Why did she take the Fifth?

The American people have a right to know both how deep and how high the corruption of our government runs. The White House has an interest in minimizing the scandal, and surely that is Obama’s objective if he is trying to throw Lerner under the bus. Let’s reserve judgment on her and make sure not to let off the hook the man whose re-election the IRS’s abuse of power helped to advance.

I don’t want her scapegoated. As Michael Ledeen suggests, she (and the others whom the administration is trying to sacrifice and scapegoat) should be immunized, so we can get to the truth. And if part of that truth leads to the president, let’s just hope for the sake of the country that the vice president is implicated as well.

Tomorrow. At high noon.

It will be interesting to see how the media responds this time. Will the Tea Partiers still be racists, or rebels with a cause?

Call me crazy, but this sounds like good news. Given the vast improbability of them doing anything good, nothing seems to be preferable to me.

Thoughts from Roger L. Simon:

The Benghazi scandal is more disturbing than just lying about a terror attack to get reelected. And that’s pretty disturbing, considering the lies were made directly to the families of the victims. (cf. Hillary Clinton telling Charles Woods, one of the dead SEALS’ father, they were going to get the guy who made that video and revenge his son’s death.)

The Benghazi scandal, in all probability, would not have happened if the administration and/or the State Department took the War on Terror seriously or even, dare I say it, put the words terrorism and Islamic together in a sentence. But that would break a thousand narratives in the mind of Barack Obama, from his childhood with Frank Marshall Davis until now and back.

So now he is riding the whirlwind. The question is, will he carry us (and Western Civ) with him?

The biggest difference between Watergate and Obama’s crimes against the Constitution is that, unlike Republicans in 1974, there are probably no Democrats with similar integrity in today’s Senate. The House shouldn’t impeach unless and until Democrats start to call for it (and if this happens, it will be because they finally realize what a disaster a continuation of his rule will be for the “progressive” agenda). They wanted him, they got him, and he’s their problem now.

The IRS harassment formally began the day after the president met with the head of the IRS union:

In short: the very day after the president of the quite publicly anti-Tea Party labor union — the union for IRS employees — met with President Obama, the manager of the IRS “Determinations Unit Program agreed” to open a “Sensitive Case report on the Tea party cases.”

There’s a lot more to this. I suspect that last week just scratched the surface.

She maxes out on the Pinocchios. She probably can’t count them, though. By her own admission, she’s not that great at math.

He was apparently being tracked and spied on by the Justice Department, and has been accused of crimes for simply being a reporter. But I guess it’s all right — after all, it’s not like he works for a “legitimate news operation.” As they said over at Twitchy, when you’ve lost Glenn Greenwald…

[Update a couple minutes later]

Heh.

Spoiler Alert: @presssec knows nothing about DoJ spying on @jamesrosenfnc. @barackobama only just learned of it today, while surfing the Web

— Tim Wells (@RightWingNerd) May 20, 2013

[Update mid morning]

Even though it’s that “illegitimate news organization,” Fox News, other “journalists” are taking notice:

Justice accuses @jamesrosenfnc, a v good reporter, of being “an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator” for reporting?? washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-p…

— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) May 20, 2013

Serious idea. Instead of calling it Obama’s war on whistleblowers, let’s just call it what it is: Obama’s war on journalism.

— Eli Lake (@EliLake) May 20, 2013

Let’s hope that it’s the end of the slobbering love affair, and they finally start to notice the war the administration has been making on the rest of us.

[Update a few minutes later]

OK, one more:

These abuses of the First Amendment wouldn’t be happening if we had a constitutional law professor as president.

— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) May 20, 2013

[Update a couple minutes later]

Aaaaannnd, it wasn’t just James Rosen. Megyn Kelly is hot (an evergreen statement). But now, she’s also steamed.

Apparently the War on Fox News never ended. It just went guerrilla.