The IRS has lost the emails of Lois Lerner and six other key people including those that also worked for the White House. In a play on words to the Chicago song: "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is - Does Anybody Really Care?", I would add of this administration and its affiliated "hench organizations", "Does Anybody Really Know What Truth Is - Does Anybody (in the Administration) Really Care?" True to the words from the J.J. Cale song, "Lies", "Lies, Lies, Lies". At some point, the liars actually are so deluded they actually believe the lies! !
This is corrupt "Chicago Style" politics that has totally infected Washington and this Administration to boot!
I liked the rep that asked for the NSA to provide a copy of the lost e-mails. Personally I think that this and Bengazi are the two side shows offered up to keep our eyes and minds off the dismantling of our constitutional protections. Why the republicans keep going after this stuff as opposed to the destruction of the our fourth amendmant rights and the some of the more disgusting excesses of homeland security and CBP I'll never know. Maybe its because the IRS shenanigans involve winning elections which under the current system is way more important than our rights as a free people. Any way, worst administration in rectnt history, be interesting to see if the next one tries to race it to the bottom.
All of the government "over-reach" is bad, including the ineptness that took four American lives in Benghazi, and, now we know, the subsequent lies surrounding the attack, the IRS over-reach (and everyone ought to be concerned about that of all political stripes, and the over-reaches of the NSA, and the judicial activism that in no way resembles the limited functions described in our Constitution, and the abuse of "executive orders by many", and the list goes on. If the government is "unlimited enough" to pick and choose what "rights" it wants to enforce or support, it is "unlimited enough" to take your rights away. I disagree that the IRS shenanigans are only about winning elections, it is about the proper role of a government agency (in this case turned attack dog) in NOT targeting anyone (conservative or liberal) improperly and WE SHOULD FIND OUT "WHO DONE IT"!
"Same Ole Stuff" is right. I have no doubt that Obama is just as corrupt, self serving and crooked as his predecessors from both parties. But to me, the most evil crimes are the propagation of war under false pretenses. That said, lying is lying and I, just like most people, would love to see an honest man in the White House. Many people would credit Carter as the most honest and most people would agree that he didn't work out so well....This is corrupt "Chicago Style" politics that has totally infected Washington and this Administration to boot!
-Yeah, Washington was great until 2008 when the Chicago group got in there.
Yes, and both parties are to have the blame laid at their feet for sure. I don't know that we can just be "isolationists" and not care what goes on in the world. We tried that for a while prior to WWI and WWII and both those "justifiable" wars took more lives than all other wars in our history combined including the bloody Civil War (talk about unjustified). It is 9-11 occurred, and BOTH parties voted to go in there. It is also important to remember that we were in neither Afghanistan nor Iraq when 9-11 happened, and we do have a factual record that Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against the Kurds in his own country. There is no easy answer to this one, and anyone, of any political party, would be challenged.
However, in our system, which we should fight to preserve in its great founding principles, has proved to be adaptive to change and the most "fair" system, overall, for all people no matter what color, sex or economic status. As long as man in his "imperfect" form, we will have to live with the junk that accompanies it: physical, mental, spiritual. Oh, Washington has been broken for at least 80 years, and, IMHO, we are living with the unintended consequences of misguided "compassion" ever since.