<!– Text Size Print Reprints –> EARLIER ON THE FIX: The worst week of Obama’s presidency? Close, but no. The IRS scandal: ‘horrible customer service’ or political malfeasance? The impossibly complex world of campaign finance — in 1 chart Of Watergate and lesser scandals GOP’s biggest obstacle on Benghazi/IRS/AP: Americans’ attention spans Hillary and the [...]
<!– Text Size Print Reprints –> Did the Internal Revenue Service “target” conservative groups for extra scrutiny? Or was it more a case of “horrible customer service”? Depends on who you ask. Ousted IRS chief Steven T. Miller testifies. (J. Scott Applewhite/Ap) Friday’s House Ways and Means Committee hearing into the scandal that erupted into [...]
<!– Text Size Print Reprints –> For the sixth time in his presidency, Barack Obama “won” our “Worst Week in Washington” award this week. President Obama. EPA photo. “For a president who wanted to spend the week, and the weeks to come, talking immigration and budget, the events of the past seven days virtually ensure [...]
<!– Text Size Print Reprints –> It doesn’t take a political genius to grasp that President Obama has just weathered one of the worst weeks of his time in office. But, sometimes a picture tells the story better than all the words we’ve written on it this week. Below is a chart produced by TargetPoint, [...]
The Internal Revenue Service is under fire for inappropriately targeting conservative groups that sought tax-exempt status. As I wrote earlier this week, the revelation has the potential to motivate conservative turnout in the 2014 elections, perhaps costing Democrats as they seek to gain seats in the House and retain control of the Senate. Some conservatives, [...]
With each passing hour, it becomes more and more clear that the truth was concealed from the American public prior to the election about two major Obama administration scandals. Benghazi was very much in the news prior to the election. The concealment went to the culpability of the Obama administration in failing to heed warnings [...]
<!– Text Size Print Reprints –> I was 12 years old during Sam Ervin’s Watergate hearings, and watched them over the course of a long, hot summer, a time when I seemed to register the startling fact that my parents weren’t infallible and grownups did not necessarily know more about the world than I did. [...]
<!– Text Size Print Reprints –> One of the lessons the general public (or at least some of them) have learned from the Internal Revenue Service scandal is that the world of campaign finance — who can raise and spend what, where they can get the money and who they need to tell about it [...]
Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” this morning, NBC News’ Lisa Myers reported that the IRS chose not to reveal that it had audited groups with “Tea Party” and “patriot” in their names until after the 2012 presidential election (video below). Acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller “has known for at least a year that this was [...]
<!– Text Size Print Reprints –> The Fix is a huge fan of ESPN’s “30 for 30″ documentary series — a Bill Simmons brainchild! The series mines obscure (and not that obscure) sports moments and sports figures from the past 30 years and gives them the documentary treatment. (If you don’t watch them, you should.) [...]
