As Designed: Benghazi is Slipping Away in The Minds of
Americans!
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As I tend to my severely strained right deltoid muscle, which, quite frankly, is making just about everything difficult to do, not to mention the havoc it’s playing on my back. I want to share with you some thoughts by Joseph Curl that reflect what I was trying to express, oh so humorously (even if I do say so myself,) in my Friday post “Surveillance.” He summarizes: So wait: Members of the Obama administration rolled out yet another scandal that isn’t a scandal? You bet they did (c’mon, The Guardian?). And this one has been a blast for them. First, top Team Obama officials have gotten to say their favorite word, over and over: “Bush.” Second, Republicans awoke from the slumber long enough to decry — the very thing they supported under George W. Bush. Bonanza. “Seizing phone records of millions of innocent people is excessive and un-American,” said Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., author of the excessive and un-American Patriot Act in 2001. “This is a big deal, a really big deal,” the Wisconsin Republican said of the tiny story that will fade faster than Liberace’s love of a new boy toy. So, another scandal that goes nowhere. Let’s recount: There’s the IRS scandal — the agency’s targeting tea party organizations. But half the country went, “Good. %&*@ the tea party.” And it’ll end with a few heads lopped off, mostly done already. There’s the AP phone scandal — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. testified under oath that he didn’t know a thing: Done. There’s the Fox News scandal: Half the country went, “Good. #$@% Fox News.” A story with no legs. The drip-drip-drip of scandal is deliberate: Give the press something to chew on (and it’s just fat, so lots of chewing). It’s a long summer, in an off year — Year No. 5, scandal year. Remember, this is the administration that said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” So they decided, “Hey, let’s do our own scandals!” And today, we have news of more scandals. Other than his take on the IRS, I mostly agree with this assessment. I am skeptical of how high up the IRS scandal will go, but I do not believe it was met with any apathy from the public. It is his conclusion I agree with and most fear: But watching these scandals come and just as quickly go makes me wonder. Maybe the once-tight-as-a-drum administration suddenly has sprung a leak — or five. Maybe its sheer incompetence has simply caught up with it. But something smells fishy, nothing adds up. And with each emerging scandal, the most damning one — Benghazi — recedes a bit more into the past. Come September, we’ll likely look back and say, “Huh. Lotta’ smoke, no fire.” But four Americans are dead: We still don’t know why. And that’s a real scandal. That is the real scandal isn’t it. http://tbrickert.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/and-benghazi-is-slipping-away/ |
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"Congress is concerned over the NSA spying on Americans." The only Americans they're worried about are themselves. Congress is worried about the dirt the NSA can dig up on them. Bye bye, cushy job and fringe benefits!
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