Addressing the symptom not the cause

There seems to be an overriding trend in Washington, DC. Both political parties are quite guilty of it. In our system of checks and balances, those involved go after the symptom and not the cause of the problems with which we are faced. Such is the case with former IRS head Lois Lerner. The House Ways and Means Committee is expected to formally ask the Justice Department to criminally charge Lerner for her role in the IRS targeting citizens who opposed the policies and politics of the occupant of the Oval Office. The committee also intends to vote later this week on holding Lerner in contempt of Congress for her refusal to answer questions regarding the matter. Symptom, not the cause.

This is the way our elected representatives think. If they go after Lerner, at least they have something on record to show the public about the administration. True to form, it is very likely that Attorney General Eric Holder will not yield to the committee's request in bringing criminal charges against Lerner. Holder is the guy who authorized selling guns to Mexican drug dealers, getting our border agents killed. He also is the one who refuses to enforce marriage laws. He also is responsible for not enforcing immigration laws. What makes anyone think that he would comply with a Congressional request to bring criminal charges against someone who was doing what she was told to do by his "president"?

Get the picture? It was this president and his cronies who ordered the targeting and intimidation of political opponents through the IRS. This president also is allowing the NSA, FBI, DHS, NASA and any other unconstitutional agency to spy on Americans under the guise of rooting out terrorism. Yet, it is this president who has adopted the terrorist-sponsoring Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign policy partner, and he has partnered with offshoots of al Qaeda and other terrorist groups in Libya, Syria, Yemen, Egypt and who knows where else. While Congressional checks and balances are examining the small lump on the surface, a great cancer has overtaken the body. Is this election year posturing?

The IRS and other unconstitutional agencies in the federal government are in need of dismantling as they wield unelected and unlawful power. The "president" is overseeing arguably the most secretive and soft tyrannical government in the history of the United States. The Congress and the Supreme Court are supposed to be the check and balance against such tyranny. Yet they toy with minions rather than deal with kingpins. Isaiah 32:7 says, " The schemes also of the schemer are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks justly." There is too much scheming going on in our nation's capitol, even when it seems for the better.