Boehner: “Inconceivable” that Obama didn’t know about IRS abuse

hotair.com ^ | 5/23/2013 | Ed Morrissey

[RoosterRedux]

Earlier this morning I questioned the new spin out of the White House that Kathryn Ruemmler would have informed Barack Obama’s chief of staff Denis McDonough and a number of other senior staffers in Obama’s inner circle of the IRS abuse and corruption about to blow up in an IG report, and somehow that news never got to the President himself. House Speaker John Boehner also is having trouble swallowing that explanation. In an interview last night with Greta van Susteren, Boehner called it “inconceivable” that so many people knew about the practice and the probe, and yet Obama remained entirely ignorant of it until watching the news:

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday said he believed it was “inconceivable” that President Obama did not learn sooner about the Internal Revenue Service’s political targeting of Tea Party groups.

“It’s pretty inconceivable to me that the president wouldn’t know,” Boehner told Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren. “I’m just putting myself in his shoes. I deal with my senior staff every day. And if the White House had known about this, which now it appears they’ve known about it for about a year, it’s hard to imagine it wouldn’t have come up in some conversation.” …

Boehner said top officials may have “attempted to insulate the president from this news.”

“But with as many people that were involved in the audit, the number of people involved in the investigation, somebody — and the number of people in the White House that knew — it really is inconceivable that he wouldn’t have known about it,” he added.

[RoosterRedux]

Interesting post at Powerline. There is blood in the water and the sharks are circling.

[PATRIOT1876]

In this case, I think it means what he said

[DoughtyOne]

From the all new DoughtyOne Exhibit...

Famous Moments in U. S. History, the Obama Administration

   
Obama overseeing the IRS vs Christians                 Obama overseeing the IRS vs adoptive parents      Obama overseeing the IRS vs Conservatives


   
Obama overseeing DOJ phone taps on FoxNews   Obama overseeing DOJ bugging of Congress         Obama overseeing the taking of medical record

   
Obama oversees IRS vs Romney donors                  Obama getting 40 million citizens back to work    Obama oversees the Benghazi Incident response



What it would look like from the President's chair,
if anyone WERE on duty.



Look, I didn't know. These pictures prove beyond a doubt,
I wasn't there. I am not to blame. I am not a crook.

[Political Junkie Too]

I would have fired a whole bunch of folks starting with the CoS.

At this point, Obama can't afford to fire anyone. That would mean replacing them with outsiders, which would expose Obama's secrets to a person who might not be controllable.

-PJ

[depressed in 06]

At the time the IRS was stifling TEA Parties free speech, nobody in the zerO regime thought he would be reelected, so, to coin a phrase, what difference does it make.

[RoosterRedux]

You’re probably correct. He was actually quite resigned just before the election and seemed genuine surprised by his victory (or, should I say, successful theft of the election).