What is a Phony Scandal?

Since the President started his new “Phony Scandal” line of speechifying last week I have been thinking hard about the scandals that have been the hallmark of his Presidency and just what makes them Phony.  At first I wondered which scandals he was talking about. Today, White House Spokesman and resident tool, Jay Carney, identified the two that he thought the most important – Benghazi and the IRS.

So after having the two pointed out I finally figured it out – so let’s take a look!

Benghazi – What do we know as a fact? We know that four Americans died at the hands of a terrorist led attack on our consulate and base of operations in Benghazi. We know that at the outset of this attack that the diplomats, military leaders, and the administration knew it was an organized terrorist attack. So where’s the Phony part of this?

It’s that the administration and the officials appointed by the President (Sec. of State, Sec. of Defense, CIA, NSA, etc.) came up with a phony set of reasons for the attack based on the phony notion that the Phony Attack originated due to the reaction of the mob to an internet video.  

We also know that these phony talking points flew directly in the face of the Libyan President when he immediately said it was terrorism. That led to the Libyan President restricting the FBI’s access in country and allowed the press to go over the consulate weeks before the FBI and also led to leaders in places like Tunisia to restrict FBI access to the suspects they had in custody.

In the end I’m afraid the President might have something right. I mean even though we lost four dedicated Americans, not to mention the President’s direct representative to Libya, he was right in labeling this a “Phony Scandal!”

The IRS – What do we know about this scandal? We know that throughout history the IRS has, at times, been used for political purposes and the delays over the last few years in granting tax-exempt status to Conservative groups has been another in a long line of Political targeting by an administration. We know this happened and that it was more than just a few rouge field agents in the Cleveland office.

So where is the Phony Scandal here? I guess that goes to the President saying he would get to the bottom of this and then allowing the claims that it was only a few agents in Cleveland to be permeated throughout the press in an attempt to minimize the conspiracy throughout the IRS and his administration.

Then to have one of the prime players take the 5^th after she had already made a statement was ridiculous. But then you have liberal congressmen attack the IG who showed no partisanship as he also identified liberal groups with the same issue; albeit conservative petitions were blocked at a more than 20 to 1 ratio.

Those are merely the only two “phony scandals” they want to discuss. I wonder about the rest. There are others but I think it’s a good starting point to discuss these alone.

But move along folks, the scandal clearly falls on the shoulders of those doing the investigating and the accusing, not those doing the cover up. I mean we have more important things to look forward to. Like ObamaCare coming online in 2014….what’s that….oh he moved it…..coming online in 2015.

Things like a new jobs stimulus plan to tackle shovel ready jobs like bridge building and such….wait….didn’t we spend like a trillion dollars on shovel-ready stimulus stuff already…..MOVE ALONG!

Or things like job stimulus….lower education cost….Quantitative Easing (aka – money printing)….Keystone pipeline obstruction (what the hell, let the Chinese have it)….Solyndra (wait, that is sooooo 2012)!

Man….the list just keeps on coming!!!

I need a Tylenol!

Bill