something this badly. now, i want to be very clear, the irs has an obligation to investigate. i don t like your use of the word target. if you file and request tax exempt status and you write on your application we re going to be engaged in political activity, the irs is required by congress to investigate you. on the other hand, congress has also said you can declare you re a 501 c-4 organization, we need to fix this. my column says you can fix this with eight words, all they have to do is put in section 501 c-4 exclusively devoted to promoting social welfare, comma, and prohibited from engaging in political activity election activity. there you go, the solution lawrence o donnell has been talking about exclusively, as well. you made a great point, david cay johnson, as a lover of the bill of rights, we should not criticize someone for their invocation of their fifth amendment right, particularly
and you just can t bungle something this badly. now, i want to be very clear, the irs has an obligation to investigate. i don t like your use of the word target. if you file a request tax exempt status and write on your application we re going to be engaged in political activity, irs is required by congress to investigate you, on the other hand, congress has also said you can declare you re a 501 c-4 organization, we need to fix that. my column says you can fix this with eight words, all they have to do is put in section 501 c-4 exclusively devoted to promoting social welfare, comma, and prohibited from engaging in political activity election activity. there you go, the solution lawrence o donnell has been talking about exclusively, as well. you made a great point, david cay johnson, as a lover of the bill of rights, we should not criticize someone for their invocation for the fifth amendment rights.
was authorized to do, but lerner took it upon herself to do this. and you just can t bungle something this badly. now, i want to be very clear, the irs has an obligation to investigate. i don t like your use of the word target. if you file a request tax exempt status and write on your application we re going to be engaged in political activity, irs is required by congress to investigate you, on the other hand, congress has also said you can declare you re a 501 c-4 organization, we need to fix that. my column says you can fix this with eight words, all they have to do is put in section 501 c-4 exclusively devoted to promoting social welfare, comma, and prohibited from engaging in political activity election activity. there you go, the solution lawrence o donnell has been talking about exclusively, as well. you made a great point, david cay johnson, as a lover of the bill of rights, we should not
in the oval office right now, leading on the sensitive issue of these forced budget cuts. one of the things i thought was very hopeful and interesting about what mitt romney said was his acknowledgement that the sequester is bad news. this is not our first step toward a rational deficit reduction program. it s bad news. and if we could at least al agree on that, we could get away from these cuts that are landing on the defense budget. $47 billion is going to come out the defense budget between now and the end of the fiscal year. even as the united states is winding down two wars. this is not the way to go. i m glad mitt romney is saying that. everybody agrees this is not the best way of cutting spends. across the board, meat clever spending. they would like to do it with a scalpel but we haven t come up w a deal. with all due respect to mr. romney, he ain t the solution. i m glad it s killing him. i m glad. because you know it s killing the middle class. at least he s suffering a
recent downturn was a housing crisis created reckless government policies and the idea that more taxes and more government spending is a way to help middle class taxpayers that s an old idea failed every time it has been tried. more government isn t going to help you get ahead it s going to hold you back. many believe that rubio is on the short list for presidential contenders possibly in 2016. that brings us to syndicated columnist and fox news contributor charles krauthammer. he says the response offered a right contrast to president obama s vision of more government. when reagan was inaugurated within 10 minutes he said government isn t the solution it s the problem. that was the theme with rubio s speech and really an ideological contrast. he is a man of government represents the party of government. every issue he raised in his speech had a government solution