Maybe you can remember back to the early days of our enlightenment to the fact that the IRS was persecuting conservatives for their political beliefs. Many of us wondered how the IRS could get away with abusing conservative citizens and the groups they belonged to for so long. Some of us wondered how widespread this was, and if the malfeasance ran all the way to the White House. That’s when President Obama arrived at a press conference to tell us that he found out about it at the same time we did.
Personally, I was floored. I could not believe that the President of the United States could stand there and say that a practice that was widespread throughout the IRS was news to him. Things got worse as we found out more of the story, and learned that the Inspector General had been conducting an investigation into the IRS for quite some time. Yet, the President never knew? Then we learned that the practice had been rumored and talked about for a couple of years…but somehow the President never knew?
Either the President was lying – or he is the most inept man to hold the office since President Ulysses S. Grant, who also allowed incredible corruption to take place under his nose.
One time, one scandal… maybe we could forgive. Maybe we could gloss over. But it wasn’t just once, was it?
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