Arsonists Posing as Firemen: How GOP Sabotages Government for Fun and Profit

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https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/08



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None of this is new, as far as a generally accepted meme, but what’s not getting much play, are how the specific problems Republicans are shouting themselves into a frothing frenzy about at the moment have been engineered by them.

Let’s look at the top five, and one emerging issue.

Benghazi two-step: While hypocrites like Darrell Isa, hold show hearings trying to create the illusion of malfeasance, guess who rejected budget requests for defending our Embassies and Counsels overseas? Why yes. The Republicans. And guess who warned them this would have consequences. The Obama Administration. And yet, when the inevitable happens, who do Republicans blame? You guessed it.

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Veterans on Waiting Lists: People like Boehner and McConnell and assorted other blowhards have been full of righteous indignation and blame about veterans on waiting lists and attempts to hide the wait.

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IRS beach blanket bingo: Meanwhile, the “targeting” of conservative groups by the IRS seems to be a desperate attempt of an underfunded IRS branch trying to keep up with an explosion in potential abuses of the tax exempt status under the 501 c 4 provision. This section of the IRS code restricts political action, and requests to qualify under this provision, as well as groups operating as such – mostly by conservative groups -- was exploding. Faced with budget cuts, the branch sought to use search terms to find the groups who might be abusing this provision. Since most of the growth in use of the provision came from conservative groups, that’s where they focused.

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1. What if expenditures of 501 (c)s were stricter regulated?

What if a 501 (c)-organization were obliged by law to spend a fixed percentage (far north of 50%) of its donations for its "main purpose"?