Obama Administration Scandal Bracketology

President Barack Obama’s administration has been one rife with scandals. Some pertain directly to the President himself and his own actions–like the recent immigration executive order that some say unconstitutionally side-stepped Congress–and some to members of his administration, like the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS and the Secret Service’s series of embarrassments.

So in the spirit of March Madness and NCAA bracketology, I crafted an Obama Administration Scandal Bracket, originally published at The Cornell Review.

Allow me to explain a few points:

•Bracketology requires that the number of “contestants” must be a number which is the number 2 raised to an integer exponent (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.) So, I had to narrow the list down to 16 since I could not reach 32. I was able to do this narrowing down by restricting my definition of scandal as explained in the following two points.

•There is a distinction, at least to me, between actual scandals and just regular policy. For example, Obamacare in itself is not a scandal. It’s just bad policy. Snubbing Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu are not scandals either, just poor policy, as is snuggling up with Iran. That’s why I threw out “contestants” like: calling for Israel’s return to ’67 borders, the “chickensh*t” allegations, Obama’s decision not to meet Netanyahu when he addressed Congress, etc.

•It’s a stretch to say government incompetence is necessarily a scandal. Sometimes it is, sometimes it’s not. So, for example, I decided the roll-out of the Obamacare exchange websites was not a scandal. I was on the fence about “If you like your doctor…” because, while certainly deceitful, there were no direct cover-ups, lives directly endangered, direct personal gain or cronyism/nepotism, laws broken, or enormous ethical lapses.

Readers who disagree with my bracketology methodology are free to argue otherwise.

Here’s mine:

I would take issue with the notion that the number of scandals must be a value equal to 2^n, with n being an integer. You could always have seeded the scandals and given byes or had play in rounds. The basketball tourney is not 64 teams any more; it’s 68. In any case, FWIW, I had the same final “winner”, and the same final matchup as you. The only difference was in my “final four”. I had the civilian drone strikes coming out of the bottom right bracket.

I’m gravely concerned that our country will suffer severe consequences because of this backstabbing caper.

I am noticing how the Lord is protecting Israel by allowing the Muslims to fight among themselves. Recently He took Muslim attention off of Israel by allowing the US to get involved in Iraq and Afghanistan. I wonder if near the very end of this dispensation Muslims will quite fighting among themselves and focus on Israel, and then comes the Lord.

Oh yes regarding our country, I don't think the USA is all that important in the end times, just the Christians who are here.

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