Sen. Dick Durbin has consistently shown his affinity for the Internal Revenue Service. As we’ve laid out earlier, he has cozied up quite well with disgraced IRS executive Lois Lerner, using her to defeat his opponent, used the taxing body to go after his political foes, and even receives financial support from employees. It turns out, though, that this IRS alliance has a history dating back to the Clinton Administration.
In 1998, when Congress was debating a restructuring plan to root out the corruption and problems plaguing the nation’s tax collector, then-Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee proposed removing the exemption from criminal ethics rules for IRS employees, among others, who serve on the oversight board. Take a wild guess how Durbin voted.
You already know that Durbin voted against the Thompson Amendment so he could protect his soon-to-be buddies at the IRS from criminal prosecution. Now, 16 years later, we have the IRS chasing after conservative groups at Durbin’s whim and the IRS Commissioner saying “Wherever we can, we follow the law.”
Just more proof the American People could benefit from Dumping Durbin this year.
- See more at: http://dumpdurbin.org/?p=133#sthash.5Sx3cEBz.dpuf
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