On CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward suggested President Barack Obama take the same tack he took back in 2009 when he withdrew the nomination of former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle as the Health and Human Services secretary. Eventually the nomination was withdrawn and Obama had to admit he “screwed up” when it was revealed Daschle had failed to pay $128,000 in taxes on a limousine and driver
lent to him.
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Woodward said that when you put all of Obama’s current scandals together — IRS, Benghazi and the probe of journalists — and combine it with the public’s distrust in general, the need for Obama to act becomes evident.
“The New York Times this morning was quoting people from the White House saying they would really like [Attorney General Eric Holder] to resign,” Woodward said. “But then, on the other side of it they say, this is all politics. And you have to decide in this case. But it’s all very troubling and you lump all these things — the IRS, Benghazi, and this together — and what you’ve got is a feeling that no one’s coming clean, that we aren’t getting straight talk. And this goes to President Obama.
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