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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI can't even keep track of all the manufactured crises these days:
Benghazi, IRS, AP...................yawn. RW thinks they are gonna "Nixon" Obama. They will fail.
You would think they had learned their lesson after trying it with Clinton. You'd be wrong.
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I can't even keep track of all the manufactured crises these days: (Original Post)
kestrel91316
May 2013
OP
I think it's much more important to track the real crises that are being made worse
Egalitarian Thug
May 2013
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Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)1. Benghazi was DOA. The IRS scandal is about to disappear.
The AP scandal will take time to sort out, but it's also an adventure in silliness -- first amendment issues, for sure, but the same issues we have seen a dozen times in the last 30 years.
liberal N proud
(60,346 posts)2. The republicans are throwing mud hoping something sticks
So far Obama has a Teflon suit and it all falls flat.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)3. I call it Poutrage.
They're just flinging feces around, trying to keep the base fired up. Low-information voters might conclude that where there's smoke, there's fire...like the John Kerry swiftboating.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)4. I think it's much more important to track the real crises that are being made worse
every day while we are all watching the Circus.