And Barack Obama’s hometown paper doesn’t exactly sound very pleased about the situation, either:
We can only speculate on which tools will unlock the grimy secrets of this egregious misuse of government authority. An ongoing self-examination by the IRS is laughably untrustworthy. The U.S. Department of Justice also is on the case.
But as we wrote May 23, many Americans won’t be much interested in what one arm of the Obama administration concludes about the conduct of other arms — the IRS, the Treasury and possibly the White House. There are times when only a special prosecutor has the independence and credibility to resolve such a politically fraught matter.
Needless to say, the administration has the same problem with special prosecutors and independent investigations and that sort of thing that every other Presidential administration has had; to wit, such activities have the pernicious (to them, and their party’s partisans) effect of causing new and exciting headaches for the party that holds the Oval Office. Alas, the Executive Branch* should have thought of that before it started going after conservative nonprofit groups.
Moe Lane
*Note the precise proper nouns used. Barack Obama would have to have been very stupid indeed to have had any direct link to any of that…
I used to think that but I have seen to many Chicago Pols make very very stupid mistakes. My money is on the order coming from Valerie Jarret.
I think we’ve pretty well established that the current Commander In Chief is not the brightest bulb on the tree.