about president reagan during iran ca contra. president obama set the tone from the top down on an approach to government as mitch mcconnell says in today s post. it s a culture of intimidation. any group on the other side of a public policy issue is considered to be illegitimate and somehow dangerous and malignly motivated. i think that s a big part of this scandal. talk about what speaker boehner told greta. he says it s inconceivable the president didn t know about this sooner. he said i deal with my senior staff every day and it s hard to imagine it wouldn t have couple in some conversation. i think speaker boehner has a point. it s hard to imagine it didn t come up. but if it didn t come up, that s outrageous, too. that means these guys didn t consider what the irs was doing that big a deal.