Posted on 05/17/2013 5:54:45 AM PDT by Hojczyk
If it’s true, it would be the first time anyone has linked the issue in any way to the White House. Lanny Davis writes in The Hill today that he’s heard White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler knew for “several weeks” without informing Barack Obama, and she needs to resign … if his sources are correct.
So who are his sources? Hmmmm:
I’ve been told today by several reporters that President Obama’s White House counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, knew for several days — perhaps weeks —that some Internal Revenue Service officials were engaging in political targeting of conservative groups, and that she did not tell the president as soon as she knew even partial reports about the story.
With all due respect to someone who has impeccable legal credentials, if she did have such foreknowledge and didn’t inform the president immediately, I respectfully suggest Ms. Ruemmler is in the wrong job and that she should resign.
The White House counsel to the president, one of the two or three most important positions on the White House staff, must be more than a great lawyer, which Ms. Ruemmler reportedly is. The White House counsel must also have a sensitive political and media ear — in other words, must be a first-rate crisis manager who understands the fundamental need to get the president out in front of the facts, and not be reactive or overly legalistic in determining crisis management strategy.
If Ms. Ruemmler did know about this IRS story and didn’t inform the president immediately, then, respectfully, that must mean she didn’t appreciate fully the mammoth legal and political implications for the U.S. government as well as the American people of a story involving IRS officials abusing power and possibly violating criminal laws. The story itself would be huge
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Kathryn Ruemmler will be promoted
Is the Pope Catholic?
Resignations are completely unacceptable for anyone involved in this government abuse of power. Jail time is a MUST.
Upon learning this morning that the person in charge of the stalling/rejecting Conservative 501C4 applications at the Cincinnati IRS office was promoted to head.....wait for it.... the IRS division running CommieCare my head wanted to explode.
There can be no excuse for allowing this Federal government to continue in its present form. It used to be just the State Department was infested with Communists, now I am positive the IRS, EPA, DHS, DOJ have completely compromised and must be completely purged with significant jail time as punishment. Fines only hurt ourselves as we end up paying he fines.
Lanny is on the scene. The result will be President Hillary for sure.
The fact she gets beat all to hell in 2013 doesn’t mean that enough lies can’t be told to produce a favorable outcome in 2016
Will she head up a Death Panel, ya think?
No no, it’s “poof” that Lanny wants. Barney wants “pwoof.” Please learn your lib faggotry skills....LOL
She needs to Resign?
She needs to go to jail. Along with the rest of the perps.
She didn’t tell him because he already knew. He’d given the orders.
Looks like Clinton’s doing in OBAMA???
Bing Bing Bing We have a winner!
This is not doing in Obama. This is saving Obama, by constructing a story that shields him from having had direct knowledge. He is just an innocent victim.
One word: RICO
It’s not just for prosecution of ‘the mob’ (contrary to popular opinion) ...
I agree, BUT the folks giving him cover may get jittery at the prospect of serious prison time. The water is just getting warm now; boiling isn't far off.
Miss Ruemmler was born in 1971. Her education and experience are insufficiently broad to be an effective counsel to the President, and it shows.
Poor Barack. Seems like all of his subordinates are cooking up grandiose schemes and keeping him in the dark...
This may hurt him if it can be shown to the low information voter that his MO is willful ignorance. We know it is. The MSM and most voters don't see it...yet. Hopefully they will.
This was true in 2001, also, but GWB didn't want to deal with the media outcry if he systematically removed all of the Clinton holdovers from their positions - no matter what Clinton himself had done to the US Attorneys when he took office. It was thought at the time that some noble ideals about stability and continuity of government were more important. Thus GWB spent eight years dealing with internal saboteurs.
To me all that really means is that if an incoming President has to fire half of Washington to get anything accomplished, the Administration is far too large and powerful and needs to be radically downsized, anyway.
Remember Al Gore's famous excuse "No controlling legal authority?" It has turned into a way of life in DC, as these bureaucrats know they can do whatever they want with no real danger of prosecution.
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