PJTV Trifecta - IRS - AP - Fox and Benghazi Scandals Prove the Extreme Corruption of the Obama Administration

Trifecta told you so. The AP, Fox News, IRS, Fast & Furious and Benghazi scandals prove that the Obama Administration has brought Chicago style politics to the nation's capital. If the culpable parties in the Obama Administration escape prosecution, will the intimidation of President Obama's enemies continue unabated? Find out.

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Barack Obama Scandals - AP - IRS - Benghazi

Benghazi, IRS and AP scandals reveal Obama's culture of corruption. News that the IRS targeted conservative groups for intense scrutiny is just one in a series of revelations pointing to a culture of expediency and intolerance in the Obama White House that corrupts this administration.

Consider the September slayings of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other U.S. diplomats in Benghazi. If the attack were revealed to be undertaken by terrorists, it posed a grave embarrassment to the president's anti-terrorism strategy—eight weeks before the election.

On September 12, the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs wrote in an email, "The group that conducted the attacks, Ansar al-Sharia, is affiliated with Islamic terrorists."
If your opponents are evil, anything goes.

Yet, just days later on the Sunday talk shows, UN Ambassador Susan Rice characterized the incident as the result of spontaneous street demonstrations inspired by an anti-Muhammad YouTube video.

Obama Care, having passed through the Senate on a slight-of-hand, has been contentious from the start, and the Congress has not appropriated as much funds as Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would like to implement the law.

To do the work of HHS, she has sought large contributions from private health care companies to liberal non-profit groups. With health care so heavily regulated, it is hard to characterize these donations as voluntary.

No doubt, favors rendered will be returned, and it smacks of Chicago-style cronyism and corruption.

Now we learn the Justice Department misused subpoena powers to engage in sweeping fishing expeditions through Associated Press and personal phone records—clearly an effort to stifle investigative reporting that the American Civil Liberties Union quickly branded "an unacceptable abuse of power."

In 2010 the IRS began targeting conservative political groups seeking non-profit status for intense scrutiny and harassment. Former IRS Commissioner Douglas Schulman and the White House would have us believe they were unaware of this targeting, and Mr. Schulman was adamant in denials at Congressional Hearings on March 22, 2012.

However, we now learn senior IRS officials were informed of inappropriate conduct two months later, but the Congress was not informed.

The White House can be expected to argue that the targeting was the work of overzealous underlings at the IRS inappropriately exercising discretion—much like the Nixon campaign thugs who broke into Watergate.

This fails to come to terms with the culture of contempt, cultivated by President Obama and other Democratic leaders, toward those who disagree with their progressive ideas.

President Obama's appearance of boredom and disinterest toward Governor Romney during the first presidential debate, and Vice President Biden's disrespectful grinning at Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan, were an indication of something dangerously wrong with the Washington political culture. Many conservatives view Democrats, as not merely wrong but stupid, and many liberals view Republicans as not merely wrong but evil.

If your opponents are evil, anything goes.

Campaigns can get that way, but the conduct of the president requires a higher standard, and he should constrain his lieutenants' more visceral instincts. Instead, President Obama cultivates a culture of anything goes to defeat opponents and advance his liberal agenda.

Underlings act accordingly—any good manger will tell you subordinates exercising discretion take their cues from the conduct of their boss and the messaging of the CEO.

The folks that committed the worst offenses at the IRS were civil servants and three levels below Commissioner; however, the IRS is not a public service that attracts advocates of limited government. You have to be a believer in government—lots of it—to make a career as a tax collector and to target political groups seeking to reduce taxes and spending, and criticizing how the country is being run.

The president's contempt for political opponents and dissent, and expediency in delivering results, has corrupted the most basic functions of government, and emboldened those with personal agendas to threaten our liberties.

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Kevin McCullough - A Bitter-Clinger's Non-Remorse

Last week the executive branch of our nation's government seemed recklessly ignorant of nearly everything related to their job. For a group of highly educated, highly accomplished, highly perched folks who seem to regularly look down on regular Americans they seemed extraordinarily ignorant of things they should at least have basic knowledge of.


The President claimed he had no idea of the findings of the IRS' Inspector General's report citing systemic agency wrong doing until he "saw it on the news (like the rest of the American people...)" The Attorney General said, "I don't know" so many times before congressional committees last week that private citizens began doing montages of the collected admission of ignorance for their YouTube channels. Then on Friday--trying the President's tactic--the outgoing IRS Commissioner reverted back to being unable to know anything until he had seen it "in the press."

While campaigning in 2008 & 2012 this administration asserted things all the time. When they made assertions they seemed nearly offended if someone questioned them. For after all they are a bunch of highly educated, highly accomplished, highly perched folks who seemed to think they had the right to look down on regular Americans.

