i can tell you that for sure. the v.a. thing is messy, but it warrants further investigation. it s not a white house scandal. i think we have to separate what s a scandal and what s not. it still requires the president to respond. it s kind of it goes back to you know, when kids say, the dog ate my homework, it s not an acceptable excuse, and when obama says their phony scandals, their irs is being used to target tea party groups. the va had people on the list, looking like they re receiving care, when in fact they were on a death list and many of them died, you have the irs, you come out and claim they can t find the hard drive, and to say that they re phony scandals, i think actually hurts the president even more, instead of saying, look, we had a couple bad issues in washington, my job is to fix it, i m going to take ownership of that, i know people aren t happy, i hear how unhappy they are, this is my job and i m
obama. this season the like 2008 when no one stood next to george w. bush, i think it will be a mixed bag. ben is right about something, this irs scandal doesn t look good, it doesn t smell good, and it makes people feel less and less trusting of the government, all branches of government. the congress has a low approval rating, the white house has a low approval rating. in light of that, things are bad, and the democrats have to respond to this, if not, they re going to be in some trouble. you have president obama mentioning yesterday when you called these phony scandals back in washington. mark, which ones do you think he was referring to? well, i think he would say all of them. you know, but i think where he s right is, i think benghazi is something that we have tried desperately to turn into this who done it, when we know it s an awful tragedy where mistakes were made, but it s not scandal. the irs thing, particularly this hard drive situation looks bad, is it a scandal? perhap
critics a golden opportunity to score some political points back home? sure, no doubt about it, you re going to see a midterm about it. there s not a lot of democrats jumping out there and looking to have the president come in and get on stage with him and put their arm around him, they know he s a liability. and so when you do feel and people feel the country s not heading in the right direction, they can t trust the administration, theyen cat trust the irs, it s very hard to turn that around after six years when you ve been in charge, that s why you see the vulnerability by many democrats right now, they re not out there talking about healthcare.gov. now a lot of democrats are in a tough spot right now. mark? i think ben s over stating the case a little. there are many democrats that will stand next to president
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and i would say this, i still think it goes back to, when you have one of these issues, you have a va scandal, you have to show leadership and deal with it, whether it be immigration right now and the issues we re having with young people coming across the border. the irs scandal and the fact that they re claiming there s all these lost hard drives randomly of all these people whose e-mails we need to access. the irs should never be run in a way that is for political gain for anyone. how is that the president s responsibility. he didn t erase anyone s hard drive. he didn t delay reporting this information to the government. this is an irs issue. there s no evidence all right, just this is the issue i think is concerning so many democrats right now, you can t always say.