Crooked 'Til The End


Here it is the eve of the most important presidential election in recent history; certainly in my lifetime. Someone with any common sense would think that the incumbent candidate would be walking the straight-and-narrorw, keeping everything on the up-and-up so as not to give his opponents any further ammunition with which to engineer his defeat. This incumbent however, as I've often said, has no common sense. He possesses only arrogance and flagrant disregard for the workings of a fair democracy. On the eve of his possible re-election or defeat, the SCAB (Supreme Court Appointed Bush), is up to his same old dirty tricks, and so I find myself either writing a final rant against this crook who stole the office of U.S. President in 2000, or at the beginning a new four-year series. So what has the SCAB done now to once again fan the flames of lefties like me? Why, nothing less than to "let fly the dogs of IRS" on the NAACP!

The issue concerns a speech given by the NAACP's Chairman, Julian Bond, at the NAACP's 95th annual convention in which Mr. Bond criticized the SCAB's administration on its piss-poor record on affirmative action, the Iraq war, civil rights, and the economy. Mr. Bond did not endorse any other political candidate, he merely criticized the SCAB's administration. Now, the week before the presidential election, IRS Chairman, Mark Everson, has announced that the IRS will review the tax exempt status of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization because of this speech -- a speech that was delivered on July 11, almost four months ago!

Granted, Mr. Bond's speech was pretty harsh, and could be argued to be politically partisan. So why isn't it okay for the IRS to review the tax exempt status of the NAACP? Because it once again blatantly implements a double-standard that is not applied to all tax exempt entities, only those that are not in alignment with the current administration's policies. If the IRS were operating in a truly non-partisan fashion, then it would also be reviewing the tax exempt status of the Catholic church, which went much farther than merely criticizing Senator Kerry. An Archbishop for the Catholic church has openly mandated that no Catholic may vote for a candidate who supports abortion rights. Where's the IRS Chairman on that issue? I'll tell you where -- right in the SCAB's pocket.

I just don't understand how even the most die-hard Republican can in good conscience vote for giving these crooks a second term. I can only assume that anyone still willing to vote for the SCAB and his gang of mobsters is mainlining Fox News Kool-Aid!

So what can we do about the SCAB's down-to-the-wire abuse of power and privilege? Well, for starters, visit the Government Accountability Office's FraudNet web site and lodge a complaint again the IRS and Chairman Mark Everson's review of the NAACP's tax exempt status without equal review of the Catholic church. And more importantly, visit your polling place tomorrow and vote for John Kerry. Even if you're not a Kerry supporter, right off the bat you'll get a couple of tangible benefits from defeating the SCAB: 1) you'll have four years to rant and fume in your own blog about "that damned Democrat in the White House"; and 2) you'll finally shut me up and get me back to writing about techie issues! Do us all a favor and vote Kerry!


Posted: Mon - November 1, 2004 at 10:38 AM          

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