Scandals? What scandals?
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough…wants to cap at 10 percent the amount of White House time that gets spent responding to the furors of the moment rather than advancing the president’s broader agenda.
Among other White House staff, solace is taken from a number of factors.
First, they believe that there is no direct link between the president and any of the misbehavior that is being probed.
Second, they contend that the only thing that could truly jeopardize him, or his top aides, is inappropriate meddling in future investigations or those currently underway.
Third, they say that maintaining a steady focus on the large issues of national importance will pay off in the long run.
Obama has bigger fish to fry. Full steam ahead.
And he believes—perhaps rightly—that he has kept his fingerprints off everything.
There is little question in my mind that Obama will not be impeached. To get Democrats to turn on him, it would take the uncovering of evidence so powerful, overwhelming, and terrible that I can’t quite imagine what it would be. So the real question is how much of the Obama agenda the current Republican House will be able to stop, and what will happen to the makeup of Congress in the 2014 election.
As for Holder, my predication is that, unless he is removed by impeachment or conviction of a crime, Obama will stand by him.
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough…wants to cap at 10 percent the amount of White House time that gets spent responding to the furors of the moment rather than advancing the president’s broader agenda.
In other words, “I don’t have the time to answer your question.”
The White House could save a lot of time by simply giving a candid and truthful answer THE FIRST TIME a question is asked. When an obviously mendacious and/or inadequate answer is given the first time to a question, odds are the question will be repeated in another form at a later time.
Obama has NOT kept his fingerprints off everything but (so far) its all circumstantial and, while damning to any objective viewer, it is inadequate to implement and pass impeachment.
In the face of the left’s placement of ideology over any other concern, impeachment requires evidence so direct and compelling that to deny impeachment would place the very survival of the democrat party at risk.
Successful continuance of the Obama agenda and what will happen to the makeup of Congress in the 2014 election is directly dependent upon how much more whistle blower testimony emerges and how damaging that testimony is to Obama.
Obama won’t be impeached but if his reputation and credibility continues to substantially decline, democrats will not regain the House and his agenda will continue to be stalled.
As for Holder, Obama will stand by him as long as practicable, but it is the Republicans who shall determine his fate. The hard evidence that Holder blatantly lied under oath during Congressional hearings is unquestionable and undeniable. It literally cannot be spun.
Holder faces a 5 yr prison sentence if the republicans push it. IF being the keyword. Holder going to prison would damage Obama’s credibility tremendously, which is why democrats are certain to fight tenaciously against Holder being prosecuted.
That is exactly why principled Republican’s should do all they can to hold Holder accountable for his perjury. If enough Republican’s refuse to allow Holder to escape from his perjury, Holder is likely to resign in an attempt to protect Obama’s reputation.
Republican RINOS however are likely to seize upon promised future ‘compromises’ by democrats in exchange for backing the democrats. If they do so, there is an excellent chance that Holder will retain his position.
When sacrifice of principle is required to effect ‘compromise’… betrayal, treachery and self-interest always lie at the heart of the matter.
Geoffrey Britain: what fingerprints has Obama put on it?
Logic and knowledge of Obama indicates he’s behind most, if not all, of it. But that’s not fingerprints. Fingerprints are hard evidence.
I was speaking of fingerprints figuratively rather than the literalness of hard evidence. But I would argue that the circumstantial evidence extends beyond logic and reason.
Obama met with the anti-Tea Party IRS union chief the day before the IRS targeted the Tea Party. They didn’t meet to exchange recipes. That timing is just too exact to be coincidental.
“For me, it’s about collaboration.” – National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union and the Obama White House
The NTE union has an inordinate amount of influence in the IRS and since it is not part of the administration it provides Obama a convenient way to send a message without a paper trail.
I would also offer as additional circumstantial evidence the coordinated attack upon the ‘True the Vote’ organization. When the IRS, FBI, ATF and OSHA are all involved successive, repeated and multiple coordinated attacks, it strains credulity past the breaking point to suggest that Obama didn’t know.
Provable hard evidence? No, of course not but then again no one can ‘prove’ that the sun’s going to rise tomorrow either. As someday the sun is going to go nova.
The phrase “Thick as thieves” comes to mind.
During Watergate the Nixon administration went through a similar “the President is too busy to be bothered with these trivialities” phase. This is to be expected.
That said, unless unavoidable impeachment subject NOT be the objective. That would be really ugly all the way around. Besides, do we really want President Joe Biden?
subjectshouldI agree that the Democrats will never turn on Obama.
I agree that Holder is Obama’s linchpin.
However, events in the world are rapidly spinning out of control, and cannot be re-spun by Obama’s rhetoric.
