One small point here — these tax scofflaws did eventually pay their tax liability plus quite hefty interest and fines. I’m just not sure if they were caught first, or voluntarily fessed up, or if one of the people/groups in opposition to their appointment dug deep enough to find these things out. The reports sounded to me like they had settled all of these problems and paid off the IRS before the Obama era.

But as you know, the Senate is still a “Good ‘Ol Boys network” which may have played its part in this whole thing.

In the long run, though, I tend to forgive someone one lapse, but they better never do the same thing a second time. One of my favorite old sayings is, “Once, shame on you. Twice, shame on me!”

Miki

Miki