Scandalous
Everyone loves a good political scandal!
There are three scandals in Washington -- at the same time -- any one of which Republicans believe could bring down the Obama administration!
Political scandals can fill the news cycle for hours on end. Juicy new details can keep it in the media for days. Fictional facts can drag it out for weeks.
A minor problem, a lapse in judgement, a mistake that can be easily fixed is not exciting. A party filibustering everything introduced by the President isn't, unfortunately, interesting.
But a scandal?
The three storms brewing on Capitol Hill are the Benghazi attack, the IRS improprieties and the AP phone taps. Flames of all three are being fanned by Republicans in an attempt to discredit the president by declaring each a scandal and implying White House involvement.
And Republicans should know a good scandal.
Let's see, there's the Iran Contra scandal under Reagan, and then there was Watergate under Nixon. Oh, and lying about WMD's to get us into the Iraq war. I think that was George W. Bush. Each pursued with direct knowledge and involvement of the president.
And, lest we forget, Scooter Libby, under the direction of the vice president, leaked the identity of a covert operative putting many lives in jeopardy.
Republicans try desperately to link the White House to each of these incidents. They're so desperate that they continue to waste taxpayer money to get at their trumped up truth with new hearings and new revelations including a phony quotation from an -mail regarding Benghazi proffered by Jonathan Karl for ABC News!
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