It never ceases to amaze that politicians spend millions, sometimes tens-of-millions, of dollars to go to Washington to serve the people as lawmakers and earn far less than the cost of even one campaign. It is even more curious that over the past five years Republicans spend copious amounts of their donors’ money and have done little else than search for a scandal involving the African American President they have proven to hate with a biblical passion. It is a travesty, and a mystery, why any American would vote for Republicans who not only do nothing for the American people, but spend the majority of their waking hours wasting taxpayer time and money investigating alleged White House scandals that, more often than not, are of their own making. Darrell Issa has led investigations into the President for Issa’s scheme with an I.R.S. inspector general to target teabagger groups seeking tax-exempt status, the Benghazi attack Republicans caused by cutting embassy security funding, and George W. Bush’s deal to send guns into Mexico. Although Issa is the face of the investigations into the Obama Administration, he obviously has the blessings of Republican leadership, Fox News, the Koch brothers, and a plethora of behind-the-scenes conservatives. Not to be outdone, in the Senate a Republican thought he had seized on a White House scandal that did not develop the way he planned, and as usual, it is a scandal involving at least two Republicans who the Securities and Exchange Commission allege violated the law involving stock trades and privileged information. Early last year, traders on Wall Street “mysteriously” discovered that the Obama administration was planning to make a policy change to Medicare before the news was even announced. Subsequently, there was a flurry of stock trades involving major health care companies that aroused suspicion of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC); it also caught the attention of Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley. Grassley took the typical Republican position and immediately blamed the African American in the Oval Office as the “source of the leak” and used his position as a member of the Senate Finance and Judiciary committees to investigate the Obama Administration. However, as is nearly always the case when Republicans accuse and attack the White House of wrongdoing, it turns out the insider trading leak originated with a House Republican; and a former aide to none other than Republican Senator Chuck Grassley.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:19:12 +0000
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