the effect was one in the same, wasn't it???

Efficiency is what happens with your OWN MONEY!!! No one could possibly mistake what they do with ANYONE who operates in an efficient manner. This is Laugh Out Loud funny!!!

In my lifetime, I don't recall a member of the Executive Branch testifying before Congress with more contempt and arrogance than what I witnessed yesterday watching Atty. Gen. Holder. His utter disgust and disrespect implies an ill-gotten "get out of jail free" card that American citizens just don't have. I wish I could walk up to him and slap that smirk off his face. It would at least make ME feel better!!!

I think he knew about the gay NBA faster than he did the IRS...at least on the record!!!

There will no heads rolling. They will dig their heels in the sand, claim executive privilege to answer any subpeonas, and will rock on with business as usual, creating more taxes and regulations. They are very very good at this, and those who are supposed to keep them honest are cowardly and fearful. That is not a good recipe for honesty and transparency.

Dan Rather's hit piece on W just before the election was most assuredly NOT advocacy....Right? That would be CBS' posture....or rather position. Ahem.

What the guys did in Bengazi that we are covering up, or at least allowing to be covered up, was brave. What the first responders did in West Tx was brave. What Collins did was completely opportunistic and politically charged. Bravery involves risk to life and death. How would an NBA player be at risk in that setting? Magic Johnson is doing just fine with HIV and has handled his situation just fine. Brave? Hardly.

I'm guessing that there are at LEAST two federal judges who feel the same way as Obama daily thumbs his liberal nose at them, after they found him to be in contempt. Wonder how THAT works???

Youtube had several postings of actual meetings where congressional members of the oversight committees attempted to break down Franks and Dodd, but were unsuccessful. This was an outright run on our system by these two who belong in orange jumpsuits. Oh, and one other thing, they never believed in free enterprise OR hard work. You were wrong about that, too. This was government, LIBERAL government who made a mess of this. Not hard working Americans.

Mona, your characterization of the run up to 2008 is simply not correct. "First, those who believe in free enterprise and hard work and happened to have control of much government in the first decade of this millennium overplayed their hand. They stretched our nation's capacity to wage war, and refused to keep a watchful eye on Wall Street, banks and the Federal Reserve, while at the same time expanding domestic spending by the federal government." I'm sorry. This is patently untrue. The democrats held off any attempt to reign in excesses. The record quite clear about that, including the long list of "donations" made to Dodd, Obama, Franks, et al by FNMA, just to identify one set.