At Thursday’s House hearing, Faris Fink, the Commissioner of the Small Business and Self-Employed Division who is now on administrative leave, will no doubt be grilled about his department’s mission to explore strange new $1,500-a-night hotel rooms and seek out new happiness experts. Fink will also most likely be asked to produce the receipts.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa took to Twitter Wednesday to remind everyone what Fink was doing while wasteful spending that he should have objected to as highly illogical was taking place:
So where exactly was the head of the #IRS division while all this conference spending was going on? ANSWER –> http://t.co/K4TwUHNYiW
— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) June 5, 2013
How will Fink greet the committee? Place your bets:
Just a guess: When Faris Fink of #IRS (Spock in the agency's Star Trek parody) gets sworn in by Issa, he won't be giving a Vulcan salute.
— Richard Rubin (@RichardRubinDC) June 4, 2013
We also certainly won’t be hearing Fink say “live long and prosper.”
Another Twitter user tries to come to grips with the surreal:
Wait. An #IRS employee named FARIS FINK played Spock in that Star Trek video?
— Michele Frost (@michelelfrost) June 4, 2013
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But we would be remiss if we didn’t also pass along the obligatory “Bush’s fault” tweet:
George W. Bush appointed Faris Fink. Why are you suddenly so interested in him all these years later? @DarrellIssa
— JBCinRSF (@JBCinRSF) June 5, 2013
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