It appears the nearly impenetrable
walls that have surrounded the Obama Administration have started to
crack and crumble.
The IRS scandal – targeting
conservative groups seeking tax exempt status for 'special' scrutiny
– has put the White House on the defensive. Unlike the previous
four years, the media are not cutting the president any slack. Many
of the MSM are asking questions of the type we haven't heard since
the Nixon administration: “What did the president know and when did
he know it?”
While in the past the president made
jokes about having the IRS audit his political adversaries, it
appears someone in the upper echelons of the IRS took him at his word
and started targeting numerous conservative groups and individuals
who had the audacity to question the level of government spending and
taxation.
Where will all of this lead? No one
really knows, but if I had to guess I'd say it will lead to an even
weaker presidency as congressional Democrats distance themselves from
the White House in an effort to not be dragged down.
And then there are the questions about
Benghazi.
From what's been revealed so far
there's more than enough blame to go around for that tragedy. As
Harry S Truman stated more than once during his time in office, “The
buck stops here”, meaning the Oval Office. I doubt there's any way
the Obama administration is going to be able to sugar coat that royal
screw up. As e-mails released under the Freedom of Information Act
show, there was a concerted effort to try to downplay the attack on
our embassy, trying to spin it as a 'spontaneous' reprisal to an
obscure YouTube video when in fact it was a full out attack by an Al
Qaeda splinter group. No amount of PR or spin is going to be able to
change that or the fact that the State Department abandoned our
ambassador in Libya, leaving him to die at the hands of our enemies.
It's going to be an interesting time in
Washington as the full breadth of these and other scandals come to
light. Here it is we were thinking that Obama was another Jimmy
Carter when it turns out he was also channeling Richard Nixon at his
worst.