I think that scandal is parked for the fall period. There are probably a dozen scandals lined up, and the remaining three years will just be one after another. There’s virtually nothing that the administration can do in stopping them. Avoiding the special prosecutor simply helps make each one more painful.
Also, the general concept of taking down the Republican dealerships...was to have more influence on local and state elections. Well...they couldn’t touch the imports or the Ford company. So they picked up the slack.
I think this is probably true. Very true.
I think they have some manageable 'cases' still out there they can use to deflect attention from real problems.
To me while the IRS SCANDAL is important, it detracts from the investigation and dissemination of information to the citizen. There are a couple-three days worth of missing emails, no one has proved what Obama was doing, etc. It is likely THE most ever sordid, complicit act of dereliction, scheming and incompetence that was choreographed to cover up something else.
As for the AP thing, I think they were looking for a leak source, clumsily and too broadly. The 'broadly' part was purposeful so they could gather any unpleasant or blackmailable facts to use against AP reporters when needed. And if anyone thinks Holder recused himself, they are an idiot. No lawyer anywhere would 'recuse' himself from something which could later be actionable without documenting it.