Castles Burning

Words
But his own words only fed the attacks. On ABC’s news program “This Week,” Mr. Pfeiffer said that he did not know whether laws had been broken at the I.R.S., but that regardless, the agency’s actions were seriously wrong.

“I can’t speak to the law here,” he said. “The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped, and it needs to be fixed so we ensure it never happens again.” (NYT, 5/19/2013)

Unfortunately, Team Obama keeps providing inadvertent and disastrous soundbites. Witness Hillary saying "what difference does it make?" in responding to a Benghazi question, Obama exhorting the press to "move on" from the death of four Americans and now Pfeiffer claiming the "law is irrelevant." And then there is Jay Carney who assures us (fourteen times and counting) that Obama believes in "an unfettered press." 


Ignorance
We know American politics are dysfunctional. But after a week of scandal obsession during which the nation’s capital and the media virtually ignored the problems most voters care about — jobs, incomes, growth, opportunity, education — it’s worth asking if there is something especially flawed about our democracy. (E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, 5/19/2013)

So according to Dionne and fellow Liberals, we should stop focusing on government corruption and start focusing on jobs. Well Republicans have been talking about jobs for the past five years...but whatever. 

What Republicans should say is - parroting Obama who said that he could do Obamacare and climate change (or was it Obamacare and gay marriage?) - that they can investigate the Obama Scandals(tm) and do immigration. 

Multi-tasking, that's it.


Folded
How does an administration move on from scandals that are still unfolding?
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The White House is looking to claim scandal victory because it was shown that House Republicans overcooked their characterizations of the administration cover up of the involvement of Islamist militants in the raid on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya. “We deceived you, but not as badly as our opponents claimed,” has got to be the slimmest solace ever offered to reporters on a scandal.
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Even the announcement of the scandal is scandalous. The IRS official who went public with the internal audit that found the agency had targeted Obama’s political enemies planted a phony question on the topic with a friendly lawyer at a roundtable discussion for tax attorneys. Don’t do that. (Chris Stirewalt, Foxnews.com, 5/20/2013)

We have seen a bit of Stirewalt lately. He is good. 

We love his point that Democrats want to "move on" from the Obama Scandals(tm) even before we know everything there is to know. 

So to review the changing Democrat narrative:

-There is no scandal/wrongdoing.
-Whatever scandal/wrongdoing there might have been is old news.
-George Bush is to blame.
-We need to focus on jobs. And education. And immigration. And climate change.