Things that are scandals, and things that are not

So this past week has seen scandals involving both the IRS and the State Department (on the response to the Benghazi attack).  You might have heard about these, but you need to remember that these are not scandals.

We know that these are not scandals, because nobody has resigned.  This is a hard and fast axiom that we can use to see what Washington thinks is a scandal.  Remember, Citizen, Washington thinks differently than you do.  Washington thinks better than you do.

So what is a scandal, in the last week or two?  Well, sumd00d at the Heritage Foundation published a paper that says that the Illegal Immigration amnesty currently mooted by a bi-partisan "Gang Of Eight" will cost the Republic north of $6 Trillion.

And so he had to go.  There's your scandal, folks.  We know it's a scandal because someone was forced out of their job and into an Obamaeconomy breadline.

I dunno - maybe his old job was one of the ones that Americans just won't do anymore these days.

Anyone who thinks that the Republican Party will somehow save the Republic from the current Obama administration are invited to explain this scandal, and these non-scandals.

SENATE, n. A body of elderly gentlemen charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary