Not sure I see the connection between political theater and violent crime. If your implicit point is that I'm against big political money, because it comes from conservatives, then you're wrong. I think advertising of any sort for political campaigns should be outlawed. I hate it, and while, yes, I'm a pretty liberal thinker, my disdain for political ads transcends ideology. Deliberately lying on tax forms in a very public way, while the 'scandal' (and yes, it deserves quotes) in Congress is that the IRS is somehow the bad guy, only shows how corrupt the system is. If the IRS made a mistake it was in checking up on the little guys too much, and not enforcing laws on the big fish. Who gives a shit about some bumfuck tea party group in Arkansas? Organizations like GPS are stealing from all of us by being allowed to not pay taxes, whether their donors are secret or not. I don't really care about that.