I took a little time off from watching my hard-working little mother hummingbird as she tirelessly made trips from fields of flowers to feed her chicks. What a marvel she is.  On the way to and from my Thursday stint at the Museum of Photographic Arts, I got the following pictures with my cell phone.

It’s been easier today to ratchet down my disappointment (In an earlier Blog post this week I called it “outrage”) that the IRS last year targeted with “requests for additional information” some conservative organizations applying for 501 (C) (4) tax exempt status. Some of the most vocal aggrieved paragons of virtue in the conservative camp have been squealing about the unfairness of it all.  I continue to feel that those within the IRS who are responsible for the targeting should be called to account for aiming just at conservative not-for-profits.  The entire 501 (c) (4) category should be re-examined and all organizations that enjoy that designation, both liberal and conservative, should be required to prove their programs do not violate the requirement that their agenda remain apolitical.

The biggest squealers:

Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell has been apoplectic in his expression of outrage, suggesting that the President should consider resigning as “the honorable” Richard Nixon did over Watergate.   McConnell whose net worth was $27 million in 2010 has never had a private sector job.  He came to the Senate in 1985.  

Darrell Issa took time from his raging about what he considers to be the President’s shortcomings generally and Benghazi specifically to express his outrage over IRS mistake.   Mr. Issa is the richest member of Congress with a net worth of around $450 million.

Pat Robertson, a humble pastor cum theologian, takes every opportunity to blame President Obama for everything from weakening American families to national betrayal of the Constitution. His net worth is over $30 million.  His Christian Coalition enjoys 501 (C) (4) IRS status. This guy whose opinions on homosexuality, politics and the coming of  the Mark of the Beast are expressed daily on his “700 Club” television program. He said yesterday that the problem of “the straying man” in marriage is basically the fault of the woman in the relationship.  A man can be expected to stray “because he is a man,” Robertson explained. His advice to a woman whose husband had strayed was to make herself “prettier” and make her home a place from which her man would be less inclined to stray.

Glenn Beck has risen from humble Southern beginnings to become a major, though unelected, conservative American voice.  He was worth  $105 million In 2011.   Beck founded the non-profit organization Mercury One.

Rush Limbaugh, whose net worth is around $350 million, has added the IRS issue to his long list of reasons he has for saying President Obama is leading America to ruin. 

Poor Michelle Bachmann’s net worth is just $3 million. She had plenty to say about the IRS problem.  She begins by saying the President should do the honorable thing and resign.

By the way, I do know that Democrats as well as Republicans who manage to get elected to Congress soon after getting to Washington slip quickly upward and out of the category of “average” American.