National Journal writes, “The tea party is back. Just months after President Obama's reelection deflated conservative activists, a slew of rapidly unfolding scandals involving government malfeasance are giving the movement new life … inject[ing] momentum it hasn't seen since its heyday rallying against Obama’s health care law.”
“President Obama and his insular team are violating almost every principle of crisis management. Shoot straight. Ditch the spin. Don't feed the fire. Restore trust. While the West Wing is run by smart and dedicated public servants, their crisis-communications instincts are horrible. They dissemble. They make things worse. And they...
“As three separate scandals—the IRS targeting the tea party, the Justice Department’s phone-records grab from the AP, and Benghazi—erupt simultaneously, congressional Republicans are hoping to fold them into a single narrative of an unaccountable and overreaching White House that cannot be trusted,” National Journal reports. “But congressional Democrats—knowing the fate...
National Journal writes, “Midterm elections are exercises in base turnout. That fact helped flip chambers for Democrats in 2006 and Republicans in 2010. And the scandals that will consume the White House and Congress for several weeks seem tailor-made to help the GOP base. FIRED UP AND READY TO GO...
“… Make no mistake, after a week of revelations over Benghazi, the IRS and DoJ, Pres. Obama's administration stands at a precipice. … Consider the more immediate impact on Obama's agenda, wrought specifically by the IRS: What GOP senator will be willing to switch their vote to give the Feds...
They sure were. Those famous unnamed mistakes, made by unidentified parties, have cost at least one person his job – and maybe more. This isn’t a commentary on the behavior of the IRS staff or its policies, or of the administration. The book isn’t closed on that yet. But, just...
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