Libercontrarian

Crushed between the wheels of capitalism and big government.

I vote John Murtha be the first CongressCritter examined...

A fellow blogger, Dan Murphy of AuditCongress.com, has created his blog to petition the government to have the IRS audit high public officials each year. We're not talking the Assistant to the Undersecretary of Labor here - we're talking about guys like Tim Geitner, Rahm Emmanuel, Joe Biden, Barrack Obama, John Murtha... Hey, let's audit John Murtha! That area of the carpet could use a serious steam cleaning, and with good reason, says Clarice Feldman of Pajamas Media. From her article on the former-Marine-turned-scallywag:

In between skating on the Abscam charge and never really being held to account yet for slandering the troops, Murtha has used his position as chairman of the defense appropriations subcommittee of the House of Representatives to funnel well over a hundred million dollars in earmarks — largely but not exclusively on defense matters — to confederates in his district who return to him substantial campaign contributions which permit his repeated re-election to office. If you think this pork game is harmless, you are not paying close attention: the process deprives the Department of Defense of the right to obtain the best equipment at the best, most competitive price for the troops and saddles it with services performed by companies on which it does not wish to expend its allotted funds.

This is EXACTLY what Murphy is playing at with AuditCongress.com - placing The Untouchables into the Touch Zone. We The People should be able to view the year-by-year tax returns of our supposed betters, if for no other reason than to force them to prove that their financial behavior is beyond reproach.

After all, they expect (and will have investigators demand) the same from us - if you don't think so, just try not paying your taxes for a couple of years and see what happens to you.

I am frankly tired of Congressmen and Senators getting caught with tens of thousands of dollars in their freezers or receiving free houses from oil companies.

Aren't you tired of voting for them?

posted by: underwhelmed at February 12, 2009 15:50 | link | comments (1) |

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#1  13 February 2009 - 21:59

 

Nick, Thanks for keeping the fire going! We all need to speak up and demand clean government. Dan Murphy

underwhelmed

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