Things I have learned from liberals in the past week.
1. The Obama white house cannot be blamed for Benghazi because George Bush invaded Iraq and Clinton got blown.
2. The IRS has every right to target the Tea Party because liberals hate the Tea Party.
3. Trying to find answers to the questions raised by these scandals is racist.
4. If you have no idea what anybody is doing under your command then you are probably the greatest
president ever!
5. Republicans only recite right wing talking points (according to left wing talking points).
6. Facts don't matter as much as do the motives of republicans when they bring up facts.
7. Every administration does it!
8. Bush is responsible for the Benghazi, IRS and Associated Press scandals.... somehow.
9. Fox News lies and stuff.
10. If the government was bigger then we would have less scandals!
Quite a list there. You need to do a bit of fact-checking though.
The IRS has been targeting opposite political groups since the 1950s. Tricky Dick Nixon's shit list was the longest, everyone from hippies to the mafia to the UAW, and anyone that spoke out against the war - but that last one's a carryover from LBJ. That so many Tea Party groups sprung up in such a short time would certainly raise a few eyebrows at the IRS. Does that mean what they did is okay? No. It's wrong. But it's not an Obama scandal if TEN other Administrations had the same exact problem.
Hillary begged for money for defending the Benghazi ambassadors. The republicans denied funding. Then they tried to blame her for not having enough defense. Then they said she watched it all unfold on tv while Obama was sleeping. Hillary had phone contact only. Obama was awake. Think about time zones. Then there was a disinfo story about e-mails. Those e-mails were delivered to the House Committee twice - the first time being several months ago. The "e-mail" that ABC reported earlier this week was a complete fabrication, as other news sources have shown by publishing the real e-mail - the one that says nothing about Susan Rice or Obama creating talking points. It was the CIA that wanted the talking points.
And the AP phone-tapping, yes that was certainly uncalled-for, and I have a real problem with it, but there's this thing called the Patriot Act that unfotunately allows for this sort of thing. Did you know that the AP outed a spy? Just like Valerie Plame. There was a spy deep undercover in the mideast that intercepted the bomb and somehow the AP found out and broke the story. The spy's cover is now blown, he had to be hurridly pulled out of harm's way, and he can no longer gather intelligence. What the AP did is a threat to national security. The fed's reaction, again, was extreme, but it wasn't a random act.
Now let's look at the scandalmongers, the ones that ran on the Jobs!Jobs!Jobs! platform and haven't created a single job. They only work a few months per year and spend most of that time voting against abortion, voting against the ACA, scandalmongering, and threatening to filibuster every legitimate bill that's introduced.
You on this board that lean to the right, seriously, you've really let your standards drop.
"He did it too"! lame
Hilary could have cut into her travel budget and supplied the necessary backup, she was not willing to do that.
Who was all about using a straw man for Valerie (after she had outed herself)? Yes I disagree with the Patriot act and contacted my "representatives" to vote against it. Since that was a "Bush thing", why haven't the dems repealed it?
You are blaming "jobs" issues on the republicans? Really, who told us it was going to be his focus going on five years, now. Either is really, really incompetent, or he doesn't want the country to recover, which is it?
You Obama zombies have spent five years telling us this is the most intelligent President ever, yet, when he is questioned about what is going on in his administration, he always says "I just found out about that": either he is the biggest liar that ever held the Presidency, or he is the worst manager, ever, which is it?