The short version of the IRS response will be “No, what are you going to do about it?”
The congress has given up their ability to influence the administration by agreeing to the omnibus budget bills.
By basically agreeing to "block grants" to operate the government, they have lost all of their leverage with individual agencies.
Issa needs to have the Sargeant at Arms handcuff and carry Koskinen to a jail cell for Contempt. He indeed has that power. Keep him and every other one of the obstructors in a jail cell. Again, the House DOES have that power.
Issa needs to lead the house to defund ginormous chunks of the IRS. The House indeed can do that.
With these tools at his disposal, he hasn’t any reason not to take action. Not doing so encourages the “nothing will happen, Issa is all bluff, the GOP is actually complicit” calls.
I know some pols read this board. This is why we want to primary so many incumbents. They don’t do what they can. They lie/pretend.
If that assertion is not correct and Issa/House do not actually have the aforementioned powers, then say so.
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.
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!