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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The list of scapegoats continues to grow. But this is a 'sideshow'. The really guilty one is 0bama.
Isn’t she the one who “flew” to Hawaii to personally pick up Soebarkah’s long form birth certificate?
Lanny is showing them the way out. You can bet there will be cushy landing for those who fall on the grenade for their _resident.
As if the president needed informing...
The cult members offer up sacrifices for the master.
Agreed, Boehners statement about prison time instead of resignations was directed at Government employees. Those employees were directed by theit bosses to break the law.
We need those employees to come forward and tell their story
So it’s not BO’s fault after all.
He didn’t know anything about this, his aides were keeping the info from him, he is shocked — SHOCKED! — I tell you to find out something like this was going on right in his own White House.
Yeah, right.
Looks like they found the fall guy(gal).
If they were to threaten some of these people with prosecution they could get them to tell what was really going on. Absent that threat they will probably succeed with the cover-up.
Ping!
They rigged an election and de-legitimized the government.
They need to go to jail.
It is getting crowded under Obamas’ bus and Hillarys’ too. The heavy weight fight is still over Benghazi, that is where people were left to die.
Obviously they did, Lanny.
Reward our friends, punish our enemies.
That is what they did, and that is the Chicago and the communist way.
..in order to accomplish Odungo’s wishes...she has to...
Sure Lanny you jerk,anybody but the transparent President,so transparent he is never seen or heard from unless he is stating its not my fault,I didn’t know anything about it
Lanny just trying to put the screws to Zippy on behalf of Cankles.
So predictable.
But, hey, he has a good point.
My thought exactly. They are building a firewall to protect Obama at the price of the women's career. What's the slaughter of a few innocents to save a king?
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