I
am avoiding this scandal in Washington, when I ought to be confronting it and
writing about it. I wrote, instead, a strange blog yesterday, meaning to post
it today. It was far too intimate and personal and revealed some of the little
problems my aging has brought along. Who cares? That is what I finally asked
and then I set aside the blog, putting it instead in my daily journal. I must
write about this stink in our nation’s capitol! Why am I avoiding it?
by Charlie Leck
by Charlie Leck
“Sit! Write,” I
told myself!
There are
politicians comparing it to Watergate? Watergate!
Do you remember Watergate and the slime of it?... how it brought down the
President and labeled him a criminal forever after?
I am like the
proverbial ostrich! I do not want to face this – not the slightest possibility
that my president could be involved
in anything so awful. He is not! I am certain! He could not sink so low as
Richard Nixon did!
Yet, of course,
Republicans are running around, happily, and comparing this current dust-up to
Watergate!
I do not believe
it for a second! I realize something went terribly wrong, but I do not believe
it was orchestrated from or by the White House – though all the motive in the world
seems there for this administration to do such a thing. The constant
frustration brought on by the Tea Party types. Those inside the White House must
have asked myriad times about whether the far right might be raising funds
illegally to oppose the President’s actions. Why not loose the FBI and the IRS
on them – the dirty bastards? Yet, I cannot believe this president – this man
– could be capable of such a misuse of power. However, the Republicans will
make it seem so! They have an important mid-term election coming up in 2014.
What a body blow it would be to the Democrats if the nation suspects them of
such foul play. Just the hint of a stink – or the unlikeliest suspicion – would
be enough for the Republicans to win back both houses by a wide margin.
As I think about
it, is this not motive enough to cause scoundrels to create such images of a
president gone bad. Oh, Lord, not Obama! I cannot believe it of him. I will
not!
Who knew what and when?
Of course, President Obama must act with immediate efficiency to lay bare all that went wrong. What was happening at the IRS? We must know every detail and how such things began – who knew what and when did they know it? Remember than constant tune from the Watergate scandal?
Of course, President Obama must act with immediate efficiency to lay bare all that went wrong. What was happening at the IRS? We must know every detail and how such things began – who knew what and when did they know it? Remember than constant tune from the Watergate scandal?
There can be
nothing hidden! Everything must be open to the inspection of the American
people as well as the Congress.
I will write a number of times in the next few days about the scandal in Washington and who is behind it. Full disclosure!
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