The scandals are falling apart

[Synthaholic]

The scandals are falling apart





Things go wrong in government. Sometimes it’s just bad luck. Sometimes it’s rank incompetence. Sometimes it’s criminal wrongdoing. Most of the time you never hear about it. Or, if you do hear about it, the media eventually gets bored talking about it (see warming, global).


But every so often an instance of government wrongdoing sprouts wings and becomes something quite exciting: A political scandal.


The crucial ingredient for a scandal is the prospect of high-level White House involvement and wide political repercussions. Government wrongdoing is boring. Scandals can bring down presidents, decide elections and revive down-and-out political parties. Scandals can dominate American politics for months at a time.


On Tuesday, it looked like we had three possible political scandals brewing. Two days later, with much more evidence available, it doesn’t look like any of them will pan out. There’ll be more hearings, and more bad press for the Obama administration, and more demands for documents. But — and this is a key qualification — absent more revelations, the scandals that could reach high don’t seem to include any real wrongdoing, whereas the ones that include real wrongdoing don’t reach high enough. Let’s go through them.


1) The Internal Revenue Service: The IRS mess was, well, a mess. But it’s not a mess that implicates the White House, or even senior IRS leadership. If we believe the agency inspector general’s report, a group of employees in a division called the “Determinations Unit” — sounds sinister, doesn’t it? — started giving tea party groups extra scrutiny, were told by agency leadership to knock it off, started doing it again, and then were reined in a second time and told that any further changes to the screening criteria needed to be approved at the highest levels of the agency.


The White House fired the acting director of the agency on the theory that somebody had to be fired and he was about the only guy they had the power to fire. They’re also instructing the IRS to implement each and every one of the IG’s recommendations to make sure this never happens again.


If new information emerges showing a connection between the Determination Unit’s decisions and the Obama campaign, or the Obama administration, it would crack this White House wide open. That would be a genuine scandal. But the IG report says that there’s no evidence of that. And so it’s hard to see where this one goes from here.




Click the link for Benghazi and AP

 

[Katzndogz]

It's wishin' and hopin' and wishin' and hopin'.

It might have been different if obama had really fired someone, anyone. But he didn't. The man supposedly fired was leaving anyway and will get reassigned to another department.

Meanwhile, it was discovered that this paranoid cocaine addict bugged the congressional cloakroom.

California congressman Devin Nunes made the claim yesterday that the Justice Department wiretapped telephones in the House of Representative's Cloak Room, an exclusive part of the Capitol where members are able to privately interact with one another.

 

[nodoginnafight]

It's wishin' and hopin' and wishin' and hopin'.

It might have been different if obama had really fired someone, anyone. But he didn't. The man supposedly fired was leaving anyway and will get reassigned to another department.

Meanwhile, it was discovered that this paranoid cocaine addict bugged the congressional cloakroom.

California congressman Devin Nunes made the claim yesterday that the Justice Department wiretapped telephones in the House of Representative's Cloak Room, an exclusive part of the Capitol where members are able to privately interact with one another.

Actually, I believe Nunes was claiming he was bugged in the cloak room because he called one of the reporters (who was bugged) from the cloak room.

Like OP said - these things just seem to unravel under the most prefunctory of examinations.

I'll keep my eyes and ears open, but OP is correct. It's going to take some new revelations to do any damage. (Which is the goal right? Not justice, just damage to a POTUS you don't like ????)

 

[Yurt]

the scandals are actually blowing up in obama's face. hence his scrambling around to do news conferences, interviews etc....

only a left wing hack would claim they are falling apart

 

[Claudette]

Nope lets get the truth and take it from there.

I have no liking for the current POTUS but I also don't like lies and trying paint something that isn't there.

However if it is there I expect the same treatment for Barry that Bush would get.

 

[Avorysuds]

LOLz!

falling apart? Everyday shit is getting worse for Obama.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Tell the nurse you've had too much morphine Synthaholic

 

[Amelia]

How did Obama end up with so many underlings who were willing to twist rules and break thumbs without ever consulting him to make sure it's what he would want them to do?

 

[Mr. H.]

When Synthahol starts squirming, you know this is the real shit.

 

[bripat9643]

Tell the nurse you've had too much morphine Synthaholic

The nurse is probably on his ignore list.

 

[mudwhistle]

It's wishin' and hopin' and wishin' and hopin'.

It might have been different if obama had really fired someone, anyone. But he didn't. The man supposedly fired was leaving anyway and will get reassigned to another department.

Meanwhile, it was discovered that this paranoid cocaine addict bugged the congressional cloakroom.

California congressman Devin Nunes made the claim yesterday that the Justice Department wiretapped telephones in the House of Representative's Cloak Room, an exclusive part of the Capitol where members are able to privately interact with one another.

Actually, I believe Nunes was claiming he was bugged in the cloak room because he called one of the reporters (who was bugged) from the cloak room.

Like OP said - these things just seem to unravel under the most prefunctory of examinations.

I'vll keep my eyes and ears open, but OP is correct. It's going to take some new revelations to do any damage. (Which is the goal right? Not justice, just damage to a POTUS you don't like é????)

