Sorry, but Eleanor Holmes Norton says ‘You Don’t Have A Right To Know’ What’s Going On In Government. It is a good thing she currently is a non-voting congressional delegate.

Because it will amount to nothing but foot dragging and stonewalling. :)

Good one! The word, "Progressive" has been mutated into an anti-concept. It shouldn't also mean, “A person of a collective group that believes it can tear down those who produce while doling out rubble to those who don't.” But it does.

Why do I believe any "investigation" overseen by Eric holder (probably the worst AG ever) will amount to nothing more than foot dragging and stonewalling?

I understand what you meant, I just can't wrap my mind around that term.

Seems like it should be on the top 10 list of Oxymorons to me

I consider a theft system where the more you produce, the higher the percentage you are forced pay to those who don't, is progressively ethical, which is not only unethical but destructively unethical.
They don't call it a progressive tax for nothing.

Two words turned that case you put forward into nonsense for me.

"Progressively Ethical"

Given the current administration. "Jenga" would be more appropriate than house of cards in my opinion.

If you were a police officer that had a drug dealer neighbor that was a good friend and gave you quite a bit of money every year and you were progressively ethical, would you turn the drug dealer in?

Would the justice department do such to a corrupt and progressively ethical IRS?

In order to use the wrecking ball, they'd have to have a Department of Justice who was actually interested in Justice. They'd have to have an IRS who was more interested in serving the people than in protecting a cover-up. There would have to exist more Trey Gowdy's and fewer John Boehners. There would have to be a media cry and hue for the immediate prosecution of Lerner et al like there was for Watergate and the prosecution of "Scooter" Libby. Lastly, you'd have to have a critical mass of the populace who wasn't rooting for the active subversion of the Constitution as a whole.

While using the wrecking ball would be nice, there are a lot of links in the chain that would have to be reformed first to hang it from.

I want to see her internal instant messages so bad.

Every congressman and senator should be sent a copy of the book "Tyranny calls for an act of self defense"

Of course not, the list of reasons to scream gets longer and longer.

Although you can just as easily say...

Reasons to Scream = Reasons to Shrug

:)

This isn't the ONLY thing that makes you
want to scream!

Indeed....

Those that most benefit from a system are never interested in real reform to the system.

The consequence (intended or unintended is up for debate) of turning us from a democratic republic to a representative democracy is that the most important check and balance, the people, were effectively neutered.

A mob can never take sustained reasoned action, it is by its very nature, chaotic.

You made the best argument for a term limits amendment, but it won't happen for all the reasons you listed.

The other half of the equation of course is that the voter almost never holds the politicians accountable for anything...ever.

The problem is with the career political class.

Their focus is maintaining their career, rather than the good of the country or even their constituents.

They will only ever do the minimum they can get away with to buy, bribe, or steal their way to their next term, plus a few things to get some good press.

Beyond that....NOTHING.

They are too busy grabbing and maintaining power for themselves and associating with the other "political elite".

Its that "Inside the Beltway Madness" that infects them all after a period of time that varies from one to another but all have their limits.

Makes you want to scream :P

I would settle for jackhammering at the house of cards, but chiseling isn't fast enough. To get the wrecking ball approach will be up to us.

The voters don't want to hear it so as usual nothing will come of this.

A wrecking ball approach would require far more spine than the pack of them has ever demonstrated possessing.

One more card in the house of cards just got yanked out, but the Republicans are chiseling away at the IRS scandal instead of using a wrecking ball.