Ruemmler: the fall gal?
The Obama administration appear to be honing in on a fall guy (girl; gal; woman). It’s Kathryn Ruemmler, White House Counsel, supposedly responsible for hampering disclosures on both Benghazi and the IRS targeting case.
A twofer.
White House Counsel, White House Counsel…. Now, where have I heard that before? Oh yeah: here.
Many years after the events, Liddy flashed on one reality: the Watergate burglary could NOT be seen while underway.
(Forrest Gump, notwithstanding)
Liddy woke up in a sweat: the only player in the know who could’ve called in the alarm was John Dean.
The building is still there. You can check it out. Nothing would appear to be awry at that hour in such a place. (They kept crazy hours, anyway; they were political activists.)
Liddy contends that John Dean intended to shut down the Plumbers — by dropping a dime on them.
Dean simply did not figure that the FBI would burn through all of the cut-outs. (He must have watched too many movies as a child.) His inner child must have taken over — and it assumed that only ‘the bad people’ would be taken away.
This speculation makes the best sense, for the record shows that no-one has stepped forward to explain the phoned in alarm. Like the dog that didn’t bark — it’s a silence most peculiar.
Neo, I don’t believe one thing that the Obama administration says, not one. They could tell me it was raining outside and I would want to get a chemical analysis of the moisture after standing in it for 5 minuets…. I would want to know that it was real rain and Obama was not all weewee’d up and peeing on me.
David Yotham:
Agreed.
Based on the Wikipedia entry on Ruemmler, I’d say she’s a pretty smart cookie, and that I’d be surprised to learn she didn’t know that, as Ed Morrissey at Hot Air puts it: “[t]he function of a chief counsel in any organization is to make sure that the top executives know about legal (and political) dangers before they blindside the bosses.”
I also note that she seems to have begun her government career as a Clinton appointee. Hmm. Could it be that this is part of the long-running Hillary-Obama chess game you alluded to last week, neo?
“A twofer.”
Yup. And in more ways than two too.
“White House Counsel….”
Ah yes, John Dean, the man who, when Mitchell said “When the going gets tough the tough get going” got going to the prosecutor’s office to make a deal for himself.
F&F, 4 dead in Benghazi, IRS terrorism, ‘journalist’ hit lists, and on and on its goes. Watergate was two 6 year olds stealing cookies from the jar compared to this wicked and sleazy trail of poison. Team Obama’s crimes are the biggest stain on the country since Wilson. To borrow a slogan from the left: no justice, no peace.
Watergate was actually a bunch of men (not under Nixon’s orders) trying to get concrete evidence that the Dimocrats were taking money from Communist Cuba.
In other words, that the domestic Left were acting as traitors in the pay of one of our nation’s mortal enemies.
But it’s still all about the break-in.
I’m not a fan of ‘gates’. The Democrats attempt to get Reagan, or the Republican’s attempt to get Bubba. I even think that the attempt to cover up policy failure in Libya while regrettable, even despicable, is politics as usual. But suddenly, like Neo, it sounds all too familiar. Using the IRS against the Tea Party seems to subvert the democratic process just as much as burglarizing the opposition. If the electorate has an ounce of sense they will keep the shackles on in 2014. If there is one thing we want in a tax department it is fairness. Seems like an exploitable issue to me.
Beverly, people should really find out whether Deepthroat, the guy that gave Ayers his terrorist immunity, observed or ordered those guys to do it and then orchestrated the whole scandal release. Nixon’s office was bugged by at least the FBI, Pentagon, CIA, and various other political factions at the time.
There sure are a lot of women involved in the Obama administration scandals: Hillary, Rice, Lerner, Napolitano (sending armed DHS guards to cover the tea party protests at IRS branches?!), etc. Scratch the surface of a woman in power and find a fascist?
I believe the word you want is “homing” with an “m”, as in “homing in on a target”. Honing, per my old dictionary, and my usage as a knife owner, is “sharpening”.
Sam L.:
Thanks, but it’s not altogether clear—actually, either word can be used.
Neo, David, when people learn to think for themselves, it makes it harder for evil to dominate humanity.
Of course, too many people are interested in changing the world… an easy way to avoid changing themselves for the better.