Oh, don't worry about this, my fellow Americans; the Obama White House is "incompetent," remember? They're not lying, they're not blatantly covering up IRSgate, they're not laughing at and taunting the GOP and the Tea Party with this "Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can, but you can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man, and oh by the way, f[bleep] you" crap. No, not at all.
They're just "all thumbs":
Conservatives are outraged at the IRS' disclosure late Friday that it had lost a trove of former administrator Lois Lerner's emails on the targeting of tea party groups, with one critic likening it to the infamous gap in a tape of President Richard Nixon's conversations during the Watergate scandal.
"Liars. They're such liars. Unbelievable," charged Washington attorney Cleta Mitchell, who is representing several groups in a federal lawsuit over the targeting in their applications for tax-exempt status. "This is outrageous. They're lying.
"This is like the 18-and-a-half minutes in Rose Mary Woods' tape," Mitchell said, referring to the gap in the audio tape of a June 20, 1972, conversation believed to have been held between Nixon and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. "It's ridiculous. I just don't believe them."
Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, one of the groups that received its tax-exempt status after suing the IRS, said the revelation "doesn’t pass the smell test and smacks of obstruction of justice."
Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, which is representing 41 targeted groups in a federal lawsuit against the IRS, said "this is insanity."
"Hollywood couldn’t write a script with any more scandal and intrigue than what is unfolding in the IRS targeting scandal," he said in a report on the organization's website.
And Representative Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, suggested that the White House was being dishonest in saying that the emails were lost.
"Isn’t it convenient for the Obama administration that the IRS now says it has suddenly realized it lost Lois Lerner’s emails requested by Congress and promised by Commissioner John Koskinen?" the California Republican asked in a statement. "Do they really expect the American people to believe that, after having withheld these emails for a year, they're just now realizing the most critical time period is missing?"
Yes, they do. Why? Because they say so, that's why. Otherwise, you can expect your audit letter to show up in the mail any day now.
At least in terms of "official" public lip service. Certainly they think we will believe it, because we're subhuman protozoa and they're gods colossally bestriding Earth. And, after the last two presidential elections, you can't really blame them all that much for forming that opinion of the collective intelligence of the American voter.
Reinforced arrogance backed up by coercion, in short.
But the truth is, they also know it doesn't matter if we believe their BS or not, because they hold all the power. Barack Obama is never going to order Eric "The Red" Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to genuinely investigate IRSgate because....he doesn't have to. Who's going to make him? Congress? How's that worked out so far? The media? They're still loyally and obsequiously protecting him. The public at large? Most Americans think "IRS" stands for "Irritable Rectum Syndrome," and those that do know what's going on are precisely the ones who've already been squashed by the IRS and vilified as "racists".
The White House used the IRS against the Tea Party in 2012 and continues to do so to this very day for the same reason a lion licks his genitalia: because he can. And the same dynamic applies to this contemptuous end zone celebrating.
Still think O is stung by our "he's inept" criticisms? Looks like he's merrily embracing them to me.
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