He still cannot come clean with the American people. He still thinks he can fend off any criticism by blaming all his troubles on the Republicans.
First off the State department has gone on record to say the lack of security in Benghazi was not a money issue. It was not for lack of funds. Stop saying it was money Mr. Obama. Come clean and maybe this will go away. In a way Obama reminds me of the ex Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick. After a while all of the dark side stuff he did in office caught up with him. I hope this is Obama's coming due that is arriving daily. We the American people are not as naive as he thinks. We tolerate his actions to a certain point but when you play us as fools, well that's when we lose our patience and turn on you. You were never as popular as you made yourself out to be. Kwame fell from grace all by himself and so will you if you don't come clean. Trouble is I don't think you know how to do that. It appears to me all your messes have always been cleaned up for you by others. This time as the leader of the free world you have to do it yourself.
Second to appoint a Senior government official to take over the IRS is no different then the situation today. It reminds me of an old Herman Hermits song "second verse same as the first". So do you take us for being fools?. We get it. Everything stays the same. maybe some of the deeper allegations of using the IRS for political gain are true after all. Maybe this "culture of Corruption " thinking permeates right from the top down.
Mr. President you have to step up come clean and do the right thing. We cannot have the IRS determining who wins and who loses elections in this country.
Third I haven't even begun to write about freedom of the press. I'll wait and see on that one.
May 17, 2013 at 1:00 am
Obama out to quell IRS, Libya troubles
“I think we’re going to be able to fix it,” the president said of IRS targeting. (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press)
Washington — President Barack Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid controversies hammering the White House, named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred Internal Revenue Service on Thursday and pressed Congress to approve new security money to prevent another Benghazi-style terrorist attack.
The efforts did little to satisfy Republicans, who see the controversies as an opportunity to derail Obama's second-term agenda. House Speaker John Boehner suggested the White House had violated the public's trust, and he promised to "stop at nothing" to hold the administration accountable.
"Nothing dissolves the bonds between the people and their government like the arrogance of power here in Washington," Boehner said. "And that's what the American people are seeing today from the Obama administration — remarkable arrogance."
The targeting of conservative political groups by the IRS and new questions about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year — along with the Justice Department's seizure of journalists' phone records — have consumed the White House for nearly a week. Of the three controversies, the president's advisers see the IRS matter as the most likely to linger. At least three congressional committees are planning investigations into the agency that touches the lives of nearly every American.
Obama, who was criticized by both opponents and allies for his measured initial response to the IRS targeting, vowed to ensure the agency acts "scrupulously and without even a hint of bias."
"I think we're going to be able to fix it," he declared during a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Fill-in IRS chief appointed
Soon afterward, Obama appointed senior budget official Danny Werfel to temporarily run the IRS, one day after Acting Commissioner Steven Miller's forced resignation. The White House is expected to nominate a permanent commissioner later this year.
On Thursday, Joseph Grant, one of Miller's top deputies, announced plans to retire June 3, according to an internal IRS memo. Grant is commissioner of the agency's tax exempt and government entities division, which includes the agents that targeted tea party groups for additional scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status.
Meanwhile, the president knocked down the prospect of appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS, saying the congressional investigations and a separate Justice Department probe should be enough to nail down who was responsible for improperly targeting tea party groups when they applied for tax-exempt status.
The news conference marked Obama's first comments on the government's widely criticized seizure of telephone records of reporters and editors of the Associated Press in an investigation of news leaks.
The president spoke of the importance of striking a balance between "secrecy and the right to know" but said he would make no apologies for trying to protect classified information that could put Americans at risk.
"I've still got 60,000-plus troops in Afghanistan, and I've still got a whole bunch of intelligence officers around the world who are in risky situations," he said. "Part of my job is to make sure that we're protecting what they do, while still accommodating for the need for information."
Focus on embassy security
The IRS and Justice Department controversies have coincided with a revival in the GOP-led investigations into the September attacks in Benghazi, which claimed the lives of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.
Obama, who angrily cast the investigations as a "sideshow" earlier this week, tried to turn the focus Thursday to Congress. He urged lawmakers to provide more money to strengthen security at U.S. diplomatic missions around the world.
The State Department is seeking about $1.4 billion for increased security; the money would come primarily from funds that haven't been spent in Iraq. It would include $553 million for 35 more Marine Security Guard units, $130 million for 155 diplomatic security agents and $376 million for security upgrades and construction at new embassies.
Since the attack, Democrats have complained that Republicans cut $300 million from the Obama administration's budget request of $2.6 billion for diplomatic and embassy security in 2012.
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130517/NATION/305170360#ixzz2TXh6b8X3
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