Posted on 05/13/2013 8:39:01 PM PDT by smoothsailing
May 13, 2013
Joe Battenfield
President Obama’s second-term campaign slogan was “Forward,” but instead we’ve got cover-ups, congressional investigations and the government persecution of political opponents and reporters.
That sounds like “backward” to me. All the way to, say, 1972.
Who would have guessed that just a few months into his second term, President Obama would be compared to Tricky Dick. And by a liberal Massachusetts Democrat — U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano.
Republicans could not even have scripted this one. The agency most hated by voters, the Internal Revenue Service, admits to going on a Nixonian witch hunt against Tea Party and conservative groups during the re-election campaign.
This is a story even the most partisan Massachusetts liberal cannot defend. It’s so bad that even Ed Markey is calling for heads to roll.
Now we learn that the Justice Department has secretly obtained the phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors in what appears to be an investigation of an AP story that disclosed details of a CIA operation that stopped a terrorist attack.
Going after the Tea Party is one thing, but the media? What an outrage. Who knows, the press may get so mad they won’t laugh at Obama’s jokes during the next White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
This does not bode well for Obama’s second-term agenda. He already had lost a vote over gun control, and the Benghazi hearings didn’t go so well, either.
The focus for the next few months will be on the investigation and likely cover-up of the IRS effort to get dirt on Obama’s political opponents. The initial explanation — that it was the handiwork of just a few rogue IRS workers — sounds about as plausible as blaming the Benghazi attacks on an anti-Muslim video.
Voters should demand to know who was responsible for the IRS witch hunt. If anyone in the White House or Obama campaign was aware of it, then the Richard Nixon and Watergate comparisons will be eerily accurate. It was Nixon, after all, who invented the “enemies list,” and it looks as if someone in the Obama administration’s IRS came up with one.
The disclosures might even trigger a resurgence for the Tea Party movement, which suffered some setbacks in the last election. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), one of the Tea Party candidates who won, could get a boost all the way to the GOP presidential nomination.
So enjoy the next few months, President Obama. It’s not time yet to get Marine One revved up on the White House lawn, but if you start talking to portraits of dead presidents, then it’s time to get worried.
Nixon-esque? With Chris Matthews playing the role of Woodward and Keith Olberman playing the role of Bernstein? Yup,that’ll work.
Void the bowels of Washington, D.C.
It’s almost worth having him win re-election just to watch him go down in the most public way. He simply can’t get through all this if the press turns on him. His arrogance has caught up with him. I love it.
Never have so many dogs wagged at the same time to try and take the spotlight off something absolutely horrible.
I wonder how many additional bright, new shiny objects will be unveiled this week? Next week?
Remember the circus/vaudeville act where the guy spins more and more plates on top of thin poles? Here we go. How many plates are there?
Knee Deep?
It’s about a foot and a half further North.
Exactly. Watergate was a bungled burglary followed by an inept coverup. No one died. John Dean sold his soul, so he might as well be dead, but that’s his own doing, no one made him.
The leftist media loves Barry so he's going nowhere.
Any pretense libs had as being anti-dictatorial has been totally shattered by this story. I’ve been reading liberal blogs about this and ALL OF THEM support what the IRS did and say they did nothing wrong. DU’ers are saying the IRS SHOULD investigate and punish (not just groups seeking tax-exempt status)but ANYONE (GOP/conservative) who disagrees with obama about anything as an enemy of the state.
Let the liberal media lead the charge, but if we impeach him he will become a political martyr.
Compared to Obama, Nixon looks like a choir boy.
“Loosing”.
Unbelievable...
Never have so many dogs wagged at the same time to try and take the spotlight off something absolutely horrible.
Yeah, yeah, yeah,,,we all already know that the IRS targeting and punishing people for their political views is ok.
Forgive me, I see you made the correction.
One of my major Pet Peeves...
[[Obama truly believes that reality can be created just by him saying so.]]
The sick thing is, You’re right- He truly is delusional and beleives the world revolves aroudn him and that there isn’t anythign he can’t buy his way out of or bribe his way out of or blackmail his way out of-
He gets truly shocked when the press question him even semi seriously- You can see it it his reactiosn and angry outbursts and contorted twisted facial expressions- He truly beleives that because he is black that the press will not truly investigate anythign- and he certainyl knows that hwen it gets real ‘touhg’ for him all he has to do is throw soemone under the bus, and the mainstream media will eat that up and declare hte issue resolved and hte masses will bleeive it because the MSM said it was resolved-
And sadly he’s right- That’s all he has to do thanks to a press that doesn’t give a damn abotu Americans, truth, morality, justice-
Give him a break! He broke a NAIL!!!!
Believe it.
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