To be fair, poor financial performance is more down to simple naivete and incompetence than scandal.
It is the same naivete that has Obama living in a fool’s paradise. He gets fawning press from a politically aligned media and thinks he’s doing a great job and a clean one. The IRS scandal, for instance, had motive and opportunity. The plan and the coordination originated in the White House because...they could originate nowhere else. Obama himself has dropped hints left and right with his constant harangues against any and all critics, especially any organized opposition. His ego, his hard-core Marxism and his obvious glee at wielding the levers of power al mean that it is a dead cert that Obama initiated the IRS targeting.
The media largely refused to cover the most obvious timing and circumstances so by their standard it’s not a full-on scandal. Quite convenient.
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"Don't worry, Mr President, the Dept of the Treasury is under your control."
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ONCE UPON A TIME, IN THE PRIVILIGED ENCLAVES OF
OUR NATION'S CAPITAL, RHAM EMANUEL HELD TWO JOBS Soon as they occupied the WH, Obama and the Chicago con artists (a) took control of the US Census; (b) Obama placed his COS Rahm Emanuel in control of the US Dept of the Treasury (oversees the IRS).
PAUSE TO REFLECT First-term Obama had tight control of Treasury; Obama calculatedly placed his then-COS Rahm Emanuel in a dual role.......in the WH and at Treasury. Obama had a stranglehold on Treasury via COS Rahm Emanuel's dual role
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THE SMOKING GUN---WSJ REPORT--On Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the Obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.
When he got to Treasury, WH COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers, prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09
More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html
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