So writes liberal columnist Ron Fournier at the National Journal. The White House is stonewalling the IRS investigation. The most benign  explanation is that Obama's team is politically expedient and arrogant, which makes them desperate to change the subject, and convinced of their institutional innocence. That's bad enough. But without a fiercely independent investigation, we shouldn't assume the explanation is benign. Fournier might have also pointed out that the White House has stonewalled every other investigation into wrongdoing by the Obama administration. Benghazi, the IRS, Fast and Furious, and now the VA scandal - all have, to one degree or another, the patina of arrogance and dismissiveness from a White House (and a lap dog Justice Department) that knows that none of these scandals will receive the wall to wall coverage they'd get if a Republican was in the White House. So they bank on a friendly press to bury the lede and parrot the line that...(Read Full Post)