So let me see if I got this right

[malaise]

Obama left a lot of ReTHUGs in high offices and they are fucking things up royally.

[morningfog]

1. You got it. It's been haunting him his entire presidency, catching up more now.

He still hasn't learned either.

[Skittles]

2. and he didn't hold any repukes accountable

so now they're demanding HE be held accountable

it's fucked up

[malaise]

3. Yep nice guys always come last

I'm too pissed to think right now

[Skittles]

8. nice?

uh yeah, ok

[malaise]

14. LOL

You now what I mean

[NightWatcher]

4. The IRS thing doesn't sound like a mistake to me

Those teabagger idiots applied for tax free status then used it to funnel millions to teabagger candidates or ads in the last election. That they investigated them based on key words seemed to make sense to me.

[malaise]

5. But said Tea bag candidates were running against name brand ReTHUGs

and someone was out to crush them for ReTHUGs

[NightWatcher]

10. At worst, some official got the IRS to do their job

If they were pressured or directed on whom to investigate and for what reason doesn't matter to me.

[malaise]

13. Now I see what's going on with this one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022839341

[malaise]

7. By the way I'm not against persons looking for tax free status being betted

but I'm betting the ReTHUG in charge knew this was going on.

[Anansi1171]

6. Bingo. Cheney's stay-behinds!-NT

[0rganism]

9. I was saying, back in Jan. 2009, President Obama needed to drain the swamp

now he's waste-deep in muddy water and the alligators are nipping his toes, and I'm not convinced he sees the problem.

He could have cleaned house and had a clear path for his appointments before 2011, but noooooo. Now we can't fill major cabinet posts without the GOP throwing a hissy fit or getting a possible senate seat out of it.

[malaise]

11. And you were right

Obama loves this consensus oriented bullshit and they hate his fucking guts

[madokie]

15. He still hasn't gotten all he's appointed approved yet

No way could he have drained the swamp as you say. this was a gop plan all along and they knew what they were doing when they did it. Many of us here knew what they were doing then too.
Obama's kinda fucked if he does or doesn't, either way many here are going to be calling for his head. It sucks
but then again many of the folks who were here back then are no longer posting. Sometimes I think I know why that is.

[malaise]

16. I'm not calling for his head

I want him to hold a press conference and discuss the refusal of the ReTHUGs to hold hearings for the EPA appointee - it is fugging sabotage but M$Greedia isn't covering that

[madokie]

34. I understand that and so do I

Even if he did the m$m wouldn't cover it though. I wouldn't even know about this if it wasn't for the likes of websites like DU

[cheapdate]

23. That's my understanding as well.

I remember hearing a good explanation of the many reasons why a new, incoming president simply cannot "wipe the slate clean" at all of the many federal agencies. Changing or reversing existing rules at many agencies is subject to statutory requirements. Personnel changes are often subject to government service employment rules.

Bush and his cronies packed the agencies for eight long, miserable years with true believers and ideologues. They were very good at it and approached it with deliberation and forethought. Unlike today's Republican Party, the Democrats were encumbered by civility and good form and allowed it to happen.

[Dawson Leery]

12. Cheney's "stay-behinds"

[malaise]

17. At home and abroad

Time for a clean-up

[Half-Century Man]

18. Cheney's last fart

This guy (or select subordinates) might be Cheney's sleeper political suicide bomber.

[iandhr]

19. No

actually the Senate refused to confirm his nominees so many Republicans were left in their jobs.

[freshwest]

22. +1. And others have only acting directors. Or none.

[on point]

20. Ding ding ding!! They were on their heels but rather than pinning theirs ears back

By removing their veneer of legitimacy, he let them rest while playing 10 dimensional chess where he has clearly been out played. End result? Obama hamstrung, little progress, Bush tax cuts still in play.

[spanone]

21. riddle me this, why would a bu$h* appointee target tea party types?

i smell something foul

[Hekate]

24. Are you referring to Dick Cheney's moles?He had a lot of appointees' jobs converted to Civil Service

In which case, those employees have civil service protections, and nobody can just walk through their offices and fire them out of hand.

Are you referring to departments where the GOP is refusing to let the Obama administration fill positions? In that case, nobody can fill those vacancies, and someone has to do the jobs -- possibly people originally hired or appointed by the previous administration.

Obama is not a magician.

[xtraxritical]

25. Well explained.

[tblue]

26. "Obama is not a magician."

He's not even a mime.

[Hekate]

29. If it gives you satisfaction to believe that

be my guest.

[tblue]

37. He's a mime?

Who says?

[malaise]

32. He is not a magician but he can make way more noise about this

than we are hearing

[lonestarnot]

27. Affirmative.

[Rex]

28. I'm stilll wondering why we are stuck

with the Cheney DOJ.

[xtraxritical]

30. Senate filibusters possibly?

[malaise]

36. Not just filibusters

1,000 plus questions for the EPA appointee and they they boycotted the hearings after giving Democratis a few minutes notice

[ProSense]

31. Steve Benen put it best:

There was a commissioner, Douglas Shulman, who was appointed by the Bush/Cheney administration five years ago, and who was in charge when the agency began treating conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status unfairly. It's unlikely that a Republican deliberately targeted groups on the right for extra scrutiny.

But more to the point, Rubio's demand is problematic given the fact that Shulman has already resigned, leaving the IRS last November. It's tough for a guy to fall on his sword after he's already packed up his stuff and gone home.

President Obama hasn't even nominated his replacement, and if he had, Rubio and his colleagues likely would have filibustered his or her confirmation anyway.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/05/13/18230699-officials-who-dont-exist-cant-resign

[malaise]

33. Yep

except that I read that ReTHUGs wanted to stop Tea bag ReTHUGs running against their name brand candidates

[cali]

35. so the buck doesn't stop on his desk?