Are the times a'changin'?

          Its gotta suck to be a Democrat right now.  Let me be more specific.  Its gotta suck to be one of the suckers who fell for “Hope and Change.”
          Barack H. Obama was presented to us (largely by a fawning press) some six years ago as a Demigod…a man capable of ending racism, cancer, global warming, and canker sores. Many took the bait and have yet to let go, despite an avalanche of evidence to the contrary.
          The news in the past two weeks has been less-than-flattering for our Commander-In-Chief.  Between the Benghazi testimony, the IRS revelations, and new information about the Justice Department seizing phone records from the Associated Press…well, let’s just say Jay Carney has been putting in some overtime studying Advanced Spin Doctoring.
          The Benghazi lies may be the most egregious of these three kerfuffles, but it’ll be hard to gauge the President’s culpability.  Its obvious to anyone paying attention that he knew very quickly that this was a targeted terrorist attack, and not a spontaneous reaction to an unseen video.  That he would trumpet that line of thinking for nine days after the fact tells me all I need to know about where his concerns lie.  Does it amount to an “impeachable offense?”  Probably not.
          The IRS scandal is a different animal, though.  People don’t need to be educated about the IRS.  Their potential for abuse is well-known, and they’re about as popular as rug burn.  Every day we’re finding more and more evidence that this was NOT limited to a couple of low-level operatives in Cincinnati.  The ghost is Richard Nixon is smiling.
          Is this the future of Obamacare?  IRS agents and low level functionaries making decisions of life and death for conservatives?   This is not fear-mongering, folks. 
          This is the typical Obama crisis management tactic: deny it happened, promise to vigorously investigate it, blame it on low level rogue employees, and accuse conservatives of “playing politics.”  This is what happens when you elect a campaigner instead of a leader.
          I've always thought it would take a cataclysmic event to open people’s eyes…to expose the fraud that is the President...to end his Svengali-like effect on his followers. I had feared it would be a tragedy, but perhaps the prospect of his using the IRS as his henchmen will be enough to turn the tide.  One can only "hope."