I’m not sure if I believe McDonough’s 10% rule, but in either case, it hurts the administration. If they do devote only 10% of their time on scandals, their cover-up(s) will fail. To the extent that they are forced to spend more than 10% on damage control, it will detract from their agenda.
Bottom line is that the Republicans have to go hard after Holder. They have the evidence — do they have the will?
McDonough’s rule reminds me of Bill Clinton’s motto during his troubles. Paraphrasing here: “I don’t have time to answer all these baseless partisan attacks. I need to spend my time working for the American people.”
It worked for Clinton, it’ll probably work for Obama as well.
“do we really want President Joe Biden?”
Yes. Simple incompetence can never achieve the evil that mendacity can and this President means America harm.
“Bottom line is that the Republicans have to go hard after Holder. They have the evidence – do they have the will?”
That is, when all is said and done, the foremost question.
They cannot rely on ever more whistle blowers to emerge until the democrats must sacrifice Obama to save the party. They have to seize the day or they may find themselves directly complicit in their own country’s downfall.
There is ONLY one scandal that could end in impeachment and conviction: Benghazigate.
But, you have to get to the bottom of the rabbit hole.
He was running a private war — and cutting the Senators out of the loop.
This is the source of his recent decision to declare the war over. Terminating his private little war will coincide with terminating the public face of the war, too.
He can’t shove his private muslim outreach project onto anyone else.
There are no other bodies that he can use as under-bussers.
The other scandals are horrific — and have been released to divert attention from the killer — “Squirrel.”
We saw this same deflection gambit during the Vietnam War: RMN was just too busy to waste time with Congress.
It hardly needs mention, but Buraq is already running his show without Congress — to include the Senate and the Black Caucus.
They’re in tow — somewhere in back — the caboose, I’d say.
Forward.
Weird how he mimics the Soviets and the Nazis. Neither was much for truth or back-tracking.
I believe that the other scandals have been released to distract from Benghazi, not to protect the President from impeachment; because IMHO, that will never ever be a possiblity.
It is because the only scandal that can hurt Saint Hillary the Chosen Heir to the Leftist Throne, is Benghazi. Getting the party of stupid to focus on AP Reporters getting spied on and the IRS targeting conservative groups that have pretty much been discredited and de-balled anyway through repeated sliming (like Sarah Palin was) suits the Left just fine. It suits the media just fine too. None of that will stick to her.
The left is, as always, playing the long game; while the right is, as always, going to play into their hands.
There will be fussing and fuming and capital hill battles over whether the IRS lady’s 5th Amendment will stick; what becomes of Holder; etc. “Look! It’s a Holder squirral!”
In the mean time, she stays removed, apart, and above the fray.
While all the non-Benghazi scandals take up all of the party of stupid’s time and energy, Benghazi itself, when it is ever raised on the sidelines, will be repeatedly referred to as a “so-called” scandal…over and over and over again.
The msm propaganda machine will work overtime (just as it worked overtime in 2008 to very successfully slime Palin and scare off voters, and in 2012 very successfully convinced a sufficient number of voters that Romney was a heartless plutocrat) to convince a sufficient percentage of the electorate that A) the GOP by finally bringing Benghazi back up after the dust settles on Snoopgate/IRS gate is just “piling on” regarding this “so-called” scandal; and B) It is old news and why can’t we just move on to do the people’s business, like pass “common sense” “gun violence” legislation; and C) Pursuing this non-scandal is purely and solely a politically motivated attack on Hillary – which is as “hateful” and as “sexist” as those questions about Barry’s hidden past back in 08 were “racist.”
Questions regarding what sort of schooling did Barry get as a child in Indonesia, why did he go to Pakistan while in college and what did he do while there and what passport did he use, why are there no records available as to: how he got in, and what he did while there, at Occidental and Columbia, etc., etc., were all lumped in together with the riduculed, maligned, and eventually shut down “crazy birther” inquiries….
Watch for the same tactics to be employed against any who dare raise questions as to what the hell Hillary did for four years as Sec of State. Including the events during the month of Benghazi.
The only real bump in the road for the Left’s long term agenda is that all these scandals MAY impede their objective to re-take the House in 2014 (with emphasis on the word “may,” since there are no doubt carefully crafted voter fraud plans in the works as we speak for certain chosen “targeted” congress seats where the outcome may be close) But since it is the Long Game that really matters – the focus will simply shift to 2016.
Such is the power of the Leftist alliance that few ever imagined how far they had gone. And how little the efforts of Light stood up against true Evil.
The weak desires and will, the lack of resoluteness, could be summed up this way.
Worse than the Helots owned by Sparta; at least the helots fought well at Thermopylae.