Steve Forbes, head of Forbes magazine and two-time candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, has published an editorial on the Forbes website that will also appear in the July 21 issue of Forbes. It is titled The Time Has Come: Defund the IRS. I highly recommend you read the whole thing. It is only three paragraphs long but every word is comedy gold. It begins with this riveting lead:
The current IRS scandals are now bigger than those of Watergate in the 1970s and Teapot Dome in the 1920s. The most powerful and feared government agency was turned loose on groups of citizens who the White House and congressional Democrats felt threatened their power.
I had no idea that the IRS scandal had surpassed Teapot Dome, but there you go. The rest of the editorial goes on like this for a couple of paragraphs, culminating is Steve Forbes' call to action:
There can be no more continuing resolutions that allow the tax-collection agency to operate business as usual, even though Congress hasn’t passed an appropriations bill. If a continuing resolution is necessary to avoid a government shutdown, then by all means pass one–but specifically do a near-zeroing-out of the IRS (the only exception would be a handful of clerks to process refunds) until these scandals are fully and credibly investigated. If the President vetoes such a budget resolution, the onus is on him, not Congress.
There you have it--insightful political analysis and advice from a former Republican presidential candidate. What could possibly go wrong?