On the one hand, there's good news for Bill Elliot, the cancer patient who told Fox News recently that with his insurance cancelled and ObamaCare way too expensive, he had decided to eschew the insurance and just let nature take its course. In other words, likely die.
Since then, his previous insurer has told him he can keep his insurance, and his doctor tells him he's in remission. So all of you who prayed for him . . . prayer works.
But he committed the unpardonable sin of speaking out against Obama (for whom he voted), and that tends to get the attention of the IRS. A week ago Tuesday he received a certified letter from the IRS that he is being audited for the year 2009. Here's more from his recent radio interview with WQSC (via CNS News):
Now let's be ridiculously generous to the IRS here, and give them the benefit of the doubt that this had nothing to do with Elliot's public statements. That there are legitimate questions about his 2009 taxes and the timing of it all was strictly a coincidence. Yeah. Ridiculously generous.
Surely someone at the IRS had to know who this guy was, had to know about his health situation, had to know that this would receive high-profile attention. And even with the man's cancer in remission, surely they understand that someone suffering from cancer is going through an awful lot and the last thing they need is an IRS audit.
Yet here came that certified letter.
OK, now let's stop being generous, because the behavior of the IRS in recent years tells us the agency doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt. Is this just some sort of knee-jerk reaction of the Obama regime? Guy makes you look bad publicly. Guy gets audited. Cancer patient? Too bad. Don't screw with us.
Because that's what it looks like to me, and while it's difficult on the one hand to imagine that level of vindictiveness, we should know better than to doubt it given what we've seen of their modus operandi since Obama took office.
Well, keep praying for Bill. If God can take away his cancer and restore his health insurance, He can surely vanquish the IRS. Ask Him for big things. A lot of Americans could really use the help right about now.
