And where are you left hanging when Eric the red Holder finds there was a warrant and the media pound the dumbed down public with assertions of republicant witch hunts when the warrants were aimed at catch a leaker aiding ‘the enemy’? Stuff your tinfoil where the sun don’t shine if you think the democrips are not capable of feeding a ‘scandal’ to the eager beavers. Monica was a reality but that ‘scandal’ was fed as a distraction from real treasonous acts involving the chicoms, or don’t you remmber those days?
So far, the major protestation has come from the AP CEO’s letter to Holder (and a bit from the media). If Holder has a warrant, he should produce it now. If he pulls the warrant out of his ass only after allowing the Congress to go on with expensive, time-consuming hearings over this, that will be another scandal in and of itself.
What the GOP should do, while they have Holder on the Hill tomorrow, is simply ask, Did you get a warrant for this?
Okay, I didn't realize the suit was tinfoil as well. But I agree that, if underlying conditions are right, one scandal can be a distraction from a worse one. And yes indeed, the Clinton gang, since they couldn't control him, used that technique to great effect. So far, that hasn't been Zippy's MO; he's a control freak. His method has been to just terrorize reporters into never mentioning a scandal. So Zippy is not happy about this turn of events at all.
It's possible that the IRS thing could be a fortunate distraction from Benghazi, with the result that both go nowhere like opposite charges adding to zero. It's also possible that each event will add to the other, and even multiply it. People really, really have no sense of humor about the IRS. If it looks to great masses of people as if Zippy's on the IRS's side against them, it's not good. Maybe it can be recovered from, depending on other, invisible things in the culture and the world, not to mention the administration, but none of this is good. It's not what they were planning, or hoping for, or expecting. It's real bad.
It's our job to keep the powder dry, focus on opportunity (as opposed to futility), and take effective action as citizens. We can't be so expert at futility that we pass up opportunities to exert pressure where it can help break through the bad guys' armor. My observation is that too many cries of, "Don't be fooled! We're all doomed!" can paralyze good people into inaction. And what we need now is lots of action. "The game's afoot!"