From Daily Inter Lake
By TOM SHAUGHNESSY
Is
it really raining scandals in Washington? How is it that when four
people are killed in Benghazi, it is a scandal but 4,500 of America's
finest killed in the shrub-Cheney neo-con war in Iraq, a war started on
lies, that is just fine, no problem?
In 2011 the House repugicans cut $150 million from security for our embassies; in 2012
they cut $300 million more. Did those cuts have anything to do with four
Americans being killed? Is that not a scandal? How is Fast and Furious
not a scandal when the shrub junta starts it, but it is a
scandal when Obama stops it? When the IRS spends $50 million to party,
that is a scandal. For the IRS to investigate groups asking for
tax-exempt status, that is their job. They should investigate them all.
In
a recent hearing Sen. Baucus revealed that in 1959, the Eisenhower
administration, the IRS illegally changed the wording of the law on
501(c)4 groups from "exclusively" to "primarily," thus all 501(c)4
groups that have any political action, all the tea party groups
complaining to Congress, do not qualify for tax-exempt status. The only
scandal would be if they are not all denied.
If there is a
scandal in Washington it is that the House Oversight committee under repugican Darrel Issa, which is supposed to investigate government
wrongdoing, has been used as a political smear machine to defeat Obama.
When
that failed, it is being used to promote a continual string of supposed
scandals to try to distract the American people and discredit the
Democrats. Isn't the fact that repugican House Speaker Boehner only has
the House working less than half the time a scandal? How many taxpayers
get to work half time for full pay? Isn't spending 50 million tax
dollars to vote 38 times to kill the health-care law a scandal? That's
38 wasted votes on repealing health care and not one vote on a jobs bill
that could create jobs like the bypass here in Kalispell. A jobs bill
that could rebuild our crumbling bridges.
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