That’s Jim Geraghty’s title to this bit from the Morning Jolt. My thought? Someone needs to start a Kool Aid Drinkers anonymous program in DC.
Nothing Can Dissuade Obama’s True Believers from Their Heroic Narrative
David Axelrod, Tuesday:
“And I’m proud of the fact that basically you have had an administration in this place for six years in which there hasn’t been a major scandal. And I think that says a lot about the ethical strictures of this administration.”
No major scandal.
Apparently we hallucinated that whole Department of Veterans’ Affairs–letting-vets-die thing. Or Healthcare.gov. Or the IRS targeting conservative groups. Or the false explanation of what spurred the attack in Benghazi. Or administration adviser Jonathan Gruber cackling that Obamacare was passed because of the “stupidity of the American voter.”
Do we remember former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson? Her case was as unprofessional as it was surreal. Jackson fabricated for herself an alternate identity as a mid-level EPA employee. In communications, she used a fake e-mail address and name, and then unethically honored her own alter ego (“Richard Windsor”) as a “scholar of ethical behavior.
The spurring question to Axelrod was about the revolving door between lobbyists and government officials. In 2012, Conor McGrath identified 119 lobbyists who ended up working in the Obama administration. And the officials left government to take their cushy jobs as lobbyists:
