IRS to crush opposition to Obamacare in the next few years (“what, no health insurance? Well, we at the IRS don’t take kindly to healthcare cheats! Here’s your fine, and where’s that key to your new jail cell gone to….”).
The Founders specifically enumerated the First Amendment Rights to Free Speech to protect the most vulnerable kind of speech – political speech, that which assails those in power. We have already seen the Democrat Progressives in Congress try to shove the DISCLOSE Act through that would have effectively prohibited oppositional political speech via death by regulation and fines (and Kathy Sullivan here in NH tried to duplicate that by an attempt to ram a “mini-NH-DISCLOSE” through the NH Legislature when the Dems had their supermajority (which got dubbed HassanSpeech, for the sponsoring Maggie Hassan. Do you think Hassan would try it again if she wins the Governorship??)).
For all of the Media calling that the death of the TEA Party is nigh, this shows that the TEA Party is very much well on the minds of the Democrats as election season starts up. However, knowing that they no longer have the legislative mojo to get stuff passed to muzzle their opposition, they are reverting to being Obama-lite accolytes in using the levers of Big Government to accomplish the same thing. Jeanne Shaheen KNOWS that few groups or people can withstand the might of the IRS – a seemingly great tool to kill off her opposition.
With this, you truly have earned the image:
