Who's Side Are You On?

    It's beginning to look more and more like Syria is President Obama's Benghazi for Hillary Clinton. It's not so much what he's done wrong, it's more about what he, and she, appears to not have done right. That is to say, if you can't be 100% right and successful, the opposition is going to have you for lunch for not doing all you could have and should have done.
       Now that's not to say that the opposition is all wrong, nor is it to say the opposition is all right. By that I mean that the opposition can't form a super non-partisan committee to investigate something and then claim to have been successful in that investigation by bringing down her poll numbers. You weaken the claim that this super committee was formed to find the truth of the Benghazi misfortune.
       Of course we have to remember that all of politics is about getting the upper hand against the other party at any expense to the taxpayer. If you can spend any amount of taxpayer money to show your opponent spent taxpayer money unwisely or failed to spend taxpayer money expeditiously, then you gain that upper hand you covet.
       You almost need a scorecard to keep track of who has the upper hand during this particular news hour or that particular political talk show. And of course it depends on which news or talk show you happen to be watching at any given time period. And then there's the polls. Who's ahead in the polls depends entirely on whose polls you read and believe.
       A quick and easy method to reach your comfort level is to watch and read the media that most agrees with your comfort level. Republicans and Democrats both have their own media outlets with slanted reporting to choose from. For independent minded voters you have a choice of one or the other or both. A word of caution here, if you intend to watch both sides equally, you leave yourself open to the belief that you are viewing two distinctly different worlds.
       I hope this answers all your questions on how your taxes are spent.