IRS: Toothless. FEC: "Thoroughly Broken."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/irs-fec-political-groups-gone-wild

You couldn't devise a better political hit-and-run.

In the summer of 2010, an unknown group called the Commission on Hope, Growth, and Opportunity asked (PDF) the Internal Revenue Service to grant it 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status. The organization told the IRS it didn't plan to spend a penny on politics. Once the IRS gave CHGO the green light, however, the group plunged into the 2010 political season. It would ultimately raise $4.8 million—$4 million of that from a single anonymous donor—and spend $2.3 million on TV ads attacking 11 House Democrats running for reelection. (Ten of them lost.)

Later, on its 2010 and 2011 tax returns, CHGO claimed it hadn't spent money on politics. Watchdogs filed complaints against CHGO alleging it had flouted tax and election laws. But sometime in 2011, after the Republicans' 2010 "shellacking," CHGO quietly disappeared. The group, and the anonymous individuals behind it, has yet to face any punishment.

The tale is a familiar one in the campaign finance world, illustrating the slow-moving, scattershot nature of justice when it comes to political money. The Federal Election Commission, the nation's top election cop, is gridlocked by ideological differences. The IRS, whose role includes policing nonprofits, moves at a glacial pace, and traditionally investigates a small sliver of groups under its watch. This lawlessness is even more relevant, say watchdog groups, in the aftermath of Citizens United and other key court decisions, which led to a surge in spending by super-PACs and dark-money nonprofits.

With more money and more outside groups playing in politics than ever before, watchdogs say federal regulators need to wake up and take action—fast. "What is the point of having laws on the books if they are not enforced?" says Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "With the November elections only five months away, these agencies need to act now to make sure this election isn’t a repeat of the 'anything goes' mentality of 2010."

there are so many "if's", then there is the fickle electorate. faith in our fellow man in this decade has all but been erased by the nefarious endeavors of the right wing neo politicians if they can be called that, more like running for a free ride. after all they've done nothing but name some streets obstruct, name some buildings obstruct, vote 33 times to kill your healthcare by obstructing, tax you, not them because they don't believe in tax for them anyway, obstruct, no jobs bill promised in 2010, obstruct, leave women who are being violated on their own but there is no aggression against women, " The greatest
trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. the usual suspects, are on the right.
http://hobnobblog.com/congress-by-the-numbers/congressional-schedules/

continuing their right wing aggression against women, obstructing, then the "coup de grace", they tell "we the people" their employer's "they will do nothing till after the election", that expression of arrogance deserves a pink slip for all who tell us they will not do what we pay them to do, while taking unprecedented breaks, they are punking us, while claiming to want to lower expenses, fire them for all they have not done why do we need them running up millions in operating expense to do "ABSOLUTELY NOTHING"?

The prime culprit in today's lawless political playing field, watchdogs say, is the FEC. The commission's three Republican commissioners have declared themselves ideologically opposed to much of the campaign finance law, and have succeeded in grinding the FEC's work to a halt on the most important issues. Among the FEC's six members, the number of deadlocks on enforcement actions averaged 1 percent between 2003 and 2007, then spiked to 16 percent in 2009 and 11 percent in 2010. "The FEC is now thoroughly broken, and when it comes to enforcement of the campaign finance law, we don't have any," says Craig Holman, a lobbyist with the ethics group Public Citizen. (The FEC declined to comment.)