Obama Rocked By Triple Scandal -- Will He Survive? Will WE Survive?

[jordan179]

IntroductionAs those who have been following the news have probably noticed, the Obama Administration has recently been hit by three big scandals, coming all together.  Of these, the oldest (and most severe in terms of his primary role as Commander-in-Chief) is the Benghazi Embassy terrorist attack, and his incredibly incompetent and dishonest

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[jordan179]

I'm sure that the mainstream media will back off the scandals when it becomes obvious that the Obama Administration and their policies could suffer real damage, BUT ...

... I'm less certain than you are that

The GOP are always timid and will never try to impeach Obama for obvious reasons.

Actually, a lot of the incentives would move the GOP to push for impeachment provided that they can get enough evidence.

Also, the mainstream media is becoming increasingly less important, and the story will be hard to put back into the bag now that it's been let out. Not only are there Fox News and the Internet, but also many elements of the MSM may -- once they've gotten onto the story -- be reluctant to give up the trails. There is material here that could make a reporter's career for the rest of his life.

But yes -- we the people had better remember this in 2014. Keep in mind that the greater the Republican majority in the houses of Congress, the greater the chance that impeachment or other legislative efforts against the Obama Administration will achieve critical mass and actually accomplish something.

[madwriter]

"Also, the mainstream media is becoming increasingly less important..."

This.

They haven't figured that out yet, though. An increasing number of people of all political persuasions are both using the Internet as their primary (if not only) news source, and an increasing number are getting savvy about how to use it themselves.

[superversive]

Yes, and a lot of those people think the Huffington Post is a reliable news source - or, Gawdelpus, the Daily Kos or Democratic Underground. No help for you there.

[madwriter]

I actually missed including the main point of my own reply. A lot of conservatives, both politicians and "civilians", seemed to have trouble for a long time early on with the Internet for whatever reason, both as a source of information and a method of advocacy; even the Bush administration was almost notorious for overlooking the Web. But that's changed now.

[jordan179]

Some do, some don't. The point is that the MSM no longer has the combined ideological unity and market share to spike stories like they did 10-25 years ago.

[metaphorsbwithu]

You make valid points but here is the problem.

In a media climate where a reporter has been virtually hounded out of the room for even daring to ask Obama a question, who would want to wear the albatross around his/her neck of being the one to drive the first black president from office.

That is just a fact.

The GOP has and, until we get real conservative leadership, will remain timid - unlike liberals who play with brass knuckles - because they want to prove to everyone they aren't the caricature the Democrats and liberal media paint them to be.

if you remember, before the rise of the TEA PArty, the GOP were well underway toward surrendering to Obama and giving him everything he wanted. They had to be dragged kicking and screaming into being the loyal opposition and have been demonizing true conservatives ever since.

They are harder on their own base than they are on their opponents and, if truth be told, have no stomach for leadership and mostly want the same big government liberals want only they think they can run it better.

John Boehner is a decent guy but one who has gotten where he is by playing along and working the system. He's a deal-maker and has to be pushed - hard to do the right thing.

Hopefully there are enough leaders who understand what's at stake but, given their track record, I can see how this will play out given the nature of beltway politics.

[jordan179]

The mainstream media have to consider the competition. Fox News and the bloggers will continue to report on the scandals, and because Obama aroused the ire of the AP, the people as a whole now know that these scandals are active. The MSM can't force people to watch CNN rather than Fox, or read Time rather than National Review. They can lose market share to their more conservative competition, and they will if they try to squelch the story after it's already been widely reported.

Even the mainstream GOP would rather win than lose. They've just forgotten how.

[luagha]

Impeachment is a political process, not a legal process, and it has only so much to do with 'evidence'.

Without 66 votes in the Senate, no need to bother.

[marycatelli]

Hmmm -- looks at 2014.

Well, we can dream, can't we?

[kalance]

I forget who it was that said it, but I did hear a fun comment on the subject of impeaching Obama. It was along the lines of:

"I have two words for why we shouldn't impeach Obama: 'President Biden'."

[jordan179]

Horrors.

Biden's no more incompetent than Obama, and he lacks Obama's charisma. Biden would be likely to run in 2016, and likely to lose to any decent Republican challenger. Think "Gerald Ford."