If the fiscal cliff fiasco has taught us anything, it is that our elected officials no longer even pretend to place the needs of the nation ahead of their own to quote Mel Brooks phony baloney jobs.

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In the end, we got us a fairly simple case of Tomsha-Miguel writing a phony-baloney letter from a make-believe congressional aide to herself, and then sending this fantasy correspondence to her unsuspecting client in a oddball attempt to convince him that she had resolved the IRS problem.

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