The coverage of the recent burst of Obamunist scandals has been brisk enough that I feel no need to recap it here. It's even seeped into the Main Stream Media, which are beginning to display an inchoate sense that something about The Won -- their hero! -- and his regime is not...quite...right. At any rate, any sensible American stopped relying 100% on the MSM for his news feed long ago, so I feel confident that the Gentle Readers of Liberty's Torch are already well informed about the specifics.
For me, the question of greatest interest is strategic: Will Obama and his lieutenants continue in their current isolate-and-insulate strategy, to preserve the positions and reputations of the high at the price of the low, or will it eventually take John Dean's advice and "come clean?"
Dean's suggestion is a good one, viewed outside of all contexts. The absolute best way a high official can protect himself from the odium associated with shady doings is to "get out in front" of the investigations, the disclosures, and the distribution of punishments. But that assumes his own fanny isn't in any of the various slings being slung. If so, the deny/deny/deny strategy of the Watergate period and the isolate-and-insulate technique currently employed by Obama and his inner circle are the preferred alternatives.
Unfortunately for the Obamunists, those two techniques are incompatible. Indeed, choosing either one locks out all other alternatives, for a simple reason: They imply innocence.
Once you've claimed innocence, you cannot confess and expect to win public approbation. Indeed, it strains credulity to hope for mercy. "The cover-up is worse than the crime" has achieved homiletic status for a good reason.
However, if the Obama regime should succeed in:
- Bringing the MSM "back into the fold," and:
- Buying off or intimidating any low- or mid-level defectors from its strategy;
...it might still manage to avoid the worst possible outcomes: total regime delegitimization and / or impeachment of various high officials -- possibly including the president -- by Congress.
It's possible that the various participants in all this skullduggery are casting about for a way to "come clean," as John Dean has advised them. And for some mid-level functionaries, there are still possibilities, though they would be required to join the parade of whistleblowers. These are the persons whom the higher-ups must buy off or threaten into silence: a difficult chore when loss of career and prison time are among the possibilities.
All that having been said, Obama himself will probably survive in office, though even under the best outcome his ability to command his co-partisans on Capitol Hill will be greatly reduced. However, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Kathleen Sebelius, and a large number of other State Department, Justice Department, HHS Department, and IRS officials would be well advised to get their resumes up to date.
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I find your analysis hopelessly optimistic on this on. It will completely disappear into the background of Angelina's bravery of having her own Boobs chopped off.
I said back in 2008 that the Obama Presidency would be one of the most corrupt in American history and it is beginning to prove itself as such. It was no great feat in making that prediction because that is who the left has always been. Ruled by their passions they engender an arrogance that makes them believe that the laws are for the little people. They are also narcissistic to the point that they also believe themselves to be smarter than anyone else, therefore who can catch them? They prance around D.C. with an élan that would shame Louis XVI and somehow I can hear Michelle Obama saying, "let them eat cake."
As the Obama administration unravels you will see one high level official after another go down in flames. We will witness the mainstream media lie with wild abandon and spin like a washing machine on turbo. But it will be too little and far too late. We have seen the left implode like this before in the 80's with the House Bank scandal, the Restaurant scandal, and post office scandal. As Reagan once quipped, "I told them to handle the nation's budget as they would their own checking accounts. What I didn't know was that they did."
The left operates on pure emotion and that will only get you so far. Sooner or later your infrastructure will implode because there is nothing, but emotion to support it. It is why the Soviets imploded as well. Sooner or later emotion will fade, and then you are left with nothing.
As time moves forward expect more scandals to emerge. Expect Hillary to testify before the congress again, and expect the house to move forward with impeachment hearings against Obama as the full scope of what he and his minions have done becomes known. He may just be the first black President and the first President removed from office by the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors.
The correct spelling is "Teh Won." /smirk
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