Can a GOP Congress Stop the New IRS Gestapo?
Posted By: earlybird, 8/15/2022 7:59:11 PM
Since the Mar-a-Lago raid, Republican leadership has been bloviating at every opportunity about how they will “investigate” crimes of the Democratic Party and their three-letter agency allies like The Erinyes should the GOP win back Congress, as widely predicted, in November. Fine. But investigations mostly end up as just more bloviating accompanied, at best, by useless recommendations for action by a Justice Department that’s as likely to follow them as I am to be writing my next column from Alpha Centauri. Something has to be done that’s concrete. (snip) How about some actual actions, difficult as that may be? How about exercising the famous congressional “power of the purse.”
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Since the Mar-a-Lago raid, Republican leadership has been bloviating at every opportunity about how they will “investigate” crimes of the Democratic Party and their three-letter agency allies like The Erinyes should the GOP win back Congress, as widely predicted, in November.
Fine.
But investigations mostly end up as just more bloviating accompanied, at best, by useless recommendations for action by a Justice Department that’s as likely to follow them as I am to be writing my next column from Alpha Centauri.
Something has to be done that’s concrete. (snip)
How about some actual actions, difficult as that may be? How about exercising the famous congressional “power of the purse.”
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