Yeah, it's rich that they claim they cannot account for millions of dollars in expenses, while at the same time bringing down the hammer on average citizens who don't have documentation of every cent coming and going for the past seven years.
I think we become cynical and pessimistic because nothing of substance ever seems to change. The Tea Party is a phenomenon, able to put hundreds of thousands of people at a demonstration, and for what? They are the groundswell that alters the balance of power in Congress, and again for what? What substantive changes have ever been accomplished by putting the Republicans in power? We still have the IRS doing as it pleases, lording over the people of this country like some psychopathic medieval prince in Robin Hood.
At the end of it all, the system is out for itself. It's not really Democrat vs. Republican so much as Government vs. Citizen.