Republicans are spinning the current three scandals: Benghazi, IRS profiling on conservatives and phone tapping on journalists trying to score points; I have no doubts about that; but it also appears clear to me that the "cool guy' we hired to run this joint has proved to be just one more traditional politician dangerously close to the Nixonian era.
Would a republican president have done the same given the opportunity, of course. The problem is not one party or the other, but the impunity these bureaucrats enjoy and the latitude they have to let issues drag on until it's pointless to take any action. We don't need to impeach this president or the next one; we need to make sure they are so straight jacketed by our watchful eye that succumbing to the temptation of abusing their power becomes a non option.
The irony here is not whether this situation is unusual or not, but that it is more of the same and we chose the incumbent on the futile assumption that things would change. In my view these four, and some new storms brewing in Washington will be clumsily dodged by Mr Obama, with a little help from the main stream media, and he will end his second term uneventfully; what worries me is the balance we will make of his performance once the heated arguments give way to the cold reasoning of historians and academics. Americans may then come to the conclusion that departing from their mainly conservative ways was not wise. On the other hand the extreme left, feeling betrayed, may resort to more radical strategies in the future. We're in for a bumpy ride.
Would a republican president have done the same given the opportunity, of course. The problem is not one party or the other, but the impunity these bureaucrats enjoy and the latitude they have to let issues drag on until it's pointless to take any action. We don't need to impeach this president or the next one; we need to make sure they are so straight jacketed by our watchful eye that succumbing to the temptation of abusing their power becomes a non option.
The irony here is not whether this situation is unusual or not, but that it is more of the same and we chose the incumbent on the futile assumption that things would change. In my view these four, and some new storms brewing in Washington will be clumsily dodged by Mr Obama, with a little help from the main stream media, and he will end his second term uneventfully; what worries me is the balance we will make of his performance once the heated arguments give way to the cold reasoning of historians and academics. Americans may then come to the conclusion that departing from their mainly conservative ways was not wise. On the other hand the extreme left, feeling betrayed, may resort to more radical strategies in the future. We're in for a bumpy ride.
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