Fine journalism as its best. When we already know the Benghazi controversy is a manufactured scandal by the GOP and the IRS scandal has absolutely NOTHING to do with the White House, the Christian Science Monitor argues this:
http://www.csmonitor.com/...
Will Benghazi become President Obama's Watergate? Or perhaps the IRS scandal?
In a sense, they already have.
Watergate, of course, has become political parlance for any scandal that takes down a president. But it was also something that has become much more mundane – something that has hit every two-term president since. It was a second-term scandal.
Oh boy. Here we go again. Drinking the Tea Party kool aid aren't we?
President Regan had the Iran-Contra affair. President Clinton had the Monica Lewinsky scandal. President Bush had his vice president, Dick Cheney, embroiled in investigations over the public outing of a CIA agent, Valerie Plame.
Now, it seems, Mr. Obama is genuinely a part of the club, with allegations that the White House covered up the fact that the attack on a diplomatic outpost in Libya was terrorism, and that the IRS, on his watch, discriminated against conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
The White House has said it did nothing wrong on Benghazi but simply released information as it was known. It also said Sunday that it had no knowledge of the IRS activities against tea party groups and others, and bristled at the idea of investigations swallowing Obama's second-term agenda.
Ha! They said President Regan! Makes them look like trolls, doesn't it?
Mark Sappenfield at the Christian Science Monitor seems VERY determined to find out information over a White House cover-up. How is he certain "it seems Obama is a part of the club?" Can anyone understand WTF Sappenfield is talking about?
However, there's also this insight into polls taken by Gallup on the actual affect the Benghazi and IRS scandal has had on average voters:
A Gallup poll released this weekend shows that Americans are not paying close attention to the scandals gripping Washington.
“Slim majorities of Americans are very or somewhat closely following the situations involving the Internal Revenue Service (54 percent) and the congressional hearings on the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and its aftermath (53 percent) … well below the average for news stories Gallup has tracked over the years,” writes Frank Newport, Gallup’s editor-in-chief.
Yet the poll finds that wide majorities of respondents say the IRS and Benghazi allegations are “serious enough to warrant continuing investigation” (74 percent for the IRS scandal and 69 percent for Benghazi).
In the middle is Obama himself. His approval rating ticked up slightly to 51 percent in the Gallup survey despite his tough week.
Ok. This polling and insight to me makes no sense. Slim majorities of Americans are very or somewhat closely following the situations involving the IRS and the Benghazi incidents yet wide majorities say IRS and Benghazi allegations are "serious enough to warrant continuing investigation?
Well, since Obama's approval rating has gone up, I bet it's because Americans also aren't stupid enough to succumb to want to vote for the GOP given the party's recent history with regards to gun control, the economy, Paul Ryan's Medicare and Social Security plan, and a host of other issue.
And here's also another bit of evidence that makes reporters at Christian Science Monitor look like airheads: