With his recent road show to trumpet his economic plans, President Obama has developed a favorite phrase for diagnosing what ails Washington: “phony scandals.”

Those “phony scandals” encompass a series of issues the White House is trying to defang, including the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups, the delay of Obamacare’s employer mandate, the Justice Department snooping on reporters and the administration’s response to the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya.