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Seattle talk show host Michael Medved who is conservative on most issues LOOOVES Lanny Davis. Then again, Hannity shares his dinner table with Bob Beckel ...you just never know.
Posted on 05/22/2013 9:38:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The growing IRS-Tea Party scandal, which has robbed Democrats of the so-called "trust edge" they held over Republicans, is now jeopardizing the Democratic majority in the Senate and even hopes that Hillary Clinton will replace President Obama in 2016.
"This hurts the Democratic Party and will hurt anybody who runs for president in 2016," said former Clinton White House counsel Lanny Davis, a major supporter of Hillary Clinton. Speaking on national radio's Andrea Tantaros Show, he added: "It will make it almost impossible to elect a [Democratic] president. ... I'm nervous."
Meanwhile, several Democratic and GOP political advisers told Secrets that the combined scandals — IRS, Benghazi and the media source hunt — threatens the Democrats' grip on the Senate. House advisers are even predicting that Republicans will pick up nearly 10 seats if the scandals continue to eat away at trust in the Democratic Party.
Davis, who is out with a new book on how to deal with scandals, "Crisis Tales: Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics, and Life," slammed the Obama communications and legal offices, suggesting that the president's top lawyer is in over her head and should resign. He also criticized White House spokesman Jay Carney's jumbled handling of the IRS scandal.
Davis, who handled Clinton scandal issues, dismissed some polls showing that Obama has maintained a level approval rating. "This is going to eat away at his approval ratings," he said....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
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Seattle talk show host Michael Medved who is conservative on most issues LOOOVES Lanny Davis. Then again, Hannity shares his dinner table with Bob Beckel ...you just never know.
There is a new scandal opening up today that will add to the list of Democrat crimes and misdemeanors.
Kathleen Sebelious has been traveling the country, soliciting funds from private insurers to fund the healthcare exchanges. It is illegal for the government to solicit funds to finance government action that Congress has voted to withhold, that is what Oliver North was prosecuted for.
Interestingly, Drudge has a headline that several large California insurers have stated that they will not participate in the exchanges. My guess is that these insurers saw the handwriting on the wall in regard to the illegal government solicitation of funds and did not want any part of it.
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