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I'm posting two opinion pieces because they mirror my opinions. It's very convenient to have people write these columns so I can quote them rather than having to do any heavy lifting on my own. :-)
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.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonk...tid=pm_pop
Peggy Noonan is so overwhelmed by her contempt for the president, she wrote in her column this morning, "We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate," and then neglected to mention which perceived "scandal" she was even referring to.
Whether you consider the ongoing controversies as serious or trivial, there has to be a smarter way of looking at the news.
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/0...comparison
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I agree with this. Barring new revelations, as always.
Benghazi is played out. No new information. The whole memo thing is a yawner.
AP supeoena, distasteful, but no law broken, thanks to Congress.
IRS. Other than our sense of fair play, exactly what law has been broken? I ask this seriously. The IRS is charged with evaluating these applications. Obviously they were being stupid about it. I suppose the free speech angle may have some legs, but it's not clear cut what the damages were.
Caveat: If Obama directed, or deliberately looked the other way from, the IRS scrutiny, then you have something Nixonian--but even then that's not what brought Nixon down. Currently, Obama's pretty well covered by the Reagan defense of ignorance.
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Well, Michele Bachman said the IRS scandal is "Far worse than Watergate," and you know she never lies.
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Ammo wrote:
Well, Michele Bachman said the IRS scandal is "Far worse than Watergate," and you know she never lies.
Ms. Bachmann Turner Overdrive probably thinks that Watergate is related to an overdue utility bill.
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They just want to do the same thing to Obama that they did to Clinton. Have the White House staff all tied up in fighting "scandals" so they won't have time to fill Washington appointments with ideologue appointments like Bush did.
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Acer wrote:
Caveat: If Obama directed, or deliberately looked the other way from, the IRS scrutiny, then you have something Nixonian--but even then that's not what brought Nixon down. Currently, Obama's pretty well covered by the Reagan defense of ignorance.
Noonan seems to have forgotten the Iran-Contra scandal. A lot of laws were clearly broken - heck, the Constitution itself was directly violated. People in the Reagan administration sold arms to the mullahs in Iran for cripes sake. And yet that just breezes through Noonan's mind (which shows you how full of holes it is) when she's trying to think of the worst scandals since Watergate. Worse, I wouldn't be surprised if she, like a great many other conservatives, considers Oliver North to be a hero for what he did. Blech.
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Even Newt is warning Republicans not to go all Lewinsky on this thing.
"I think we overreached in '98 — how's that for a quote you can use?" Gingrich told NPR's Mara Liasson.
Interesting comments from him on NPR< though of course he didn't pass up the opportunity to bash the President too.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013...n-scandals
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Is he saying don't go all Lewinsky? It seems like he is encouraging a "deadening" amount of investigation and is warning them to have all their ducks in a row and THEN go all Lewinsky.
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He's admitting what everyone knows, they went overboard on Clinton and it didn't work out as planned.
He can't stop being a good soldier for the GOP, but the admission is refreshing.
the ironic thing is that we'd all be better off it we'd never had to hear the sordid details of Bill Clinton's sex life, as those have nothing to do with us. But unfortunately using the IRS to intimidate and the DOJ to suppress freedom of the press are things that hurt all of us, and are far, far more serious.
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I'm not sure sure I'd call the Lewinsky affair a failure for the republicans. The tarnish on Clinton was certainly no help to Gore.
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