"What should they have known", and the pervasive fake outrage.

You gotta be kidding me.  On this morning's Meet the Press, the truth was being twisted so badly, it looked like a circus act of clowns.  All three conservative operatives essentially said that President Obama was responsible for knowing the unknowable.

Representative David Camp (R-MI) on whether President Obama would have been criticized if he had fired people at the IRS before their audit had been completed: "Well there's one thing to mettle in the affairs, but there's another thing to know about it, and the question is, not only about what people knew, but what should they have known."

Peggy Noonan :  "This IRS thing is something I've never seen in my lifetime."  "Is he President or not?  I mean that ultimately, these are executive agencies."

Bob Woodward: "[The President] is constitutionally responsible for the whole executive branch, to be told about things that are going on that are bad."

It really looks to me, that Republicans had passed around a talking points memo to expand the accusations that President Obama is responsible for knowing things that he hadn't known about.

First, this is hypocritical since, to this day, they refuse to hold Ronald Reagan responsible for the Iran-Contra affair, all because he said that he couldn't remember what he knew or did.  Never mind that several government employees with a clear link to people inside of the executive branch violated laws of Congress' own making.  If they were playing fair, then Ronald Reagan should have been impeached for not knowing, or specifically, for not remembering.

And of course, let's not forget that the IRS commissioner in charge at the time, was a Republican (George Bush) appointee.  None of these conservatives on MTP had the wherewithal to consider the possibility that a political appointee might have ulterior motives counter to the President from an opposing party?

Not that I think Douglas Shulman was politically motivated in any way, but these three people -- Camp, Woodward and Noonan -- cannot assert a cover up, without considering that the person involved with the cover up was from THEIR SIDE of the aisle.

And I just have to say, whether coming from Paul Dee at the NCAA's COI, or Rep. David Camp: The suggestion that people have a responsibility to know something that they had no control over, is utterly moronic.  To further suggest that the people at the top should have been control freaks, looking over the shoulder of every government employee, is both untenable and silly.

The outrage looks more like a crazy brand of out of control tomfoolery, where no truth shall be left untwisted, no lies too outrageous, and no analytical thinking to be done.

You know what they're really upset about?  That they can't pin anything on the President.