We’ve gotten to the point where you need a guide-book to keep track of all the scandals in Washington.
As a fiscal policy wonk, I focus mostly on the sleaze at the IRS, but I also recognize that the other scandals are equally troubling.
So I’m amused by Lisa Benson’s portrayal of the…um…plumbing problems at the White House.
But there’s a theme to all the scandals, regardless of whether they’re happening now under Obama or whether they happened under Bush or during the reign of previous Presidents: Many of them take place solely because government is large, bloated, and involved in areas where it doesn’t belong.
Here’s my video explaining why corruption is much more common when government is bigger.
P.S. You can see some of my favorite Benson cartoons here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
And here’s my favorite one, which criticized Obama’s class warfare policy and became part of my political cartoon contest.
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How many scandals can one administration have?
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The video is from April, 2009 and hence more than four years old. Fortunately, everything has got so much better since then that there is no cause for concern. What? Oh, that. That? And that? Well, . . . . . . .
Refreshingly honest
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