Your tax dollars at work; or, nice work if you can get it.
"When Congress breaks Thursday for the Fourth of July recess, it will have only 28 days left to work before Election Day."
BREAK in which the writer tells us how much is still undone.
"That leaves 28 days — 16 until Congress lets out for summer recess — from Aug. 1 to Sept. 8 — and after that, only 10 days of session left until the end of the 2014 fiscal year. Then it’s just two work days more until a month of stumping in their home districts before polls open on Nov. 4, after which they’ll allow themselves a week off for an electoral hangover."
"It's inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it. I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives. ... I'll do everything in my power to make sure nothing like this happens again by holding the responsible parties accountable. ..." -- President Barack Obama condemning "misconduct" at the Internal Revenue Service, May 15, 2013.