Posted on 05/17/2013 12:53:47 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
Things go wrong in government. Sometimes it’s just bad luck. Sometimes it’s rank incompetence. Sometimes it’s criminal wrongdoing. Most of the time you never hear about it. Or, if you do hear about it, the media eventually gets bored talking about it (see warming, global). But every so often an instance of government wrongdoing sprouts wings and becomes something quite exciting: A political scandal.
The crucial ingredient for a scandal is the prospect of high-level White House involvement and wide political repercussions. Government wrongdoing is boring. Scandals can bring down presidents, decide elections and revive down-and-out political parties. Scandals can dominate American politics for months at a time.
On Tuesday, it looked like we had three possible political scandals brewing. Two days later, with much more evidence available, it doesn’t look like any of them will pan out. There’ll be more hearings, and more bad press for the Obama administration, and more demands for documents.
But — and this is a key qualification — absent more revelations, the scandals that could reach high don’t seem to include any real wrongdoing, whereas the ones that include real wrongdoing don’t reach high enough. Let’s go through them.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
We get free BBQ? :)
Yes, we all remember”I don’t recall” repeated ad nauseam by the entire Clinton regime.
The GOP showed between Hoover and Reagan that they don't mind losing. As long as they get their share of the spoils from Big Government they are happy.
Nio; the perps were caught LYING about the data!
Wrong. Issa has done an OUTSTANDING job, and it continues.
The subpoenas are just beginning...
The garbage is rotting in the Washington compost.
Well new that the Democrats would use the Patriot Act as hammer once their party got into office.
When I was looking at the Post website last night Ezra Klein’s column was “Most Popular” of emailed articles. I chalked that up to panicky liberals reassuring each other. Because what each of these scandals has in common is that the White House, cabinet members and agency heads are stonewalling and lying to prevent the truth from coming out.
What is "perfect"?
bfl
GOP? I'm not going to say what the P stands for. I would get kicked off the site.
Great point. Follow the money.
You trust Ezra Klein to tell you the truth?
Okay....
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