So, how will the Republicans play it.  House Speaker John Boehner is reportedly telling his side to cool it with talk of impeachment and comparisons to Watergate.  The GOP wants a long period of hearings on Benghazi and the IRS scandals and let the facts make the news, rather than…

Maddow gets it right.  Her analysis of the IRS release of unauthorized documents to ProPublica is spot on.  She is shining a light on IRS incompetence without, however, taking up the larger charge of governmental suppression of First Amendment rights.  For progressives, this is all about agency bungling.

It’s unsurprising that progressives and allies of the President are trying to minimize the damage of the IRS scandal.  Assurances that the scandal started and remains with low-level bureaucrats – “frontline people” – bathed in faux indignation are meant to seal up and dismiss the scandal, removing it from public…

SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FL): “So in the span of four days, [there were] three major revelations about the use of government power to intimidate those who are doing things that the government doesn’t like. These are the tactics of the third world. These are the tactics of places that don’t…

Oh, what webs we weave. The Obama Administration, known for its political aptitude in campaigns and elections, is also becoming known for its political obsessions and paranoia.  Failing to sidestep the second term curse, the administration has fallen headlong into a series of scandals that threaten to derail the president’s…

The interesting thing about defeat is the manner in which it changes a party.  Losses in the 2008 and 2012 elections may have forever changed the way the GOP does  business.  Add to that sequence a huge congressional win in 2010, courtesy of the grassroots Tea Party, and the morphing…