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633 scandals of the Obama Administration

Flopping Aces has been keeping track. They list 633 scandals of the Obama Administration here.

"Scandal-free" Obama sent 18 emails to Hillary's secret, illegal email system

Jim Geraghty writes in National Review about a few of the Obama administration scandals:

Fast and Furious. The IRS scandal. The $2 billion spent building Healthcare.gov. The Veterans Administration letting veterans die waiting for care. The Office of Personnel Management hacking. Lying about Bowe Berghdahl. “Companies like Solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter, more prosperous future.”

Jonathan Gruber’s declaration that Obamacare depended upon the “stupidity of American voter.” The NSA and Edward Snowden. The stimulus “was riddled with a massive labor scheme that harmed workers and cheated unsuspecting American taxpayers.” Prostitution and incompetence in the U.S. Secret Service.​ Hillary and her private e-mail server. The Department of Justice secretly reviewed the phone records of at least 20 phone lines of Associated Press reporters — their work, home, and cell-phone lines. The Department of Justice’s decision to call Fox News reporter James Rosen a criminal “co-conspirator” in leaking classified information. The Department of Justice punishing whistleblowers. Benghazi — the failure to provide Chris Stephens with the security he requested, the inability to put together a rescue operation that night, and the false explanation to the public afterwards blaming a video.

Read more here.

Ace of Spades adds,

Now, with Obama having sent 18 emails to Hillary's secret, illegal email system, thus exposing himself as having lied, yet again, when he claimed, yet again, to have learned about the system when you did, from the papers...

Ace commenter Zombie writes,

This isn't because Obama hasn't committed daily treason and innumerable outrages against common sense, legality and the nation's well-being; it's because a "scandal" is a multi-pronged concept that involves the cooperation of the media and "opposition" politicians.

In other words: No matter what outrageous malfeasances Obama commits on a daily basis, none of them rise to the level of "scandal" unless the media deems it as such and/or unless the opponents in government pursue fruitful official investigations.

Since the MSM is Obama's lap-dog, and the GOPe are toothless losers, Obama commits crimes against the nation all the time, and yet is in factual reality "scandal-free."

Lois Lerner's emails have vanished!

Roger Kimball:

So the IRS suffered a catastrophic hard disk failure and, lo and behold! two years of Lois Lerner’s emails have vanished: poof! Just like that. Imagine. Evidence of those happy days targeting conservative groups, gone. So much for the memoir. Eliana Johnson reports that Dave Camp, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is really steamed. He has even asked the Justice Department to look into it. “The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response to congressional inquiries,” he said in a statement. “There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General.”

Still laughing? Yes, that would be Eric Holder’s Justice Department. Don’t hold your breath, Mr. Camp.

Is it credible that they have no back ups of two years’ worth of emails of a senior staff person—a senior staff person who just happens to be at the center of a huge scandal? What do you think?

I have a couple of other questions. 1. How will The New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, and the rest of the extended White House Public Relations team cover this story? Will they cover it? And 2. what will it take to rouse the public from its supine attitude of hapless acquiescence to this administration’s increasingly brazen lawlessness?

Please read more here.

Politics trumped ethics

Victor Davis Hanson writes,

The mystery is not whether some administration officials were incompetent or unethical or both, but whether there are any left who are not.

Hanson ticks off some of the scandals created by unethical or incompetent Obama Administration officials. Read the whole thing here.
He notes,

In all of these cases, politics trumped ethics. Because Obama professed that he was on the side of the proverbial people, administrators assumed that they had a blank check to do or say what they wished without much media audit.