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The scandals are falling apart (seriously)
Washington Post ^ | May 16, 2013 | Ezra Klein

Posted on 05/17/2013 12:53:47 PM PDT by Rennes Templar

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: delusional; ezraklein
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To: atc23

We get free BBQ? :)


61 posted on 05/17/2013 2:28:54 PM PDT by REDWOOD99 ("Everyone should pay taxes. Everyone should pay the same rate.)
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To: NELSON111

Yes, we all remember”I don’t recall” repeated ad nauseam by the entire Clinton regime.


62 posted on 05/17/2013 2:37:07 PM PDT by billyboy15
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To: lodi90
Well if the GOP does that they will lose, again.

The GOP showed between Hoover and Reagan that they don't mind losing. As long as they get their share of the spoils from Big Government they are happy.

63 posted on 05/17/2013 3:22:45 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Rennes Templar
Or, if you do hear about it, the media eventually gets bored talking about it (see warming, global).

Nio; the perps were caught LYING about the data!

64 posted on 05/17/2013 3:43:05 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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65 posted on 05/17/2013 4:07:38 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great natiorn is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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66 posted on 05/17/2013 4:08:30 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great natiorn is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: RIghtwardHo
Told ya Issa would screw this up.

Wrong. Issa has done an OUTSTANDING job, and it continues.

The subpoenas are just beginning...

67 posted on 05/17/2013 4:23:58 PM PDT by The Citizen Soldier (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everyone stands around reloading.)
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To: Rennes Templar

The garbage is rotting in the Washington compost.


68 posted on 05/17/2013 4:26:42 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: pallis

Well new that the Democrats would use the Patriot Act as hammer once their party got into office.


69 posted on 05/17/2013 4:55:39 PM PDT by oyez
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To: Rennes Templar

When I was looking at the Post website last night Ezra Klein’s column was “Most Popular” of emailed articles. I chalked that up to panicky liberals reassuring each other. Because what each of these scandals has in common is that the White House, cabinet members and agency heads are stonewalling and lying to prevent the truth from coming out.


70 posted on 05/17/2013 6:01:24 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
No one is ever perfect enough on this site.

What is "perfect"?

71 posted on 05/19/2013 8:22:52 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Mears

bfl


72 posted on 05/19/2013 8:27:42 PM PDT by Mears
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To: lodi90
What will the GOP do about it?

GOP? I'm not going to say what the P stands for. I would get kicked off the site.

73 posted on 05/19/2013 8:38:59 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: lodi90

Great point. Follow the money.


74 posted on 05/19/2013 8:46:23 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: RIghtwardHo
Told ya Issa would screw this up.

You trust Ezra Klein to tell you the truth?

Okay....

75 posted on 05/19/2013 8:50:06 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE --)
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