Dealing with the Obama culture of intimidation

Hugh Hewitt:

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The House does have it within its power, however, to thoroughly investigate the culture of intimidation that has developed within federal agencies far and wide and which is most obviously and widely felt by the public with regard to the IRS.

That culture is not limited to the IRS. Recall the Obama appointee Al Armendariz, who led a region of the Environmental Protection Agency until a speech he gave surfaced in which he extolled the virtues of "crucifying" members of the regulated community.

That was a shocker, but it was also quickly consigned to the memory hole, an unfortunate appointee who had gone rogue. Turns out Armendariz wasn't an outlier. He was a model.

Now comes the IRS scandal hard on the heals of the Benghazi cover-up and side-by-side with the sweeping snooping by the Justice Department of the Associated Press, including the AP's phones within the precincts of the House of Representatives.

In the recent past is the 9-0 rebuke of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Hosanna-Tabor case, and the court's smack down, again 9-0, of the EPA in the Sackett case.

Both were 2012 cases, and both concerned obvious abuses of federal power, which the Obama Justice Department took all the way to their embarrassing conclusions.

I spend most days counseling various companies on how to deal with this or that part of the federal government, and increasingly it isn't about how to comply but how to persuade the distant but vast bureaucracy to even respond.

D.C. is becoming Versailles on the Potomac, a virtual palace where a few hundred thousand privileged grandees rule through their minions in the provinces. The result is a deep well of contempt which the governors have for the governed, and that attitude has seeped into every nook and cranny of the vast federal power.
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We have to respond to the liberal fascism coming from Washington under Obama. His Chicago Way methods depend on it.  Highlighting the culture of intimidation should not be limited to the IRS but should also include all the federal agencies used by the Obama team to attack their political opponents.