Posted on 06/23/2014 6:42:24 AM PDT by don-o
But just watching this IRS guy laugh in the faces of law abiding Americans makes us hate ISSA and the non-doers as much as it makes us hate Koskinen.
DO SOMETHING ISSA. DO SOMETHING HOUSE.
This is just sound and fury for the GOP base. Nothing more. The GOP doesn’t intend to actually do anything substantive about the IRS assaults. The Dems know that and rub this in conservatives faces.
The kenyan has made numerous false statements about the IRS scandal and Boehner never says a word about the lies.
Perhaps a good antidote would be to post situations or scenarios where “something has happened”... That will cheer everyone up!
Congress went after Roger Clemens and caused him to spend piles of money to be represented. He was charged with all kinds of “crimes” and their media ran lots of stories on that “trial”.
How come they can’t Clemens the IRS?
priorities
In a showdown, the one who blinks first is the loser. The House leadership knows it is weak and will blink first so they don’t even try.
There is no real showdown here. The GOP is divided. Blue state GOPers have no interest in engaging the kenyan. Same goes for tip toe to the election RINOs. All that leaves is the conservative wing. We saw with McCarthy’s election how much power they have.
So we see here a little kabuki theater before the election so the GOP leadership can say “See we are fighting Obama on the IRS”. The vast majority of the GOP simply do not care we were assaulted by the IRS.
I get that. I do wish we could.
I prefer to live with the optimism of Reagan instead of the knee jerk defeatism that I see all day, every day.
That’s why they have this moronic attention on a hard drive.
It shows how stupid they think we are.
“Issa needs to lead the house to defund ginormous chunks of the IRS. The House indeed can do that.”
The only way to do that is in the budget, and that would have to pass the Senate too. That wouldn’t happen and you are right back to the media screaming that Republicans are shutting down the government again.
Never would they explain why, the public would never hear anything but Republicans want to deny SS to the elderly and starve women and children.
We first have to take the Senate, then it would be Owebama that was shutting everything down, because he refused to sign the budget.
The Senate and the president are all too willing to use their ultimate weapons.
Nuclear option? That is the way it used to be until the past 25 years or so.
That seems to be the stand of everyone in this administration. It is way past time to put people in jail. And I do not mean Club Fed jails. I mean the places the put G. Gordon Liddy. I would love to see Lois Lerner in Jessup. Either start at the bottom or the top, makes no difference to me. Start at the bottom - get these lower-level worker-bees to wear the orange jumpsuits - they’ll start singing!
I happen to agree with that! But we hear so often "just wait until x, then we'll do it" and that plays to the defeatism IMO.
But they COULD jail koskinen et al for Inherent Contempt. If they're not going to do that, they need to know that it makes the base just as angry at Issa and the House incumbents as it makes us at Koskinen/Lerner et al when they let the criminals laugh in our faces.
I think maybe they are of the mind that the meaningless bluster helps them with the base.
‘Woodward and Bernstein on IRS scandal: Neither press nor Democrats doing enough to get answers’
In this exchange on CNN, storied journalists Woodward and Bernstein say the press isn’t doing enough to get the real story, and neither are Democrats, who are just stonewalling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NVMUgzSu10
Update: J.E. Dyer has lots more about Sonasoft at Liberty Unyielding:
Whatever Sonasoft’s obligations after the contract was terminated, it’s clear that the company had a relevant contractual obligation to the IRS at the time of the supposed email loss. There seems to be no question that Sonasoft’s knowledge of the email “catastrophe” needs to be investigated.
But there’s more to this drama – and it’s (go figure) political. Sonasoft is a small company, founded and run in Silicon Valley by a Mr. Nand (Andy) Khanna. It isn’t clear whether Andy Khanna is any relation to Rohit (Ro) Khanna, a Pennsylvania-born attorney who served as an Obama appointee in the U.S. Department of Commerce, and is now a Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives in the 17th district of California (in Silicon Valley). But what is clear is that the two other members of Sonasoft’s board of directors – the members other than Andy Khanna – are both working hard to get Ro Khanna elected.
Here are the players. On the Sonasoft board of directors, Dr. Romesh K. Japra, M.D., is the chairman of the board. The board director is Mr. Romi Randhawa, whose day job is president and CEO of HPM Networks, another Silicon Valley IT company.
And then there’s Ro Khanna. Khanna has connections to Obama that go way back, to Obama’s first run for the Illinois state senate, when Khanna was at the University of Chicago as an undergrad. Will Burns, a Chicago Democratic political operative, recruited Khanna to walk precincts with Obama during the campaign, and Khanna was reportedly star-struck …
Omnibus bills have become more popular since the 1980s because "party and committee leaders can package or bury controversial provisions in one massive bill to be voted up or down.
It is much easier to hide pork and special interest payoffs.
Omnibus bills is also the best way to hide graft and corruption.
Koskinen and Carville...separated at birth??
Issa is dreaming. Not gonna happen.
The real problem the Republican House has is that they allowed Obama to disregard his oath of office “the first time”. Allowing him, even one time, to get away with violation of the Constitution has now made it impossible to stop him on all the following violations. Obama thinks he is fireproof. He has good reason to think that.
I would assume holding these hearings has an “end game”. What would that be? What do they intend to do?
“But they COULD jail koskinen et al for Inherent Contempt.”
Since he wasn’t even at the IRS at the time this happened, that would be bad PR, IMO.
They could/should bring Lerner back in and jail that Bitoch for refusing to answer questions.
She gave up her right to claim the 5th when she made her ‘not-guilty’ speech. Let her sit in a small cell eating Mooch’s ‘healthy lunch’ until next Jan!
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