PSEUDO-SCANDALS HAVE BACKFIRED

Don’t let a good scandal die. I really think we should do everything we can to keep the AP, Benghazi, and IRS scandals in the news. They prove, more than anything else does, that California Congressional Representative Darrell Issa and his supporters John McNasty and Lindsey Graham are partisan liars. They are not interested in good government. They are interested in the old Karl Rove axiom, no one with high negatives can be elected. They have as their singular objective to make Democratic politicians look bad—any democrat and every democrat.  This approach to generating hate has directed government away from good legislation to scandals that are not scandals.

My first or “gut” reaction to the scandals was why take valuable time talking about these things. Why not debate jobs, immigration, great opportunities in the Arab Spring, global warming, the contracting middle calls instead of some reporter who feels offended because the government is trying to uncover treasonous activity. However, to turn our back on this situation is to ask for more of this kind of nefarious activity on the part of the so call Government Oversight Committee. If we expose it for what it was maybe, just maybe, it will stop it. Even if we can diminish it, it will be worth it. As the discussion “matured” in each case, the pseudo-scandals have backfired and pointed directly to Republican malfeasance. In the case of Benghazi, it was Pentagon malfeasance. Lets keep these things above the fold until everyone understands what they are doing and why they are doing it. 

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