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Scandal politics sweep Capitol Hill
politico ^ | 5/13/13 | Jake Sherman & Lauren French

Posted on 05/13/2013 7:32:50 PM PDT by Nachum

Scandal politics are sweeping Capitol Hill. Just days after news broke that the IRS targeted conservative nonprofits, Speaker John Boehner’s House committees will morph into mock courtrooms where the White House will be the defendant in what amounts to a number of high-stakes political trials.The most recent scandal to grip the Obama administration came Monday evening, when The Associated Press disclosed that the Justice Department sought its reporters’ phone records — including those of correspondents who sit in the Capitol. Within hours, House Republicans vowed to investigate. To make things worse for President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder

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Up yours, Jake. If it were Bush you'd be calling it 'high crimes'.
1 posted on 05/13/2013 7:32:50 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

It’s about time. This administration has been getting away with murder because their toads in their “media” aren’t doing their jobs. Or maybe they are.


2 posted on 05/13/2013 7:34:32 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you think ObamaCare is a train wreck, wait until you see the amnesty bill.)
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To: Nachum

Looks like this second term is going to shape up like every other in the past 40+ years. Scandal, incompetence, and early lame-duckness.


3 posted on 05/13/2013 7:35:52 PM PDT by ilgipper (The lesson for the GOP is simple - don't let the opposition define you)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
I have been so frustrated that this man has been getting away with so much.

But perhaps that was God's plan. The more he got away with...the bolder he got. Who knows what all he has done that will come out...and he did it because he got away with so much and got arrogant.

God will not be mocked...and that is why HE is in charge.

4 posted on 05/13/2013 7:37:32 PM PDT by NELSON111
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To: Nachum

The smarminess and snarkation won’t work this time. We are on to it...snicker,snort...


5 posted on 05/13/2013 7:42:09 PM PDT by Shady (Libya shows us how Americans rate...)
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To: Nachum

“Well, we’re really in the crap now. The hounds are after us. How are we going to get out of this mess?”

“We give the hounds a different fox to chase.”

“Who’s that going to be?”

“Holder.”

“You want me to throw Eric to the Republicans?”

“Yeah. I already asked him. He wants to quit anyway.”

“OK, then, Eric gets to lead the hounds for awhile.”


6 posted on 05/13/2013 7:42:26 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: NELSON111
Simpler answer ~ our God didn't need to get his hands dirty in this one ~ his god did it all. Obama is congenitally stupid and he can't attracted talented people to work in his regime.

That's a recipe for disaster.

Here's the disaster!

Obama still has no idea what's the right thing to do.

7 posted on 05/13/2013 7:43:29 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Nachum

Now it is being reported that the IRS gave left-wing reporters private information on conservative groups.


8 posted on 05/13/2013 7:43:52 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (All abortionists are Gosnells!)
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To: Nachum

Impeachment File on Benghazi Coward B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of the sovereign Nation of Indonesia.


9 posted on 05/13/2013 7:45:27 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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Those red lips are from kissing Obama's ass.

10 posted on 05/13/2013 7:47:22 PM PDT by kcvl
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Now it is being reported that the IRS gave left-wing reporters private information on conservative groups.

I’m not surprised. I’d have been shocked if they weren’t.


11 posted on 05/13/2013 7:47:49 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: EternalVigilance

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) today renewed its demand that the Internal Revenue Service reveal the identity of the employee or employees responsible for stealing the organization’s confidential Form 990 tax return and leaking it to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). At the time of the theft, the HRC had long-sought to know the identity of NOM’s major donors and its chief executive was a co-chair of President Obama’s reelection campaign. The Form 990 that was leaked to the HRC contained the identity of numerous major donors to the organization.

“There is little question that one or more employees at the IRS stole our confidential tax return and leaked it to our political enemies, in violation of federal law,” said Brian Brown, NOM’s president. “The only questions are who did it, and whether there was any knowledge or coordination between people in the White House, the Obama reelection campaign and the Human Rights Campaign. We and the American people deserve answers.”

