Barack Obama Makes the Case for a Smaller Government

"Okay, where's he going with this," you've probably asked yourself after reading the title.

Obviously, the President didn't intentionally open up a line of logic making the case for a smaller government. But he did.

In the midst of the current scandals, the President and the people around him have found an excuse they seem to love: the president didn't know about [fill-in-the-blank] until he saw it on the news. Here's a list of scandals for which they've used it:

1. Fast and Furious
2. IRS Targeting
3. AP/Fox Press Probes

In fact, the only scandal he apparently did know about is Benghazi. Although, we still don't know if that's actually true and Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer says that's an "Irrelevant Fact."

Apparently, a lot of stuff goes unnoticed by our Chief Executive. And who can blame him? There are about 2.8 million federal employees (300k more people than the total U.S. population in 1776). How can one man possibly know about all the goings-on in innumerable government agencies — even very important developments and scandals?

In fact, even David Axelrod seems to understand the problem. 

"Part of being President is there's so much beneath you that you can't know because the government is so vast."

But this President wants to grow the government. If for no other reason, is this not proof of it being a bad idea?

An Internet Crash-Course for Conservatives

The Internet.

A big scary place full of small scary people. So what's a conservative to do? There's so much hate, vitriol, and ignorance out there.
Nary a day goes by where I don't scroll down to the bottom of a news story only to be embarrassed by the so-called conservatives taking a fluff piece on some guy's dog with a strange talent and turning it into the perfect chance to call President Obama a dog-eater.

In fact, I've come up with a formula for ignorent conservative comments:

Wow, [two words that sort of relate to the actual story], but [extremely uncreative play on "Obama"] is a [Muslim/socialist/communist/Kenyen]!

Here's a tip: when you're in a firefight, don't give the other side ammunition. And stupid, baseless comments are intellectual ammunition. To assist those who can't tell the difference between stupid and not stupid, I've compiled a few rules for Internet commenting right after the jump.