Tea Partiers harassed by IRS?

[derspiess]

These scandals must have Raz's pucker factor way up

None of them qualify as scandals.

  So while Raz is doing his panicky googling to try & make himself feel better, you just sit there & deny. 

[CountDeMoney]

I'd have to think Gibbs would be handling things a little better.

Unfortunately for them, Gibbs went pro.

[CountDeMoney]

  So while Raz is doing his panicky googling to try & make himself feel better, you just sit there & deny.

No, I sit and wait.

The Benghazi thing is McCain/Graham/Paul masturbatory bullshit, the AP thing is kosher so far albeit heavy-handed, and the IRS thing is due diligence until proven otherwise.
Public Relations image concerns, yeah.  Scandals?  No.  We know what scandals look like, dercolonelnorth.

[Razgovory]

These scandals must have Raz's pucker factor way up

You'd like to think so, wouldn't you?  As much as you like to think about my asshole, I'm not worried about fictional scandals.

[Razgovory]

  So while Raz is doing his panicky googling to try & make himself feel better, you just sit there & deny.

No, I sit and wait.

The Benghazi thing is McCain/Graham/Paul masturbatory bullshit, the AP thing is kosher so far albeit heavy-handed, and the IRS thing is due diligence until proven otherwise.
Public Relations image concerns, yeah.  Scandals?  No.  We know what scandals look like, dercolonelnorth.

You know for the Benghazi thing being the worst scandal that has ever rocked the United States, I haven't seen what sort of actual crime was committed.  Teapot dome, Watergate, Iran Contra they all had a criminal aspect to them.  I've yet to see our conservative friends float out exactly what law was violated.

[Razgovory]

These scandals must have Raz's pucker factor way up

None of them qualify as scandals.

  So while Raz is doing his panicky googling to try & make himself feel better, you just sit there & deny.

I was curious where you got this narcissism thing.  After all, you said yourself, you're just the messenger.

[derspiess]

Pretty much all politicians are narcissists to some degree. Obama just happens to have a heavier dose of it.  Sorry it hurts you so much to hear that.

[derspiess]

No, I sit and wait.

Like an old man at the bus stop  

[Sheilbh]

Yea this IRS shit may turn out to be a big shit boomerang.

Agreed.

Benghazi isn't. If you can't explain the scandal in a sentence it's not a scandal. Stop

None of them qualify as scandals.

I think the IRS is. Don't care about AP. Benghazi is the world's first deconstructionist political scandal.

[Admiral Yi]

Benghazi isn't. If you can't explain the scandal in a sentence it's not a scandal. Stop

Check out today's FT.  Surprisingly harsh.  (From memory)

"It is now clear that in order to gain electoral advantage, the Obama White House downplayed the connection to terrorism in the days following the attack."

[CountDeMoney]

"It is now clear that in order to gain electoral advantage, the Obama White House downplayed the connection to terrorism in the days following the attack."

Just because they want it to be doesn't make it so.

[derspiess]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/sasha-obama-suspicious-after-doing-a-little-diggin,32436/

[Sheilbh]

Relevant section:

The same applies to the Obama administration's response to the Benghazi terrorist attack, which Senator John McCain has labelled a "cover-up". Again, the allegations are overwrought. Republicans are desperate to land serious blows on the president when their fortunes are low. Yet there is no evidence to suggest US forces could have prevented the attack. It is clear that for electoral reasons, Mr Obama's White House played down talk of terrorism for several days after the attack. This inquiry, too, could snowball unless the administration fully co-operates.

This is the scandal? For all the talk of consulates that should've been shut down or security warnings that were ignored, the real scandal is that the White House 'played down talk of terrorism for several days'?

I thought this was like the lefty-mentals saying Bush knew about 9/11 or ignored the warnings. At least that would have justified the outrage.

Edit: Incidentally I'd compare this with the PP's response after the Madrid bombing - that was a scandal. This? Not so much.

[derspiess]

Lies are still lies.

[Sheilbh]

Lies are still lies.

Maybe. But playing something down isn't necessarily lying. At worst it seems like they were 'economical with the truth'.