In March 2012 the Human Rights Campaign and the Huffington Post published NOM’s Form 990 Schedule B from 2008 containing the identity of dozens of donors. The HRC claimed the tax return was provided by a ‘whistleblower.’ For months previous to the publication, the HRC had been demanding that NOM publicly release this confidential information even though federal law protects the identity of contributors to nonprofit groups. The publication of NOM’s tax return occurred just a few months after Joseph Solmonese, then president of the HRC, was appointed a national co-chair of the Obama reelection campaign. An analysis of the published documents shows that they could only have originated with the IRS.

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/13/what-has-the-irs-been-leaking-on-conservative-groups/

Ben Domenech pointed out that the conservative think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation had its entire donor list leaked to a liberal Texas publication in 2012.


12 posted on 05/13/2013 7:52:40 PM PDT by kcvl
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You know, if I were going to pick a giant media organization to spy on and tick off, I don’t think AP would be my first choice. After all they’ve done for him, for Obamacare, after all they’ve covered up to advance his career ... this is the thanks they get. I think this was a very short-sighted move. Now the Obama administration has demonstrated it maintains the equivalent of an enemies list, and there’s no giant media organization on his side to defend him. All he has left is MSNBC.


13 posted on 05/13/2013 8:16:05 PM PDT by La Lydia
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Obama: “I didn’t know anything about the IRS allegations until I read them in the papers like everyone else last Friday” - chilling - years ago when I worked in a state psychiatric hospital, we had an elaborate administrator on-call system to handle any crises or incidents that came up after normal duty hours - why? - no so much to guarantee effective patient care (there were already doctors and nurses on duty to see to that) but to make sure the people “in Trenton” up to and including if need be the governor’s office were notified of any potentially embarrassing situations and or, more appropriately, issues which would need to be handled at that level - that Obama claims not to have known what was going on at IRS means he’s a lousy administrator - that he doesn’t even seem to realize how bad he looks claiming he doesn’t know makes him a stupid one, and that’s frightening......


14 posted on 05/13/2013 9:11:18 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Nachum

not one journOlist has said “rule of law”.

the talking point list has gone out.

we are now fighting rule of the bully.


15 posted on 05/13/2013 9:17:50 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: muawiyah

some power that be is tossing obama under the bus?

the big boy adults need his wings cliped.


16 posted on 05/13/2013 9:22:01 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Nachum

So which one of the ‘leaked’ scandals is little barry abstard boy’s Monica diversion for the feckless republicants? The media will give us lots of clues since they refuse to actually report the truth on Benghazi which could get their little bastard impeached. Which of the ‘scandals’ will catch the shiny object sheeple attention so Benghazi is set aside?


17 posted on 05/13/2013 9:24:46 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Nachum
It's another brainless Politico wonk so try to adjust for a certain lack of perspective. The spin is that it's just politics, just another way for one side to get leverage over the other. The fact that four people died in Benghazi is only another playing piece on a game board. The fact that Nixon had to leave office for a coverup and IRS abuse far less than these is only a historical curiosity. The fact that innocent Mexican victims had to die at the hands of drug cartels in order to plant evidence against American gun owners is just a failed ploy. It's all just "scandal politics" and the dead behind those scandals have no voice, no significance, in the estimation of young Mr. Sherman.

He will never understand what is really going on here. It's all just facade, posture, maneuver to him, as it is to 0bama and his staff of thugs and radicals. They don't get it, they won't get it, their self-absorbed little lives are withered and sere and at the end of it all will be nothing more than a small-type footnote on a historical page that nobody will read.

18 posted on 05/13/2013 9:34:07 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: NELSON111

When BO won in 2012, I figured God had a better plan of bringing him down than just letting him go off and live in Hawaii. Things are shaping up nicely—Thank you God!


19 posted on 05/13/2013 9:40:33 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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nobama is squirming a bit? Bwaaaaahahaha!


20 posted on 05/13/2013 10:32:35 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp?)
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