Pay no attention to the scandal behind the curtain…

I was not surprised to hear the President “pivot” to the economy again in the face of some declining approval ratings, but this time was a little more annoying. It’s no longer enough to point out the paper tiger economy this Administration holds up as economic recovery, but rather we must now highlight Mr. Obama’s “audacity” as he goes one step further. So let me understand this, the political opposition are simply “obstructionist”, and legitimate debate about your Administration’s handling of critical matters are “phony scandals”. This is truly a man in denial.

In what can only be described as chilling testimony recently, IRS Lawyer Carter Hull pointed the finger at one of only two high-level presidential “appointees” to the agency, IRS Chief Counsel William Wilkins, as overseeing the singling out of Conservative groups for additional IRS scrutiny. (No scandal here.) Additionally, it is now known that the NSA surveillance program, as approved by President Obama not President Bush, was far broader and less supervised than originally thought, and that state department offices charged with overseeing components of the program were described by federal oversight committees as “in chaos”. (Nothing to see about your privacy here folks.) And finally, survivors of the Benghazi attack, which left a U.S. Diplomat, one attaché, and two security detail former Navy Seals murdered, were asked to sign “non-disclosure agreements” effectively muzzling them before Congress. (“What does it matter???”)

Mr. President, it’s not so much the obvious and calculated effort to deceive, but rather your assumption we don’t see right through that “phony speech” you made yesterday…