Your tax dollars hard at work

Commerce, Treasury funds helped boost GOP campaigns

Marisa Taylor and Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - Top Commerce and Treasury department officials appeared with Republican candidates and doled out millions in federal money in battleground congressional districts and states after receiving White House political briefings detailing GOP election strategy.

Political appointees in the Treasury Department received at least 10 political briefings from July 2001 to August 2006, officials familiar with the meetings said. Their counterparts at the Commerce Department received at least four briefings - all in the election years of 2002, 2004 and 2006.

The House Oversight Committee is investigating whether the White House's political briefings to at least 15 agencies, including to the Justice Department, the General Services Administration and the State Department, violated a ban on the use of government resources for campaign activities.

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Ya gotta wonder what would have happened if Republicans had uncovered a real crime like this during the Clinton administration. What do you suppose the reaction would have been?

I really don't know how much more right wing "honesty and integrity" we can afford but I do know that Bill's blow job didn't cost the tax payers anything until the voyeurs on the right got involved with it.