If the White House is releasing a statement at 8:30 at night you know they’re in full-blown panic mode.

Statement by the President:

I have now had the opportunity to review the Treasury Department watchdog’s report on its investigation of IRS personnel who improperly targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. And the report’s findings are intolerable and inexcusable. The federal government must conduct itself in a way that’s worthy of the public’s trust, and that’s especially true for the IRS. The IRS must apply the law in a fair and impartial way, and its employees must act with utmost integrity. This report shows that some of its employees failed that test.

I’ve directed Secretary Lew to hold those responsible for these failures accountable, and to make sure that each of the Inspector General’s recommendations are implemented quickly, so that such conduct never happens again. But regardless of how this conduct was allowed to take place, the bottom line is, it was wrong. Public service is a solemn privilege. I expect everyone who serves in the federal government to hold themselves to the highest ethical and moral standards. So do the American people. And as President, I intend to make sure our public servants live up to those standards every day.

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/05/14/break...es-intolerable/

If this ARROGANT POS thinks his statement puts this matter to bed, he is more IGNORANT than he looks !!

FRIDAY......I CAN'T WAIT !!

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If this ARROGANT POS thinks his statement puts this matter to bed, he is more IGNORANT than he looks !!

FRIDAY......I CAN'T WAIT !!

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I really expected Zero to do a network news conference on Prime Time to try and shut all this down or at the very least insulate himself from it. This statement is weak. I'll bet the WH is afraid to make any real statements on any of this for fear of incriminating themselves as more and more leaks out.

One notable aspect of the Internal Revenue Service scandal is President Obama's strange view of accountability within the executive branch. In his Monday remarks addressing the targeting of conservative groups for tax-exempt scrutiny, Mr. Obama declared that the IRS is "an independent agency."

In his press briefing after the story broke on Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney hit the same note. "The IRS is an independent enforcement agency with only two political appointees," he said.

The IRS is many things, but "independent" isn't one of them. It is formally part of the Treasury Department and is headed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, who is appointed by the President. The Commissioner is accountable to the President reporting through the Treasury Secretary.

This attempt to distance Mr. Obama from any control of the IRS is especially rich in light of the Administration's recent attempts to bend other genuinely independent agencies like the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to its will via non-recess recess appointments.

So let's look at how the U.S. legal code describes the varying standards of Presidential "accountability": The IRS Commissioner "may be removed at the will of the President." A labor board member "may be removed by the President, upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause." At the CFPB, the President "may remove the Director for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office." The IRS job is not like the other two.

The White House says Mr. Obama only learned of the IRS political abuses from news reports. Funny, that's also how they learned about the Justice Department seeking the phone records of the Associated Press. And who knows what the State Department or "the intelligence community" was up to on Benghazi. The Washington Examiner's David Freddoso joked on Twitter that "Seal Team 6 is the only govt agency that acts directly on Obama's behalf." All others are run by career officials who keep screwing up. Your "independent" government at work.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...Opinion_LEADTop

No Drama Obama lurched into reactive mode.