I was going to write about the IRS scandal today. A least I thought it was a scandal until I heard an IRS guy testify before Congress on Friday that there was no political targeting. Just foolish mistakes, people trying to be more efficient. No political targeting? That guy actually had the nerve to say that before Congress. But that’s not what I am going to dwell on. Yesterday on Face The Nation, Bob Schieffer pretty much said what should have been said far earlier.  When Obama senior advisor ...

As expected, the counter stories are coming out on all the scandals. The IRS scandal is merely some low level Cincinnati people, who apparently don’t belong to the same Government as the President. The AP scandal isn’t really a scandal because nobody taped anything, all they did was tap incoming and outgoing phone calls. No problem there. Just the press, anyway. And as for Benghazi, the President said, “There’s no there, there” referring of course to the Gertrude Stein line about Oakland. Funn...

A liberal friend of mine told me last night he was disturbed by the Benghazi coverup but not as much by the IRS fiasco. He certainly believed it was bad, and the "explanation" it was low-level people didn't wash with him (funny how the guys who always profess to be for the "little guy" are the first to throw them under the bus). So when I asked him why it didn't bother him that much, he said it was because all Administrations do it- targeting the enemy comes with winning the election. True and c...