Everything I'm hearing says Obama is in full damage-control mode and what you're hearing is part of the coverup/delay tactics.

For 3 years this is going and the White House, which must have directed it, didn't know diddly-squat.

I have to call Bull Shit.


Course I always knew Obama was under qualfied for the job, but if you listen to everyone in the administration we should be calling him President Bystander.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

The scandals are falling apart





Things go wrong in government. Sometimes it’s just bad luck. Sometimes it’s rank incompetence. Sometimes it’s criminal wrongdoing. Most of the time you never hear about it. Or, if you do hear about it, the media eventually gets bored talking about it (see warming, global).


But every so often an instance of government wrongdoing sprouts wings and becomes something quite exciting: A political scandal.


The crucial ingredient for a scandal is the prospect of high-level White House involvement and wide political repercussions. Government wrongdoing is boring. Scandals can bring down presidents, decide elections and revive down-and-out political parties. Scandals can dominate American politics for months at a time.


On Tuesday, it looked like we had three possible political scandals brewing. Two days later, with much more evidence available, it doesn’t look like any of them will pan out. There’ll be more hearings, and more bad press for the Obama administration, and more demands for documents. But — and this is a key qualification — absent more revelations, the scandals that could reach high don’t seem to include any real wrongdoing, whereas the ones that include real wrongdoing don’t reach high enough. Let’s go through them.


1) The Internal Revenue Service: The IRS mess was, well, a mess. But it’s not a mess that implicates the White House, or even senior IRS leadership. If we believe the agency inspector general’s report, a group of employees in a division called the “Determinations Unit” — sounds sinister, doesn’t it? — started giving tea party groups extra scrutiny, were told by agency leadership to knock it off, started doing it again, and then were reined in a second time and told that any further changes to the screening criteria needed to be approved at the highest levels of the agency.


The White House fired the acting director of the agency on the theory that somebody had to be fired and he was about the only guy they had the power to fire. They’re also instructing the IRS to implement each and every one of the IG’s recommendations to make sure this never happens again.


If new information emerges showing a connection between the Determination Unit’s decisions and the Obama campaign, or the Obama administration, it would crack this White House wide open. That would be a genuine scandal. But the IG report says that there’s no evidence of that. And so it’s hard to see where this one goes from here.




Click the link for Benghazi and AP

I saw the title of this thread and my first thought was that Synthaholic is delusional.

It turns out he is not the only one.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Classic state of liberal denial right here folks. They seem to have dug themselves an even deeper hole by releasing those emails.

 

[theHawk]

The scandals are falling apart





Things go wrong in government. Sometimes it’s just bad luck. Sometimes it’s rank incompetence. Sometimes it’s criminal wrongdoing. Most of the time you never hear about it. Or, if you do hear about it, the media eventually gets bored talking about it (see warming, global).


But every so often an instance of government wrongdoing sprouts wings and becomes something quite exciting: A political scandal.


The crucial ingredient for a scandal is the prospect of high-level White House involvement and wide political repercussions. Government wrongdoing is boring. Scandals can bring down presidents, decide elections and revive down-and-out political parties. Scandals can dominate American politics for months at a time.


On Tuesday, it looked like we had three possible political scandals brewing. Two days later, with much more evidence available, it doesn’t look like any of them will pan out. There’ll be more hearings, and more bad press for the Obama administration, and more demands for documents. But — and this is a key qualification — absent more revelations, the scandals that could reach high don’t seem to include any real wrongdoing, whereas the ones that include real wrongdoing don’t reach high enough. Let’s go through them.


1) The Internal Revenue Service: The IRS mess was, well, a mess. But it’s not a mess that implicates the White House, or even senior IRS leadership. If we believe the agency inspector general’s report, a group of employees in a division called the “Determinations Unit” — sounds sinister, doesn’t it? — started giving tea party groups extra scrutiny, were told by agency leadership to knock it off, started doing it again, and then were reined in a second time and told that any further changes to the screening criteria needed to be approved at the highest levels of the agency.


The White House fired the acting director of the agency on the theory that somebody had to be fired and he was about the only guy they had the power to fire. They’re also instructing the IRS to implement each and every one of the IG’s recommendations to make sure this never happens again.


If new information emerges showing a connection between the Determination Unit’s decisions and the Obama campaign, or the Obama administration, it would crack this White House wide open. That would be a genuine scandal. But the IG report says that there’s no evidence of that. And so it’s hard to see where this one goes from here.




Click the link for Benghazi and AP

Translation: No matter how grim things look, always believe in the Democrat Party and our Dear Leader. Ignore the obvious warning signs of incompetence and corruption, just have faith that the Hussein will learn from this and become an even better leader.

 

[NYcarbineer]

The Right has never gotten it right about President Obama for 6 years. There's no reason to believe they will get this right.

The IRS scandal can't be pinned on Obama, and ironically, the IRS scandal is smothering the Benghazi fake scandal that the inmates were obsessing over.

 

[depotoo]

and the justice department has lost two terrorists they put in the witness protection program...
One possibly still in the US, the other possibly got away through a flight out overseas
Reported by an IG report today.

