I am not sure which is more disturbing: that Chicago Congressman Weller set up a dummy nonprofit corporation that served his land acquisition interests (I believe in Nicaragua) or that the IRS let him. For many reasons Congressman Weller will not be returning to his long held Congressional seat but I am hoping the bullets fly both about the purpose of the nonprofit and how it gets to fly past the reasonably strict rules of the IRS.

At minimum, we begin with the reality that the nonprofit is all family members of Weller's. He didn't even try to hide potential personal benefits. And we go on from there.

But again, this is not just a story about a crooked Congressman who appears to know how to skirt the law; it's about a break in an important and usually very efficient and effective system (the IRS) that protects us all from ruses such as Weller's.

Please US Congress, we can dispatch Weller post haste. We need the IRS to perform at the highest standards to which we have become accustomed.