Sigh.
[QUOTE=cheesehead;341766]Ask for clarification when necessary.[/QUOTE]

Ok, another simple question: does the word "parody" mean anything to you?

Here's a straight, honest analysis:

"The White House and the IRS: A Carteresque Fiasco

[URL]http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/28/the-white-house-and-the-irs-a-carteresque-fiasco.html[/URL]

[quote]. . .

For the White House, there is no crime here, there is no scandal, no matter how feverishly, irresponsibly, or demagogically the GOP labors to concoct one. This is not a case of Nixonian indifference to the Constitution, the law, and the president's oath of office. But it does look like a reprise of Cartersque incompetence, increasingly so as we learn more about how the White House staff handled—or mishandled—a crisis they knew was coming.

. . .

For the White House, there is no crime here, there is no scandal, no matter how feverishly, irresponsibly, or demagogically the GOP labors to concoct one. This is not a case of Nixonian indifference to the Constitution, the law, and the president's oath of office. But it does look like a reprise of Cartersque incompetence, increasingly so as we learn more about how the White House staff handled—or mishandled—a crisis they knew was coming.

White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler was told about the inspector general's pending IRS report on April 24. She didn't inform the president, [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-counsel-kathy-ruemmler-from-outsider-to-protector-of-the-presidency/2013/05/26/78a6986e-c3f0-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html"]supposedly to "shield"[/URL] him. And at first, the White House claimed, she didn't tell anyone else either. That [URL="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/the-white-houses-shifting-irs-account-91638.html"]claim soon evaporated[/URL] as the administration conceded that she had "briefed" Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough and other aides. Then the next shoe: other officials in the Counsel's office had known even sooner than Ruemmler. Then another: White House and Treasury staff had conferred about how to deal with the report.

House Speaker John Boehner's press secretary gleefully tweeted: "I can't wait until tomorrow's version of events." That says it all about a plainly hapless effort to protect the president—which instead seems likely to yield a prolonged inquisition into the interstices and tick tocks of what is now routinely referred to as a "scandal," distracting the White House and enthralling the Washington press corps day after day, and conceivably for months on end. GOP overreaching, as I've argued, may hurt the party in the 2014 midterms. But despite all the invocations of legal propriety—of not interfering with an ongoing investigation—it's hard to credibly contend that the White House strategy here, if you can even label it that, has been a model of crisis management.

. . .[/quote]There's much more detail about the missteps; read the article.

Re: the thread title change

As I already indicated, the IRS-related (or non-DOJ if you prefer) posts in this thread ought to be moved to a separate thread.

[QUOTE=cheesehead;341774]Here's a straight, honest analysis:[/QUOTE]
Presumably "honest" in the sense of "I happen to agree with it"? And "missteps" is classic ambiguous weasel-wording, as in "missteps in loan securitization and risk management by giant financial institutions helped precipitate the 2008 financial crisis."

[QUOTE=xilman;341773]Ok, another simple question: does the word "parody" mean anything to you?[/QUOTE]

That's the property which was shown in the late 1950s (in fact as early as 1928, it later proved) to shockingly be non-conserved in some weak interactions, right?

Or did you mean the more important kind, as in "Herkuhlees feahhs no amount uff exzessive Internal Revenooh Seahviss skruhtinee!"

[QUOTE=ewmayer;341786]Or did you mean the more important kind, as in "Herkuhlees feahhs no amount uff exzessive Internal Revenooh Seahviss skruhtinee!"[/QUOTE]

Bitte nehmen sie nicht die pissen. Wir sind angeblich wichtige arbeit hier.

[QUOTE=chalsall;341788]Bitte nehmen sie nicht die pissen. Wir sind angeblich wichtige arbeit hier.[/QUOTE]

"How deah yoo ssreaten de sohn uff Zooss, foolish moahtal?"

[QUOTE=ewmayer;341791]"How deah yoo ssreaten de sohn uff Zooss, foolish moahtal?"[/QUOTE]

Wahrheit. Oder dumm dummheit...

Sind wir noch Spaß?

[QUOTE=cheesehead;341777]Re: the thread title change

As I already indicated, the IRS-related (or non-DOJ if you prefer) posts in this thread ought to be moved to a separate thread.[/QUOTE]
Does anyone else feel the same way? I prefer to ascertain that there is a general wish for this (and that the new thread will be of interest in its own right) before moving any posts myself.

Obviously if any supermod agrees with cheesehead on this and wants to go ahead and move the posts himself, that will be great.

The head snake has generously offered to provide Cheesehead with his very own personal subforum in which he can expound his binary "The forces of unmitigated good versus the minions of Satan" political thesis and wrestle with his OCD demons, since the latter are apparently of sufficient gravity that even some of our most-tolerant super mods (not me, obviously - but I have not resorted to the ban hammer in order to to avoid feeding a persecution complex in the user in question) have felt the need to say "enough!"

My personal inclination is to let the current thread stand as a testament to why this was felt to be necessary. (There is no lack of such in the forum's fossil record ... this is merely the most recent example).

[QUOTE=Brian-E;341802]Does anyone else feel the same way? I prefer to ascertain that there is a general wish for this (and that the new thread will be of interest in its own right) before moving any posts myself.

Obviously if any supermod agrees with cheesehead on this and wants to go ahead and move the posts himself, that will be great.[/QUOTE]

I'd love to see this thread split properly.

[QUOTE=CRGreathouse;341811]I'd love to see this thread split properly.[/QUOTE]

Kirk: "Scotty, I need warp speed in three minutes or we're all dead!"