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Daniel Weiss, RealClearPolitics Poet T.S. Eliot famously wrote that "April is the cruelest month," but this May could be the scariest because of a recent cascade of alarming news about climate change. On May 9 the planet breeched the 400 parts per million threshold for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for the first time in human existence. Nearly one-third of the contiguous United States suffers from severe to exceptional drought. The Mississippi River went from near record low flows in January to floods in May.A NASA-led modeling study released on May 3 "provides new evidence that global warming...
Cohen & Balz, Washington Post Majorities of Americans believe that the Internal Revenue Service deliberately harassed conservative groups by targeting them for special scrutiny and say that the Obama administration is trying to cover up important details about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans last year. But a new Washington Post-ABC News poll also finds that allegations of impropriety related to the controversies have yet to affect President Obama’s political standing.
Lydia DePillis, The New Republic If you've tried and failed to avoid taxes over the past decade or so, blame J. Russell George. President George W. Bush nominated him as the Treasury inspector general for tax administration in 2004, just six years after President Bill Clinton created the position. Every year, his 800-person agency generates hundreds of audits, saving the Treasury billions of dollars in taxes that might otherwise go uncollected.
Joseph Nye, CNN (CNN) -- Many a modern president has lost momentum and suffered what are termed "scandals" in his second term. President Barack Obama's current problems are part of that tradition. But with the exception of Richard Nixon, scandals have not proven fatal. Indeed, Ronald Reagan's Iran-Contra scandal and Bill Clinton's impeachment over the Monica Lewinsky affair were far more serious than what we know so far about Obama's involvement in Benghazi, the Internal Revenue Service or subpoenas of records of reporters' calls. Yet Reagan and Clinton finished their...
Jim Geraghty, New York Daily News Don't let anyone fool you: Everyone in politics is tempted to believe that their noble ends could justify unethical and illegal means.Those who had hoped that President Obama would usher in a new era of higher standards in Washington must be shell-shocked by last week's revelations:-The Internal Revenue Service admitted to delaying conservative organizations' tax-exempt status while quickly approving groups that had liberal or progressive orientations. The IRS asked these groups all sorts of invasive questions, including what kind of books they read, and leaked some information...
Howard Fineman, Huffington Post WASHINGTON -- So far, voters don't seem to be abandoning President Barack Obama over controversies gripping the Beltway world. But White House aides are tempting fate with their reluctant, piecemeal and contradictory disclosures of what they knew and when they knew it, especially about a report on the Internal Revenue Service's 18-month effort to target tea party and other conservative groups for special scrutiny.The aides either have forgetten or are unable to implement the basic lesson of scandal control in Washington: Get the full story out -- all of it -- as fast as you can...
Ron Fournier, National Journal "You and others have said that no one in the White House knew about IRS actions before getting the heads up on the inspector general's report last month," George Stephanopoulos told senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer on Sunday. "Are you absolutely sure of that?""Yes,"Â Pfeiffer replied.Do you believe him?Knowing the consequences that would befall the Obama administration if the White House or Obama's reelection campaign knew in real time that the IRS was targeting conservatives, I desperately want to believe Pfeiffer....
Ben Domenech, The Transom The firestorm around the White House is only going to grow with the knowledge that the administration targeted Fox News' reporter James Rosen for doing nothing more than being a reporter. Kirsten Powers: Â "Turns out it's a fairly swift sojourn from a president pushing to "delegitimize" a news organization to threatening criminal prosecution for journalistic activity by a Fox News reporter, James Rosen, to spying on Associated Press reporters. In between, the Obama administration found time to relentlessly persecute government whistleblowers and publicly...
Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic Have nursing homes, fast-food restaurants, and other low-wage industries found a way to wriggle out of some Obamacare requirements? Maybe.Today many (and possibly most) of these employers either don’t provide insurance or provide barebones coverage that doesn’t really cover much. Obamacare is supposed to change that. When its big coverage provisions take effect in January, employers with more than 50 employees are supposed to provide real insurance—or pay a stiff penalty. But some employers and insurers may find a way to avoid facing that choice: They’d...
Ron Fournier, National Journal “You and others have said that no one in the White House knew about IRS actions before getting the heads up on the inspector general's report last month,” George Stephanopoulos told senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer on Sunday. “Are you absolutely sure of that?”“Yes,” Pfeiffer replied.Do you believe him?Knowing the consequences that would befall the Obama administration if the White House or Obama’s reelection campaign knew in real time that the IRS was targeting conservatives, I desperately want to...
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