Inevitable dog days of a Presidential Administration
We’re at that point in a Presidential Administration where we see that mushrooming of scandals. Â With minor quibbles, the body of this article is about right if not the headline — “Two Scandals Deflected;Â One Persists” — scandals are not based in reality per se and partisan wrangling will have a way of persisting in all three cases, but the facts of the matter are that in a Real World only one of these things should amount to things…
For a better headline for the same points made — try Jim Fallows right about here.
… and it’s the one that probably won’t. Â What we get in the land of Internet commenters escapes to a surreal non-reality just as the “matters that are but trifles” — observe:
The AP has been on the wrong side of history, sucking up to, and carrying water for, the communist oppressors in the White House. See how they repaid you? Lie down with dogs and wake up with fleas.
I think Benghazzi hasn’t really jumped out of its partisan blustering of people who’d hate Obama no matter what. Â But The IRS — Tea Party story deserves a bit of a thwacking right about now. Â Considering this whole lot of new tea party organizations, roaming that shady gray area of threading needles in terms of what constitutes partisan politics and doesn’t — “educating the public”. Â It is a case in a subjective world where if one is not bending forward to look into them, one would be bending backward to avoid looking into them. Â Nonetheless, it’ll feed some persecution complex and what we’re stuck with is a whole lot of high horse pleadings of “Imagine a Republican White House looking for words like ‘Choice'” —
The most thing is if we were to take this scandal to the worst degree in the most feverish imaginations of the Right wing opposition to Obama — the amusing retort of sheer cynicism is “Proud White House Tradition stretching back to Roosevelt”…
The great thing from a sheer observer perspective, take away any partisan leanings, and I always like it when these tropes come along. Â Every Presidents needs to be compared to Nixon. Â And what I’m always looking for is the “Looking in the Mirror and seeing Nixon” cartoon.
Similar, of course, to…
Well, a Bush looking in the mirror and seeing Nixon image I can’t find right now.
Interesting to note, many a pre-Nixon White House journal shows that Presidents walking about the White House portraits ruminating over them at “low points”. Â My guess is after Nixon made it iconic, trascribed in Woodward and Bernstein’s “Final Days” — Presidents don’t do that anymore. Â (Innocuous in and of itself, but given new layers of meaning.)