We have reached a new low in the efforts by Democrat insiders and the media to protect president Obama and the Obamacrats from the effects of the ongoing scandals in Washington. Here is the latest: Obama and his people did not commit any crimes; they are just totally incompetent. Everything that happened was just bumbling by the Obamacrats; there was no criminal activity. Oh, and add in the old chestnut, Republicans are overreacting to all of these stories.
Bob Shrum, a Democrat politico who has an unblemished record of losing national races, wrote a column just out that puts forth this new thesis for the defense of Obama. Shrum says that the conduct of the White House was stupid, bumbling, and grossly incompetent. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE DEFENDING OBAMA.
Let's just stop here for a moment. It is a rather telling indicator of just how bad things in Washington have gotten for Obama that the new defense is that Obama and his people are incompetent boobs. Do the folks like Shrum really think that telling America that the president is a fool who cannot manage anything is likely to improve his popularity. I can hear the argument: Iran may get a nuclear weapon, but we better not do anything to stop that because Obama will undoubtedly mess it up. Or how about this one: the economy is still limping along, but Obama has no program to help it because he knows that if he does anything, he is most likely just to make things worse. Those are hardly rallying cries to excite anyone.
The truth, however, is even worse than incompetence. We know that Attorney General Eric Holder did not tell congress the truth when he testified under oath about secret surveillance of reporters. We know that someone in Washington ordered that no action be taken to try to send forces to protect the embassy in Benghazi. We know that someone in the White House or the State Department dreamed up the youtube video story as a cover designed to trick the American people into ignoring what actually happened in Libya. We know that the IRS targeted groups and individuals on the basis of their politcal or religious beliefs and then persecuted those targets. We also know that the White House staff and the leadership of the Treasury Department knew about this illegal misconduct long before the story broke. It seems likely that they told Obama as well, but we are not supposed to believe that. This is a scandal, not just incompetence. Shrum is correct that there is incompetence as part of the package, but there is a whole lot more.
Bob Shrum, a Democrat politico who has an unblemished record of losing national races, wrote a column just out that puts forth this new thesis for the defense of Obama. Shrum says that the conduct of the White House was stupid, bumbling, and grossly incompetent. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE DEFENDING OBAMA.
Let's just stop here for a moment. It is a rather telling indicator of just how bad things in Washington have gotten for Obama that the new defense is that Obama and his people are incompetent boobs. Do the folks like Shrum really think that telling America that the president is a fool who cannot manage anything is likely to improve his popularity. I can hear the argument: Iran may get a nuclear weapon, but we better not do anything to stop that because Obama will undoubtedly mess it up. Or how about this one: the economy is still limping along, but Obama has no program to help it because he knows that if he does anything, he is most likely just to make things worse. Those are hardly rallying cries to excite anyone.
The truth, however, is even worse than incompetence. We know that Attorney General Eric Holder did not tell congress the truth when he testified under oath about secret surveillance of reporters. We know that someone in Washington ordered that no action be taken to try to send forces to protect the embassy in Benghazi. We know that someone in the White House or the State Department dreamed up the youtube video story as a cover designed to trick the American people into ignoring what actually happened in Libya. We know that the IRS targeted groups and individuals on the basis of their politcal or religious beliefs and then persecuted those targets. We also know that the White House staff and the leadership of the Treasury Department knew about this illegal misconduct long before the story broke. It seems likely that they told Obama as well, but we are not supposed to believe that. This is a scandal, not just incompetence. Shrum is correct that there is incompetence as part of the package, but there is a whole lot more.
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