Darrell Issa: YOUR TAX DOLLARS, SITTING IDLE IN A TEXAS WAREHOUSE. The federal TSA used your $44 million of your tax dollars to purchase 1,500 “explosive trace detectors” that, as of February, were holed up in storage. Darrell and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Republicans uncovered this and other evidence of abuse in an investigative report they published earlier this month.
Darrell Issa: WONDER WHAT THAT “ONE SMALL STEP” WAS LIKE? Neil Armstrong lets you in on the details here:
Darrell Issa: “THE ROAD TO FISCAL HELL IS PAVED WITH ‘PROGRESSIVE’ INTENTIONS.” The challenges in the Golden State are much like those faced in the Garden State, but the tacks taken by their respective executive leaders couldn’t be more different. One is unambitious with reforms and gratuitous with tax proposals. The other secured public employee reforms from a partisan legislature and is working to return more money to taxpayers. Given that one state managed to close a deficit while the other’s just got wider shows which method appears to be working.