It’s the Obama Five-Step. (Everyone dance!)
Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal, among others, has identified the administration’s predictable five-step response to a scandal:
Step One: Say “We had no idea.”
Step Two: Express great outrage.
Step Three: Fire some low-level employee.
Step Four: Announce a review, a study, or an investigation; deny any further comment or action until the end of the investigation. This step can stretch on for weeks, months, or years, and let the outraged public forget about it.
Step Five: This is old news, the Republicans are playing politics with it, “Dude, this was like, two years ago.”
