Not Enough Secret Service Hours For Tours Of White House For Common Folks; Plenty Of Secret Service Hours For Celebrity Entertainment Events After Hours; IRS Scandal; The "S" In IRS? Scandal

White House tours canceled because 2% sequester cut would result in furloughing Secret Service if tours were "business as usual."

However, there in no shortage of Secret Service personnel to handle Michelle's monthly celebrity entertainment events and and countless vacations.

The hypocrisy.

I assume a president would executive experience in the private sector would have directed his chief of staff to find some way to keep the White House tours. Didn't someone say that even during the depths of the Civil War, the "people's house" was open to the public? I could be wrong. Whatever.

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The IRS commissioner knew the scandal had been going for a full year.



I blame the media as much as anyone.

The media is "lazy" and in "love" with the president. They take his speeches and Art Carney's press releases, and simple re-report them. I have never seen a lazier White House press.

Hero worship.

Montana's senator Max Baucus weighs in. The Washington Examiner reports:

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," Baucus, whose pending retirement seems to have freed him up to speak bluntly, told Bloomberg Government's "Capitol Gains" TV show.

"It's broader than the current focus. And I think it's important that we have the hearings, and I think that will encourage other information to come out that has not yet come out. I suspect that we will learn more in the next several days, maybe the next couple three weeks which adds more context to all of this," added Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

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