Courtesy of Larry Doyle.
How sad.
In light of the ongoing developments with the stories centering on Benghazi and the abuse of power within the IRS, I feel compelled to offer a brief comment.
Politics is certainly a dirty business.
National security in a world filled with new risks has likely never been more challenging. That said, there comes a point in time where politics need to be set aside and the people’s business needs to be prioritized.
In the course of a brief conversation with a reporter who covers the scene in Washington, he shared with me that a since departed senior White House official shared with him that he was frustrated in his capacity. Why so?
Because “everything is political” in the current administration. He offered that prior administrations, both Democratic and Republican alike, would concentrate on how the politics played out 75-80 per cent of the time. After that, political leaders from both parties would settle down and try to get the people’s business done. Not so currently as everything is addressed in terms of how it will play politically.
In a city and an administration in which everything is political, what suffers and is often compromised? The truth.
How does that happen? A compliant media having abdicated its responsibility to find and promote “all the truth that’s fit to print” fails to uphold that mandate.
I would like to think that I am not so naive as to think that there will not always be issues of national security in which information needs to remain privileged. But when seemingly every issue is viewed through the prism of how it will play politically, then I firmly believe America as a whole suffers.
What really happened within the Internal Revenue Service to allow selected groups to be singled out and subjected to inappropriate review? In similar fashion, what has really happened within many of our financial regulatory agencies that have failed to protect the interests of homeowners, investors, consumers,and the American taxpayer?
When the truth takes a back seat to the politics, a culture of crony abuse of power is allowed to propagate.
Sad but true, I think America is awash in this political cesspool currently.
Where are the real political leaders from both sides of the aisle and where are the leaders within the media who are willing to stand up and say . . . ENOUGH??
Thoughts, comments, constructive criticisms encouraged and appreciated.
Larry Doyle
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I have no business interest with any entity referenced in this commentary. The opinions expressed are my own. I am a proponent of real transparency within our markets so that investor confidence and investor protection can be achieved.
