Much ado about nothing?

As you know, there is a lot of hoopla in the press about the IRS situation and their aggressive investigation of applicants having Tea Party or Patriot in their group's names.

What surprises me about this is that no reporter has dug deeper to disclose whether this IRS practice is common when they evaluate any group seeking tax-exempt status, regardless of political affiliation.  Without that information, we have no way to know whether that is common practice, or whether those groups were singled out for special attention.

For example, how about groups with Democrat or Progressive in their names?

After all, political groups are not allowed tax-exempt status, so it seems perfectly reasonable that the IRS needs to make inquiries about their intentions, financing, etc.  If that were to happen, I suspect that we would learn that other groups were similarly quizzed.

Sequester hits home

In its usual stumbling way, Congress let the Sequester go into effect.  Naturally, some its consequences were not felt right away.  They knew that the cuts that affected those citizens with the most need wouldn't cause much of a stir because they have very little clout in Congress.

But then, the FAA cuts took effect and all of a sudden, the well-heeled travelers, such as Senators and Congressmen commuting from National Airport, had to wait in line like the rest of the salarymen.  Thatt was unacceptable. 

We all saw how quickly an exception for controllers was carved out.  Then there was the meat cutters - none of us wants to buy a chunk of beef where we count on the cleanliness of the free-market, unsupervised meat purveyors.  Give them an exception.  Who's next?

I have a dream of attending a session of Congress in the peanut gallery, and with like-minded fellow citizens, standing up and shouting "SHAME ON YOU."