Posted on 05/15/2013 4:09:35 AM PDT by LD Jackson
The President is currently mired in three major scandals. We all know about Benghazi and the IRS Scandal. The third involves the Justice Department secretly obtaining the phone records of journalists at the Associated Press, allegedly for the purposes of discovering a whistleblower. The White House of course has directed the media to the Justice Department, who will no doubt either refuse to comment or send the press back to the White House. This is an issue that won’t go away, largely because the press has a vested interest in protecting their sources. How can we have a free press when the government spies on members of the media?
The IRS Scandal is completely blowing up on Obama. At yesterday’s press conference Obama claimed he learned about it when the media reported it. How can it be that the chief executive of the government not know about this scandal? Especially so when there were press reports about it over two years ago and the American Center for Law and Justice served upon Obama’s Chief of Staff an official complaint three weeks ago? Jay Carney acknowledges the White House found out three weeks ago. How is it Obama didn’t find out until last Friday? He’s either lying or a completely incompetent manager. Perhaps Valerie Jarrett is protecting the President from bad news but it’s on him to get rid of someone like Jarrett if she’s doing that. The scandal also extends beyond Cincinnati. The targeting was agency wide.
Yesterday Obama claimed that he called Benghazi a terrorist attack the very next day after it happened. No one is buying it, not even the liberal Washington Post. There is video out there of the President as late as September 26th claiming the video caused a riot which led to four American deaths. Drudge is reporting that a fourth bombshell is about to hit, perhaps from the CIA. It’s the CIA that Obama is currently blaming for the revisions to the administration talking points. One suspects that the CIA doesn’t think very much of being hung out to dry and as such they may be planning their revenge. Whether they release information about gun or missile running to Syria or if they release more information about the revisions remains to be seen. If there is one arm of the Federal government a President would be wise not to toy with it’s the CIA.
The question here is whether any of this reaches the level of an impeachable offense. As it stands today, there is not an impeachable offense. There is complete and utter incompetence within the Obama administration. Obama appears to be completely incapable of managing the executive branch. Right now his best argument is his own incompetence, his own mistakes. If he must blame someone, he can blame other people’s mistakes. As it stands today, there is no direct link between the IRS and the White House and no direct evidence that information was exchanged. In Benghazi there is evidence of extreme incompetence from Obama and the State Department. However until a weapon running scheme can be identified with hard evidence there isn’t an impeachable offense. As it stands on May 14th, 2013 we don’t yet have evidence that Obama engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors.
We have two choices with Obama, neither of them very good. We either believe he’s grossly incompetent or grossly evil. Today the conclusion reached must be grossly incompetent and thus he must not be impeached. As time goes on, that analysis may change as we don’t know what will be released in the coming days, weeks and months. We may discover a widespread scheme to threaten and harass whistleblowers, which could rise to the level of impeachable offense. We have to let the investigations play out. What sad position this country is in. It’s one thing to disagree with the President politically, it’s one thing to question his political moves. It’s another thing entirely when we are presented with a choice between our President being profoundly incompetent at managing the executive branch or profoundly evil in how he wields his power.
UPDATE: There appears to be anti-conservative bias throughout the Obama administration. At the EPA 92% of liberal groups FOIA requests saw their FOIA fees waived while 92% of conservative groups saw their requests for fee waivers rejected. The same thing appears to be happening at the FCC, where it rejects conservative FIOA requests and grants liberal FOIA requests. How far this bias goes is unknown at this point. It makes the IRS scandal less surprising and more business as usual for the Obama administration.
Somewhere, deep in the woods, there is a bear....
Elsewhere in Vatican City, there is a guy in white, who is Catholic.
Pitchman is Jay "stretch"(as in stretch the truth) Carney
And WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY out in Left Field is Obama saying, "Pay no attention to the scoreboard" No fatalities, no taps, no problems. It's a perfect game.
pallis ~:” If Obama is willing to throw agencies under the bus to protect himself, we should accommodate him.
Take the IRS, the State Department and Health and Human Services. Take the EPA.
Every time agencies follow Obama law over rule of law, excoriate the agency.
Take away Obama’s tools of destruction.
The House won’t vote to impeach Obama, and the Senate won’t convict him.
Use Congress and the courts to do a de facto impeachment of his liberal infrastructure.”
An Excellent post !
Defang the tiger by restricting his agencies of OVER REACH
A workable program for both the citizenry and the Congress
Now all that we need is a Congress with cajones and a conscience !!
First we need to replace his golfing buddy the Speaker.
Has he committed impeachable crimes Yes.
Fast & Furious, Yes
Benghazi, No while disgraceful, dishonest & incompetent, not illegal
IRS, Yes
AP, maybe.
The thing is he will not be impeached, he could be filmed on the WH lawn snipping a babies spine while Gosnell hilds the infant down, H Reid and a dem senate WILL NOR impeach Obama ever.
However this collection of scandals could cause the administration and dems to lose house seats and more house seats.
It can also kill Clinton’s Presidental aspirations, discredit the IRS which can set the stage for real Tax reform (Flat tax or Fair tax) and set the stage for the repeal of Obamacare (which the IRS is set to enforce).
Focus and play the cards as they lay, don’t try to do something that will not happen. Tar the dems with the administrations scandals. Investigate, assign blame, beat the bad guus.
DeWalt ~:” First we need to replace his golfing buddy the Speaker.”
You’ve got that right !
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