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November 22, 2004

The Stupid Party: GOPers Slip In Provision Allowing Congressional Staffers to View All Citizens' Tax Information

Yeahhhp, there's a reason the GOP wasn't trusted to run the country for whole swaths of the twentieth century.

Every now and again a Republican does something so transcendentally stupid that you actual admire the sheer imbecility of the retardation.

Did either of these two morons notice that their own constituents kinda hate the IRS, and are suspicious of government power generally? I don't think most of these dimwits are deep philosophers; but when they don't even seem to have the most basic instincts regarding their own political survival, I begin to worry.

The late great Michael Kelly lamented that every time the Republicans seem to actually be on the verge of political popularity-- even dominance -- they regress, for some reason, to doing the sort of stupid shit they're always being accused of secretly wanting to do.

It kinda makes it hard to rebut that suspicion, guys, when you, you know, actually go ahead and do the stupid shit that you secretly want to do.


posted by Ace at 04:54 AM
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I dont know what happened here. It's a monumental fuck-up of biblical proportions.

Posted by: on November 22, 2004 05:00 AM

Well--

Republican leaders said that their motives had been misread and that there was never any intention to invade the privacy of taxpayers. They promised that the provision would be deleted from the bill in a special session on Wednesday before the spending measure, which cleared Congress on Saturday night, was sent to President Bush for his signature.
Actually, after reading that chapter in O/Rourke's Parliament of Whores (the one about the unnamed senator's busy day) I'm not surprised this slipped under their radar or they forgot or whatever. They probably just read a summary of the bill off a card and left the details up to staffers, themselves overworked. In any case, they're going to take it out so you can come down off the ceiling.

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Posted by: on November 22, 2004 07:26 AM

I'm normally a suspicious person, but I just can't get too worked up here. Seems to be an obvious oversight/slip-up, easily brought to light and corrected. The intent of the provision was good - allow congressional oversight of IRS offices.

And Pelosi is still a POS.

Posted by: on November 22, 2004 07:39 AM

As a lifelong Conservative Republican, I must say it is scary that we have so many idiots in the party. Beginning with the one who wants to give amnesty to Illegal Aliens, down to those who want to amend the constitution so Ahhnold can run. Yikes!!! But they only prove how right conservative philosophy is: that government which governs least, governs best.

Posted by: on November 22, 2004 10:16 AM

This WOULD be serious if they had truly intended to do this,and I agree that it was pretty STUPID,but this is yet another MSM/DEM attempt to inflict the death of 1000 cuts on an opponent they just can't beat directly.
Y-A-H-N

Posted by: on November 22, 2004 11:26 AM

"The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then gets elected and proves it."

- P.J. O'Rourke (1989), Holidays in hell. London (Picador), 270-271

Posted by: on November 22, 2004 01:33 PM

God I hate to tell you this Ace. But in the immortal words of GLEN REYNOLDS: READ THE WHOLE THING. It was put in AT THE REQUEST of the IRS.

Posted by: on November 22, 2004 01:53 PM

1:53 PM comment:

Oh, so if something is demanded to be inserted at the "request" of bureaucrats at the IRS, two unelected Republican staffers are obligated to take pity on that Great, Misunderstood Federal Agency and atempt to void privacy protections for all American citizens????

CBS did the right thing with the idiot woman who broke into their top rated most lucrative show - CSI - to announce Yasir Arafat was finally dead. They fired her for terminal stupidity. The Reps should do the same to the two staffers. THEN go after the IRS's backdoor scheme....

Posted by: on November 22, 2004 02:59 PM

This is what you’re blowing a gasket over, some green eyeshade provision in an appropriations bill?! You want to argue this says something bad about Republicans, go ahead, but it really says more about your paranoia than anything else.

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