 

[Oldstyle]

The scandals are falling apart





Things go wrong in government. Sometimes it’s just bad luck. Sometimes it’s rank incompetence. Sometimes it’s criminal wrongdoing. Most of the time you never hear about it. Or, if you do hear about it, the media eventually gets bored talking about it (see warming, global).


But every so often an instance of government wrongdoing sprouts wings and becomes something quite exciting: A political scandal.


The crucial ingredient for a scandal is the prospect of high-level White House involvement and wide political repercussions. Government wrongdoing is boring. Scandals can bring down presidents, decide elections and revive down-and-out political parties. Scandals can dominate American politics for months at a time.


On Tuesday, it looked like we had three possible political scandals brewing. Two days later, with much more evidence available, it doesn’t look like any of them will pan out. There’ll be more hearings, and more bad press for the Obama administration, and more demands for documents. But — and this is a key qualification — absent more revelations, the scandals that could reach high don’t seem to include any real wrongdoing, whereas the ones that include real wrongdoing don’t reach high enough. Let’s go through them.


1) The Internal Revenue Service: The IRS mess was, well, a mess. But it’s not a mess that implicates the White House, or even senior IRS leadership. If we believe the agency inspector general’s report, a group of employees in a division called the “Determinations Unit” — sounds sinister, doesn’t it? — started giving tea party groups extra scrutiny, were told by agency leadership to knock it off, started doing it again, and then were reined in a second time and told that any further changes to the screening criteria needed to be approved at the highest levels of the agency.


The White House fired the acting director of the agency on the theory that somebody had to be fired and he was about the only guy they had the power to fire. They’re also instructing the IRS to implement each and every one of the IG’s recommendations to make sure this never happens again.


If new information emerges showing a connection between the Determination Unit’s decisions and the Obama campaign, or the Obama administration, it would crack this White House wide open. That would be a genuine scandal. But the IG report says that there’s no evidence of that. And so it’s hard to see where this one goes from here.




Click the link for Benghazi and AP

I'm going to respectfully disagree with that assessment, Synth. I'm rapidly becoming convinced that someone inside of the Obama White House DID have knowledge of what was going on over at the IRS...hence President Obama's ducking of that question in his press conference today. I think that particular scandal has the potential to blow wide open...especially with the main stream media already pissed off at this Administration for the AP wiretaps.

 

[RoadVirus]

Liberal logic: The IG report said there were a few mistakes made and can be fixed and Obama fired the acting Director of the IRS, so everything is all better now.

Denial is an ugly thing. So is desperation. And Liberals are currently engaging in both

 

[Synthaholic]

the scandals are actually blowing up in obama's face. hence his scrambling around to do news conferences, interviews etc....

only facts would claim they are falling apart

Fixed.

 

[Synthaholic]

The scandals are falling apart





Things go wrong in government. Sometimes it’s just bad luck. Sometimes it’s rank incompetence. Sometimes it’s criminal wrongdoing. Most of the time you never hear about it. Or, if you do hear about it, the media eventually gets bored talking about it (see warming, global).


But every so often an instance of government wrongdoing sprouts wings and becomes something quite exciting: A political scandal.


The crucial ingredient for a scandal is the prospect of high-level White House involvement and wide political repercussions. Government wrongdoing is boring. Scandals can bring down presidents, decide elections and revive down-and-out political parties. Scandals can dominate American politics for months at a time.


On Tuesday, it looked like we had three possible political scandals brewing. Two days later, with much more evidence available, it doesn’t look like any of them will pan out. There’ll be more hearings, and more bad press for the Obama administration, and more demands for documents. But — and this is a key qualification — absent more revelations, the scandals that could reach high don’t seem to include any real wrongdoing, whereas the ones that include real wrongdoing don’t reach high enough. Let’s go through them.


1) The Internal Revenue Service: The IRS mess was, well, a mess. But it’s not a mess that implicates the White House, or even senior IRS leadership. If we believe the agency inspector general’s report, a group of employees in a division called the “Determinations Unit” — sounds sinister, doesn’t it? — started giving tea party groups extra scrutiny, were told by agency leadership to knock it off, started doing it again, and then were reined in a second time and told that any further changes to the screening criteria needed to be approved at the highest levels of the agency.


The White House fired the acting director of the agency on the theory that somebody had to be fired and he was about the only guy they had the power to fire. They’re also instructing the IRS to implement each and every one of the IG’s recommendations to make sure this never happens again.


If new information emerges showing a connection between the Determination Unit’s decisions and the Obama campaign, or the Obama administration, it would crack this White House wide open. That would be a genuine scandal. But the IG report says that there’s no evidence of that. And so it’s hard to see where this one goes from here.




Click the link for Benghazi and AP

I'm going to respectfully disagree with that assessment, Synth. I'm rapidly becoming convinced that someone inside of the Obama White House DID have knowledge of what was going on over at the IRS...hence President Obama's ducking of that question in his press conference today. I think that particular scandal has the potential to blow wide open...especially with the main stream media already pissed off at this Administration for the AP wiretaps.

You may be the only RW-er in this thread who actually read the OP/link.

But you're still wrong.