Nothing New Under the Sun

Jon Stewart can be funny and is here (if off color) going ballistic over the current Obama Administration multi-scandals. What makes me scratch my head, though, is the continuing and apparently permanent inability of progressives to admit the truth of Lord Acton's maxim: power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is the reality of the human condition. The Founders understood this and designed a political system with elaborate checks and balances to assure that no one person or branch of government acquired overwhelming power.  

Progressives always want to ignore the Constitution because this time we will do it better - the person is smarter, wiser, a different color, etc., etc. Not gonna happen. The hitch is that they are still human and even if their motives are good when they begin, soon the intoxication starts and they are soon drunk with power and lose their way with scandals inevitably following. There should be no surprise at this but witness Stewart's angst, there always is.

Human nature doesn't change - there is nothing new under the sun. We should not be surprised at political scandals. It is time to put the guardrails back in place and follow the Constitution. This statement will probably draw an IRS audit but if more and more people shout it from the housetops, they can't audit the whole country.

www.ijreview.com/2013/05/52244-jon-stewart-absolutely-skewers-incompetent-obama-administration-sides-with-conservatives/

(Tip o' the hat to Al Lyons)