Mostly IRS scandal material:
“What we are witnessing now is not a crisis of democracy but a crisis of authority. The administrative state, in thrall to a decadent cultural elite, has lost the consent of the governed.”
Remember how Jay Carney said that the IRS targeting of conservative groups stopped in May 2012? He lied. (I know. Try to contain your shock.) It’s still going on today.
The IRS scandal needs a special prosecutor:
This administration’s management of the Obama Internal Revenue Service scandal so far consists of a slow-walking, rolling disclosure of facts; equal parts equivocation, amnesia and indignation from IRS witnesses; deer-in-the-headlights non-responses by the White House press secretary; parsed, lawyerly statements from the president himself; and now one of the central key players is taking the Fifth. And all this comes from what the president claimed would be the “most transparent administration ever… if the president is innocent, he will end up needing and wanting a special prosecutor sooner rather than later. If he and his White House already have too much to hide, then they must clam up, cry partisanship and hope their allies on the Hill and in the media have the stamina for the long, hard slog ahead.”
What do you know, those crazy right wing activists were right, when they claimed the IRS was targeting conservative groups all the way back in February 2012. Though like many of the IRS articles I’ve seen lately suggests that the Tea Party was in decline when the scandal broke. Tell that to Dick Luger. Or Ted Cruz.
Goal of the top aides for Presidents Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43? Keep him informed. Goal of Obama’s top aides? Keep him out of the loop. Or should I say “Keep him from being indicted”?
Obama demands faith in the federal government…or else. From last week, but still well worth reading.
Tags: IRS, Obama Scandals
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