Bill Press: "...when the going gets tough, the tough get going...."

[babylonsister]

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As they say, when the going gets tough, the tough get going. And President Obama certainly got tough and got going yesterday. We witnessed a remarkable display of damage control on three fronts, three scandals.

On Benghazi, which is hardly a scandal anymore, the White House released 100 pages of emails from everybody involved in responding to the terrorist attacks on our consulate: the CIA, the FBI, the State Department, the White House, the Pentagon, right down the line.

Having demanded release of the emails for months, that leaves Republicans trying to figure out what to demand next.

On the Department of Justice’s raid on the Associated Press phone records, the White House announced it had convinced Senator Chuck Schumer to re-introduce his Media Shield Legislation, shot down by Republicans in 2009. And President Obama immediately endorsed the new bill.

And on the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups, President Obama read the Inspector General’s report, met with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew – and then fired the Acting Head of the IRS and put new guidelines in place.

All in all, a very effective response. Now maybe we can get back to work on things that really matter: like gun safety.

That’s my parting shot for today.
-Bill Press

[EV_Ares]

1. And a good & true parting shot it was. I only wish however that the repubs would let this

administration do the work of the people but that I fear will never happen. It is going to take the will of the people to stop them from just obstructing & continue doing harm to this country for their obsessive grasp to have full & complete power again.