Daily Archives: 1 August 2013

Spend, Spend, and Tax

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President Barack Obama offered, the other day, a “grand bargain” on taxes and spending that only a Progressive could love.  Obama offered to lower corporate tax rates (so long as he got to delete enough non-“green energy” subsidies to get a net increase in Federal revenues), if only he could use that increase to spend more (and not pay down our Federal deficit).

“I’m just going to keep on throwing ideas out there,” Obama told a crowd of supporters, challenging Republicans to offer counterproposals.

Never mind that those Evil Republicans in the House already have passed a large number of…counterproposals…over the last couple of years.  Those jobs bills, among all the other counterproposals, are languishing in the Democrat-controlled Senate.

Transparency and a Phony Scandal

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Here‘s some more on President Barack Obama’s phony scandals—the IRS one.

The House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee letter directly blames acting Commissioner Danny Werfel for the “systematic manner” in which his agency has “attempted to delay, frustrate, impede and obstruct” the committee’s investigation, despite his promising just weeks earlier to fully cooperate.

“The actions of the IRS under your leadership have made clear to the committee that the agency has no intention of complying completely or promptly with the committee’s oversight efforts,” wrote committee Chairman Congressman Darrell Issa (R, CA).

Indeed, Werfel has only delivered some 12,000 pages of the requested 64 million—less than 2 hundredths of a single per cent of the request—and many of those are merely duplicates or so badly redacted as to be useless.

This is transparency of Orwellian proportions.