Just as Republicans and their media lackeys were getting their Obama scandal machine fired up, President Obama killed both the Benghazi and IRS “scandals” in a couple of hours.
A new study by Filipe Campante of the Harvard Kennedy School and Quoc-Anh Do of Singapore Management University found that “isolated capital cities are associated with greater levels of corruption.”
After listening to Darrell Issa go off on another conspiracy laden witch hunt, Attorney General Eric Holder finally had enough and called the California GOPer’s behavior unacceptable and shameful.
Republicans are busy trying to drum up the scandal du jour because ‘the President’s policies are contributing to the most rapid deficit reduction since World War II.’
In the lead up to the 2012 elections, Republicans were upset that the Obama administration was getting such great press on national security issues, so they demanded an investigation into the leaks.
Republicans are doing anything they can to turn the IRS into a real scandal, including Speaker John Boehner calling for the IRS to be sent to prison.
Vice President Biden delivered a teaching moment via his reply to a 7 year old who wrote to him suggesting that America would be safer if bullets were made out of chocolate.
The real scandal is not that the IRS did its job, it is that groups like Rove’s GPS Crossroads and Koch brother’s Americans for Prosperity want tax exempt status for their partisan political fronts.
What Price means by “the governed” is “angry white people” like himself who have sold their souls to the ravenous corporations seeking to replace the federal government
