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  • Democrat Baucus warns: More to come out on IRS scandal

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    Senior Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, who recently slapped Obamacare as a "train wreck," believes that the IRS scandal is just beginning and that "a lot more" damaging information will be revealed, likely at congressional hearings. "I have a hunch that a lot more is going to come out, frankly,"...

  • Morning Examiner: Accountability, Obama style

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    “The government generally has to conduct itself in a way that is true to the public trust,” President Obama said from the East Room of the White House Wednesday. “That’s especially true for the IRS. “So, here’s what we’re going to do,” Obama continued. “First, we’re going...

  • Jay Carney: I dismiss the idea that these are scandals

    Charlie Spiering

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has come under heavy fire this week as journalists grilled him about the three scandals hitting President Obama’s administration at once. On CNN Thursday night, however, Carney explained to Piers Morgan that he has actually enjoyed his job this week....

  • Jon Stewart ridicules media for stupid Hillary 2016 speculation

    Charlie Spiering

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    Jon Stewart mocked the media Thursday night on “The Daily Show” for having “the attention span of a concussed goldfish,” suggesting that their distracted news coverage were Obama’s only hope for beating the scandals weighing down his second term. Stewart played several clips of cable...

  • Obama takes different tacks in defusing IRS, AP controversies

    Brian Hughes

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    President Obama on Thursday ratcheted up efforts to put behind him a trio of scandals bogging down his administration, appointing a new head for the beleaguered Internal Revenue Service while not apologizing for his Justice Department's secret monitoring of reporters' phones. Obama condemned...

  • GOP slams IRS pick to run Obamacare enforcement office

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    House and Senate Republican leaders are gagging on the administration's pick to run the IRS Obamacare enforcement office because she headed the unit that improperly probed into Tea Party groups, a scandal that has cut short the careers of two top officials--so far. "Stunning, just stunning,"...

  • Byron York: What is the real number of illegal border crossings?

    Byron York

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    Security along the U.S. border with Mexico is perhaps the key factor in the debate over comprehensive immigration reform. Those who believe the border is mostly secure already are more inclined to support the plan of the bipartisan Gang of Eight in the Senate -- legalization first, followed by...

  • Tea Party leaders vent anger at IRS for targeting them

    Susan Ferrechio

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    Tea Party leaders from around the country gathered in Washington Thursday to vent outrage at the Internal Revenue Service for targeting them and other conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status and threatened to sue the agency for damages. "They lost membership and donations, they...

  • Subpoena of AP records revives media shield bill

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The controversy over the government's secret subpoena of Associated Press telephone records has revived legislation that protect journalists from having to reveal their sources to federal investigators — and the White House is endorsing the idea. The proposal wouldn't...

  • Badgered: Obama acts, but Republicans unsatisfied

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid controversies hammering the White House, named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred Internal Revenue Service Thursday and pressed Congress to approve new security money to prevent another Benghazi-style terrorist...