Get your tickets, friends and neighbors!
The Summer of Scandal Circus is coming to town, brought to you by the Rightwingling Brothers, Boehner, and Baleful .
Come one! Come all!
Watch the Republican-led House of Representatives tumble out of their clown-car, trip and fall all over their very indignant and outraged selves to investigate BENGHAZI! And then BENGHAZI! And after that---BENGHAZI!
Watch the Republican-led House of Representatives ride their enormous elephants into the BIG TOP to investigate, and investigate, and then investigate again.
"Republicans were leaping joyfully through the capital like overcaffeinated gazelles. There is not a committee chairman in the House of Representatives who isn’t planning hearings of outrage about something — except maybe the poor woman John Boehner appointed to run the committee in charge of housekeeping.
Heads must roll!
Senator James Inhofe announced that “people may be starting to use the i-word before too long,” having apparently missed all the prior calls for the president’s impeachment for everything from failure to balance the budget to gun control."
Senator Inhofe thrilled the crowd as he cracked his whip in the faces of ferocious kittehs!
"Senator Marco Rubio demanded “the I.R.S. commissioner’s resignation,” possibly unaware that the nation had not had an I.R.S. commissioner since last November."
BUT HEADS MUST ROLL! Shouts Senator Rubio to the crowd as he balances on the high wire! And the crowd moans Ooooooh! As he falls and hits the net!
Ooops!
Ladies and gentlemen under the Big Top watch as our brave and audacious GOP DEMANDS the head of Attorney General Eric Holder after he performed what they asked for!
"In the lead up to the 2012 elections, Republicans were upset that the Obama administration was getting such great press on national security issues, so they pretended to be upset about the national security implications of the leaks to the AP. In the spring of 2012, 31 Republicans called for AG Eric Holder to investigate the leaks after they accused the Obama administration of leaking stories about his toughness on terrorism to the press in order to win an election. The Hill reported on the Republicans’ letter:"
“The numerous national-security leaks reportedly originating out of the executive branch in recent months have been stunning,” they (Republicans) wrote to Holder. “If true, they reveal details of some of our nation’s most highly classified and sensitive military and intelligence matters, thereby risking our national security, as well as the lives of American citizens and our allies. If there were ever a case requiring an outside special counsel with bipartisan acceptance and widespread public trust, this is it,” they wrote.
"Republicans had really hoped the AP scandal would stick, especially with Benghazi Gate backfiring on them in numerous ways, not the least of which was the revelation on Tuesday that ABC had not actually read the emails the Republicans were using to indict the White House, and in fact the actual email said something quite different than was reported. It turned out that the email had been edited in the way it was reported so as to deliberately make Obama/Clinton look bad."
Who doesn't love a circus?!
The "lamestream" media (Sarah, you're so clevah!) will be sure to bring us all the latest in acrobatic wonders, high-wire feats, and daring-do that the House GOP will so eagerly and hilariously perform.
Don't miss it. Coming to your location via the intertoobz, the teevee, and all your pretty little tin-foil hats!
(And don't let that little bit of news about the deficit reduction get in the way of your little circus, GOPers, you wouldn't want the American people to, y'know, have anything good to say about President Obummer!)
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And it's all falling apart, much to the GOP's utter disappointment:
"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."
Of the two the IRS is the bigger deal. Something WE ALL should be concerned with. The threat created to liberty by government institutions run amuck is always present. When it occurs, regardless of the party in power it should be thouroghly investigated and appropriate measures put in place to make a repeat more difficult. For BOTH parties.
IRS scrutiny of groups applying for non profit status s hardly new, ask PETA and others.
It happens and reasonable efforts are made to curd it.
The AP incident is the most likely to be linked to the Whit House and it isn't getting much attention. As our privacy becomes compromised and the government becomes more opaque we are moving in a dangerous direction.
Shaw, do you ever listen to Jeff Kuhner, "Boston's Bulldozer"(accent on the bull), on WRKO? I thought I'd tune in and listen to what rabies radio has to say about it. Between drooling and frothing at the mouth there was copious use of "the 'I' word".
Absolutely insane.
Ducky, lots of people understand this circus is not about the GOP's tender feelings against government intrusion into people's lives.
If that were so, that would have been foaming at the mouth when GWB instituted the Patriot Act, and allowed AT&T and other communications entities to spy on the American people.
As you've said, our privacy was compromised most thoroughly by GWB.
And I don't like it one bit when PBO continues it.
Anyone using the "I" word is, of course, nothing more than a partisan hack, like Peggy Noonan, who stupidly declared in one of her gin-soaked columns that these issues are "worse than Watergate."
No wonder people hate pundits and politicians.
As our friend, the estimable Charlie Pierce, says, this is nothing more than ratfking.
PS. Never heard of Jeff Kuhner--did he replace Howie Carr?
The IRS situation is the bigger deal? Why? Those groups were asking for special consideration and it is completely proper that they should go through some scrutiny to get it. As I understand it none were turned down.
According to an LA Times article the real scandal is that "[the Conservative groups] are probably as engaged in partisan campaigning as Karl Rove or Jim Messina. [And] A 501(c)(4) group is, by law, supposed to be a social welfare organization whose primary activity is not politics".
The situation of "extra scrutiny" should never have arisen as they never should have been eligible for tax exempt status to begin with.
Spin it anyway you like WD. Reality is what it is and those with some sense of objective reasoning ought to see this for what it is.
Indeed partisan politics and the spin machine(s).
RN believes himself to be the one with the objective reasoning? I agree, although the objective of his reasoning is to rationalize greed... as is the case with all Objectivist Ayn Rand partisans... they spin the truth until it conforms to their self centered world view.
I would argue that, Objectivists, instead of being superior when it comes to reason (sound judgment; good sense), are actually among those with the least amount of it.
Whoah WDelusional, I do believe you THINK ya got it.
Congrats...
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