Sullivan on White House "Scandals"

Andrew Sullivan comments on the recent "scandals" surrounding the Obama  administration on The Daily Dish.

Here’s the one serious point: someone initiated an outrageous abuse of IRS powers. We need to find out who and how and fire those who went over the line. And this genuine scandal is tied to the non-scandal of Benghazi and the genuine debate about how far the DOJ should go in punishing leakers of classified information. Individually, only the IRS affair seems a genuine scandal to me. But drama is the stuff of pageviews. And the chattering classes can only take a no-drama president for so long.

This whole issue is being powered by a vapid, drama-addicted media and a Republican party void of legitimate, fact-based policy proposals that is all politics all the time.  The IRS targeting groups based on political orientation is a serious abuse and should be investigated fully.  However others make a valid point that the real scandal with the IRS and political action groups on both sides is granting tax-exempt status to obviously politically focused groups funded anonymously.

Despite dozens of entreaties from watchdog groups, large organizations like Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS and the Obama-backing Priorities USA were not given the kind of scrutiny that small Tea Party groups faced.