In the two years between November 2014 and November 2016, there is increasingly the probability that Lerner (recall that she has already taken the Fifth Amendment, recognizing her possible criminal misconduct) and a gaggle of other high-level lieutenants of Obama will be both indicted and convicted before the 2016 presidential election. When that happens, Democrats will face the same sort of problem that Republicans faced in Nixon’s Watergate. The scandal, in both instances, involved offenses that occurred before the president’s re-election, and the scandal, in both instances, involved not simply crimes like burglary (Watergate) or abuse of power (IRS), but of bald-faced lying to Congress, to federal courts, and to the American people. It also involved not just criminal conspiracy under the law-book definition, but conspiracy to hide wrongdoing and the like to the American people. If officials in Obama’s Justice Department are involved – and this too becomes more likely all the time – then the impact on America could be overwhelming. What was Watergate really about? The three politically toxic elements were (1) lying to Congress and to America, (2) conspiracy by high-ranking government officials to hide wrongdoing, and (3) the involvement of the Nixon Department of Justice as a vital element of this criminal conspiracy. The more certain the punishment of the wicked became, the more Republicans insisted that Nixon resign. These leads to another striking parallel between this Obama scandal and Watergate: Obama, like Nixon, is an isolated personality whose only real loyalty is to Obama and no one else. He seems congenitally incapable of confessing any real sin. The more the posse closes in on him, the more likely Obama seems to get petulant, to hide at Martha’s Vineyard, and to compound past lies with more lies. Nixon resigned only after Goldwater and other key Republicans went to the White House and told Nixon that he must. Are there any Democrats – any at all, really – who can be reasonably seen with the intestinal fortitude to go to Obama and say that he must resign? Would Hillary be able to do that? Would Biden, who would take Barry’s place in the White House? Could Reid or Pelosi? More and more, it looks like the final chapter in the IRS Scandal will be played out before a disgusted America before the 2016 election. Politicians fear, most of all, issues ordinary Americans can understand easily. This is just such an issue. Moreover, if Americans rightly perceive the Obama administration to have been dishonest, dirty, and dissembling, then it will be easy to convince voters in 2016 that this corruption is the prime cause of all the other miseries which the nation faces today. The IRS scandal, currently ignored by much of the media, could be the biggest issue in 2016. Read more: americanthinker/2014/08/the_biggest_issue_in_2016.html#ixzz3BtKSqryy Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 15:55:57 +0000