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Related: About this forumVanden Heuvel: Republicans using ‘weapons of mass distraction’ against Obama
By David Edwards
Sunday, May 19, 2013 15:12 EDT
The Nation editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel on Sunday said that Republicans were succeeding at using weapons of mass distraction to obstruct President Barack Obamas second term agenda.
During an ABC News panel discussion about the a number of scandals that Republicans are using to attack the Obama administration, Washington Post columnist George Will asserted that IRS scrutiny of tea party groups was like Watergate because its the use of the federal machinery to punish enemies of the administration.
Watergate? Seriously, George? Vanden Heuvel replied. I mean, Watergate was a scandal unique in its depths of criminality. You had a president at the heart of the White House directing the subversion of the FBI and other institutions, including the IRS
And the key scandal which you will disagree with is that we had after Citizens United a flood of money coming in, and you had groups which were clearly political and partisan trying to use this 501(c)4 [tax-exempt] categorization to escape political scrutiny.
Vanden Heuvel went on to point out that the Republican Party was trying to substitute the so-called scandal at the IRS, attacks in Benghazi and the Justice Departments seizure of Associate Press phone records for a real political agenda.
full article
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/19/vanden-heuvel-republicans-using-weapons-of-mass-distraction-against-obama/
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)Well done!
Cha
(297,718 posts)BlueDemKev
(3,003 posts)Weapons of "mass destruction", that is?