Tea Party tax outrage: latest 'scandal' to beset Obama

The US President is under fire on three fronts – but it's really Hillary Clinton the Republicans want to sink

Charles Laurence

WHY IS Washington suddenly consumed with scandal fever, with the three new "-gates" out and running in a week? In a word: Hillary.

The Republicans, terrified by failure in last year's elections which made clear how profoundly they have alienated such vital voting blocs as the Hispanic population, are desperate to hobble Hillary Clinton before the next race.

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Charles Laurence is a US correspondent for The Week.co.uk. He is a former New York bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph. He divides his time between Manhattan and Woodstock, upstate New York.