But that's largely the way it's been for much of the last few years.

When running for office this President referred to people who knew their Constitution (normally in spite of their public education, seldom because of it), and worshipped God, as "Bitter Clingers."

After winning office he had his Secretary of Homeland Security classify people who lawfully owned firearms, happened to go to church, happened to respect the lives of unborn children, happen to have previously served in the nation's military, happen to strongly support the nuclear family, happen to pay their taxes, happen to walk dogs, or happen to wake up on Tuesdays and make it to their place of employment, labeled "potential extremists."

Meanwhile he removed "Islamic terrorism" from the White House lexicon, and called acts of terrorism on American soil "workplace violence."

The scandals bleeding profusely from the executive branch this week have been both acknowledged and denied by that branch of government. Apologized for and defended by the President's team. Condemned and excused by executive branch appointees.

And while this duplicitous approach seems to have now been noticed for the very first time by much of the White House press corp, in reality, we-the-people, have been putting up with this behavior since the first year of the Obama administration.

The difference now: the press is finally reporting on that their two-faced nature. So smart they should never be questioned in their assertions, but ignorant beyond degree when wrong doing takes places in their departments, offices, and White House.

John Stewart, hardly a conservative apologist by any stretch, made one of the strongest points of this last week when he observed that the last "arrow in the quiver" for the administration had been their believability and trust. The President mocked and disputed the idea that any American should ever mistrust their government--for instance--on the issue of guns being confiscated from regular citizens. Stewart followed that clip with a CBS News clip showing evening anchor Scott Pelley announcing the IRS' admission to systematically and systemically targeting what in essence amounted to groups of people that were expressly opponents of Obama policies.

But the real low-water mark this week came when journalists across the nation realized that while they had basically reported to the American people for the last six years that the President was a man of trust--they themselves discovered their phone lines, conversations, numbers dialed, tips shared, and sources outed--all in the hands of the administration.

At least the journalists of America were smart enough to figure out that in previous administrations when investigations were done to find someone in the administration who was leaking information to the press--it normally wasn't the journalists who were spied on, and treated with suspicion.

Then came the justification memes in the news cycles. The fact that David Axelrod and Steven Miller both ended up arguing that the American government is in essence "so big" that no one can fully know what was going on "below" them only served to reinforce what millions of Americans of every political stripe already believed.

Either through malfeasance or through ignorant negligence a big centralized government will crush the freedoms, rights, and protections of the "free" individual.

The distinct problem for the administration at this point is that so many facts are being revealed, so many wrongs have been committed, and so many of them point directly to a motive that seems to address a President's ambition to be re-elected, that this President will more or less find himself on defense whether each and every act involved him or not.

The very same way the left punished President Bush for the actions of those involved in Abu Graib, even though he had nothing to do with the acts committed. Obama's scandals are in the same buildings, committed by people that meet with him or his cabinet every day, and who knew his mind, and followed his wishes.

The fact that the President, the Attorney General, and the outgoing IRS Commissioner, came out looking like tweedle dee, and tweedle dumb and dumber--while openly admitting to nothing, but saying they had perfectly good motives for all of it, points to one very big problem for them.
>ul>The administration has crafted an environment where hubris in wrong doing has become their altered reality.
As the whistleblowers line up, there will not be enough cover for everyone, and low level resignations will not cut it.

I've believed it since his days in the Illinois Senate, President Obama is a more strident purist in his leftist agenda for America than Bill Clinton ever was. But Clinton was the more clever operative. The Obama team's consistent chorus of, "Uh... I don't know... I only saw what was on the tee-vee," has already lost its shine.

We are about to see one of the ugliest chapters in elective politics, and the administration has only itself to thank for it.

So observes this bitter-clinger...

Kevin McCullough

Kevin McCullough is the nationally syndicated host of "The Kevin McCullough Show" weekdays (7-9am EST) & "Baldwin/McCullough Radio" Saturdays (9-11pm EST) on 289 stations & Sirius/XM . His newest best-selling hardcover from Thomas Nelson Publishers, "No He Can't: How Barack Obama is Dismantling Hope and Change" is in stores now.

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Barack Obama Scandals - Jedediah Bila on the A-Team - Talks IRS and Benghazi Scandals

Barack Obama is unusually adept at 'Finger Pointing' and 'Blame Shifting'.

No American President in History, has been able to cause a crisis and convince his Cheerleaders that it was someone else's fault - NOT Barack Obama's.

When the current IRS scandal and AP scandal and Benghazi scandal are examined, one can only reflect on the words of Benjamin Franklin:

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
Benjamin Franklin

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