This is gonna come back to bite the Dems in 2014. Win win for Obama. He can finally get the Repub House and Senate to gut SS Medicaid and Medicare without enough Congressional votes to override a veto voting out Obamacare.

As long as this sticks to Hillary I say “double down” re the Republicans and Benghazi. The enemy of my enemy is my friend

Been out of town and am playing catch up

1. Is it the conventional wisdom that these scandals have not affected Obama’s approval rating adversely?
2. Why is the IRS wrong in singling out an anti tax organization’s tax exempt status. I would be MORE outraged if they didn’t a la the SEC and the Justice Dept on Too Big To Jail.

This whole fiasco should put Bradley Manning’s arrest and treatment in a much more sympathetic light. Shame on the Gay Pride people in SF. Next time they come looking for me to support them with a donation, I will boisterously decline.

I’m sick of how the “left” non-profit world sucks up to this administration. He just doubles down on the corporate sellout to the banksters and the Military/Security Industrial Complex.

Who is truly the lesser of two evils? When the Dems are hamstrung and hippie punched mercilessly while Obama outflanks Romney’s policies.

at the risk of sounding fawning, Kevin, your coverage on this has been as good as anywhere else on the rank hypocrisy of this administration. Worse than Bush

Emperor Obomber thinks there is some kind of equivalency in the “limits” of the Constitutional guarantees of Freedom of the Press. I thought he was a Constitutional scholar of some note.

Has he ever heard of the Magna Carta b/c it seems to me that he believes that his word is the whole of the law.

What can I say I’m a cynical romantic. I no longer have a shred of faith in the Democratic Party. I mostly just vote for referendums and initiatives now. I reject the narrative that the Dems are the lesser of two evils. The post 2008 betrayals were the final straw for me and my fealty to the New Democrats: socially liberal/Wall Street whores

If I can’t vote a third Party on my Diebold voting machine I leave the line blank

TarHeel: I don’t understand what you mean? This forces Dems to distance themselves from Obama on this out of political expediency. That is definitely a GOP incentive trying to expand their hold of the House and taking back the Senate in 2014

I’m naive but maybe this wounds Obama within the Dem Elites because it doesn’t involve money like Keystone. That could provide space for the Dms to reject Obama’s second term right wing pivot

I.e no more Kucinich Airplane Rides

How can Pro Obama outlets like MSNBC and The Ezra Klein/Maddow types let Obama slide on the same shit Obama is doing that they built their career bonafides on chastising Bush over?

They can’t prevaricate or they run the risk of losing all credibility

Now they don’t have to carp about Obama’s birth certificate. They have a real issue to grind Obama into the dust over

This isn’t Obamacare there is no moral upside for Dems to stand with Obama on something this heinous

Obama better throw Holder under the bus pronto or face the potential unravelling of his precious legacy

In a dictatorship why even bother? The govt is immune from the laws they impose on their proles. We are a soft, bipartisan dictatorship with the infrastructure and information gathering potential to bring heavy manners to any who might gather to demand accountability by taking to the Streets in a General Strike or a militarized re-emergence of a less apolitical version of Occupy

Read this chillingly accurate account of the state of fascism (or militaristic corporatism) we live under now

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34941.htm

Because this involves an attack on freedom of the press the corporate media will be forced to hold Obama’s feet to the fire

You know the blogosphere and web news like HuffPo will lap this up in a lather during a fallow news cycle while we all wait for Keystone. New York Times and their ilk will have to keep up or be made further redundant

The beginning of the end for O? how will The Obama Channel (MSNBC) and Daily Kooz spin their way out of this after Holder’s shameless obfuscating today? A truly embarrassing day for this administration. Jay Carney’s condescension irregardless

even Adam Green and Moo-ve.On will be forced to “tsk tsk”

Excellent call Kevin on the timing of the recusal meant to retain plausible deniability. John Ashcroft would be proud

Europe must be further horrified at the spectacle that is the putrid stench emanating from American democracy. is not Holder’s recusing himself a twisted version of “lawyering up”. From the man most responsible for upholding the law of the land?

It wasn’t the crime it was the coverup that got Nixon

. I bet Fox News doubles their ratings at the expense of the Obama Channel (Msnbc)

He needs to resign. That sociopath in the White House will not let him dangle. Holder is toast from this Nixonian display today. Huge kick in the nuts for Obama

Obots everywhere taking a page from 8 Men Out “Say it ain’t so Joe”

Are you referring to the Hillary Clinton of “Mubarak’s not a dictator. He’s our friend”?

In my mind this is a big part of it twobeers. Benghazi is a 2 for 1 meant to bog down Obama and wound Hillary for 2016.

The fact that so many Dems are mouthing platitudes of scolding over the AP scandal (that’s about as much as they can get away with in criticizing their Messiah Bomb Marley). Such tsk tsking on the “left” (for the sake of argument, let’s call the Quisling Democrats in Congress the “left”. WE all know true lefties are invisible to both parties) only encourages the R’s to heap gas on the fire. For once Superfly has feet of clay and can’t shrug this booger off his finger

My prediciton: We’ll get Keystone this Friday afternoon. A week earlier than my previous prediction of Friday afternoon of Memorial Day when DC empties out for the long weekend.

Come on Lurch, time to step forward and trip on your sword. John Kerry will take it on him to give Obama some breathing space. Move the conversation to the inevitable of Keystone

Didn’t Obama brag about how he and his buddies hotboxed in a van in Hawaii when he was a youth? Does this man have any shred of human decency at all?
Aren’t his knees sore from all the fellating he does on behalf of Big Pharma?

Sounds like my dad back in the day: Do as I saw. Not as I do.

I realize my pipe dream of Obama getting his just desserts is unrealistic, but could this imbroglio take Holder down “so he can spend more time with his family”? Or does he still have more work to do for his boss absolving Wall Street and bringing heavy manners to the rest of us?

So could Obama be impeached over this week’s worth of scandals?

1. Obersturmbahmfuhrer (sp.) Holder voiding freedom of the press
2. the IRS holding aside any Non-Profit status requests with the words Tea Party or 9/12 in their title while giving new liberal outfits a free pass (according to today’s screaming headline in the McPaper aka USA Today)
3. Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi
4. One of their “diplomatic apparatchiks” getting busted redhanded trying to recruit a spy complete with bags of cash and wigs

When I mentioned the possibility of an Impeachment in the House at my coffee break this morning, my pals looked at me like I was wearing a tin foil hat.

Call me a cynical optimist. I know it won’t mean President Biden, but just impeachment hearings would mean Xmas in July for this Progressive