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Of Drones and Dumb Government

"Part of being president is there's so much beneath you that you can't know because the government is so vast."-- David Axelrod , longtime political adviser to President Obama, in a May 15 interview on MSNBC shielding Obama from personal responsibility for abuses of power within his administration.President Obama today will announce that rather than continuing to take personal charge of the covert program that targets individuals abroad for death, including American citizens, he will shift responsibility to a new bureaucracy at the Pentagon.Don't you feel better now?Obama says that he is a proponent not of big government or small government but "smart government" that is adaptive, reactive, transparent and efficient. But what we saw on display Wednesday in the testimony from current and former IRS officials was dumb government in its fullest flower.Literally dumb in the case of IRS lieutenant Lois Lerner, who after asserting her innocence sat silent on the grounds that she might incrim...

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