Charles Krauthammer: IRS Scandal Could Be a ‘Fatal Problem’ for Obama

The Blaze ^ | May 18, 2013 | Madeleine Morgenstern

[2ndDivisionVet]

Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on Friday said the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative organizations could be “fatal” for the Obama administration if it turns out that anyone in the White House was aware of it.

Appearing on Fox News’ “Hannity,” Krauthammer called the IRS situation “the one scandal that people have a visceral sense about” — it’s the one U.S. institution, besides the military, that can do very serious harm.

Going after conservative groups based on their politics is “a violation that everybody — left or right– understands,” he added.

Krauthammer urged that there’s no suggestion that Obama knew what was happening, “but if there’s any indication that there were people in the White House who knew, who orchestrated, who encouraged or whatever, then it can be a fatal problem.”

Obama ducked a direct question on Thursday about whether he or anyone else in the White House had known what was happening....

[2ndDivisionVet]

I tend to disagree. This guy has survived a dozen or more things that would've sunk a Republican or moderate Democrat.

[C. Edmund Wright]

It’s not about Obama and it doesn’t make a bit of difference if they knew it or not. This will undermine people’s faith in big government liberalism and bureaucracies period.

[Travis McGee]

I heard a rumor that a certain 4-star general has been spending a lot of time with Bob Woodward.

[P-Marlowe]

Krauthammer urged that there’s no suggestion that Obama knew what was happening....

That could be said about everything that has happened since he took office.

[rickmichaels]

...Krauthammer on Friday said the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative organizations could be “fatal” for the Obama administration...

Wouldn't be surprised if Mr. K was paid a nice, friendly visit by the Secret Service. I wonder if that agency has been infected like the IRS has been.

[gorush]

The zeitgeist is such that no major punishment will devolve to those responsible. The marxist takeover will continue even if they must take two steps back at this point.

[Gay State Conservative]

Krauthammer may well be correct.However,I'd bet the clothes on my back that the MSM,somehow,won't be able to find any WH knowledge/involvement (assuming that there is involvement) and that the Rats in the House and Senate won't allow any evidence of involvement to come to light.

[chris37]

Could be, but likely will not be.

[Mouton]

Perhaps that is why his excellency so carefully parsed wording and deflected the question about whom knew in the White House about the IRS problem. He said he became aware of the IG report when it was leaked to the papers. Ha!

These guys have an enemies list but it is not limited to individual names, it is anyone or anything that disagrees with anything they say or do. That is the message they have passed down to the troglodytes in the various agencies and departments and they have been very open about it.

[driftdiver]

It happened under his watch. He is the President and HE is responsible.

[Gay State Conservative]

Wouldn't be surprised if Mr. K was paid a nice, friendly visit by the Secret Service.

No,not the Secret Service...but I hope that he has a *very* skilled tax accountant.Osama Obama wouldn't have the least problem seeing Krauthammer wheeled away to a Federal prison for about 5 years.

[C. Edmund Wright]

...which was a pretty pathetic parse if you ax me....I bet Clinton was laughing when he heard that....

[holden]

If the idea jumped from Jarrett to Geithner when he was Treasury Secretary, good luck on either of them ratting on the big cheese!   I'd nonetheless say that's probably how it went: 0/J -> TG -> Schulman@IRS. Surely others would have known, but are any of those risk-takers?

HF

[muawiyah]

Obama is, of course, a very stupid man.

[Mouton]

It was more than obvious but no one is going to question him. A worthwhile reporter would have said, OK, so much for the IG report but that is not what I asked. Anyone confronting him with that question would have gotten the mau mau stare down.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[rickmichaels]

Very true. Hard to believe what is happening these days. Carter and Clinton were patriots compared to Zero.

[Mouton]

I wish Gen Al was there now.

[LucianOfSamasota]

‘Fatal’ is a big word.

But it would sure be a good thing for the United States.

[Vaquero]

I wonder if that agency has been infected like the IRS has been.

The whole dang government. How many General officers in the military are Gone...Fired...Resigned.

Don't let your kids join up. It will be in the zer0 regimes private army. The Marxist Islamic Army of zer0merica