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House Republicans Considering Impeachment of IRS Head over Stonewalling in Lois Lerner Investigation
National Review ^ | June 24, 2015 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 06/25/2015 9:45:24 AM PDT by Zakeet

Agency destroyed e-mails after telling Congress they couldn’t be found.

House Republicans investigating the IRS’s targeting of tea-party groups are seriously considering an effort to impeach IRS commissioner John Koskinen or other agency employees for “culpable misdemeanors” pertaining to the destruction of e-mails written by Lois Lerner, the former official at the heart of the scandal.

“We’ve briefed the leadership’s counsel, and I think that they’re open to it, but it’s the type of thing where this town is like, ‘oh, that’s not how we do things, it’s not really been used lately,’” a Republican member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee says. “But, quite frankly, we really haven’t had executive branch officials behave this way like we do now.”

Lawmakers have been privately mulling the unconventional tactic for months, in part due to frustration that cutting the agency’s budget and holding Lerner in contempt of Congress failed to speed up the glacial pace at which the agency has produced documents requested by the committee.


‘If you have a situation where it’s fine for people to come misrepresent the facts, not produce documents, and just do that with impunity, then why are we even conducting oversight?’

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: house; impeachment; impeachnow; irs; lerner; loislerner
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... should be impeached and thrown in prison ...

1 posted on 06/25/2015 9:45:24 AM PDT by Zakeet
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But Speake Bonehead has no balls and is King Obummer’s butt boy, nothing will happen.


2 posted on 06/25/2015 9:48:27 AM PDT by Bobby_Taxpayer
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To: Zakeet

Blah...blah...blah!

The house republicans are a minority wing of the RAT Party.


3 posted on 06/25/2015 9:49:33 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dreyfus)
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That last revelation that yes, they knowingly deleted the files containing the missing emails and what are you gonna do about it? - that one took us into territory where they no longer even have to pretend to obey the law, not even for public appearances. This isn't much different from their private actions to date but at least the mask is off for all to see.

Will they impeach him? Nope. They'll huff and puff and look earnest and important and concerned and outraged, and he won't even have to apologize for the thing to be dropped. If I had to single out one thing that is the most corrosive and dangerous action taken by either of the 0bama administrations, it wouldn't be 0bamacare, it would be the open transformation of the IRS into a tool of partisan political control.

4 posted on 06/25/2015 9:53:55 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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House Republicans Considering Impeachment of IRS Head

And they really, really, really, really mean it this time.

5 posted on 06/25/2015 9:54:02 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Pray. It's the last arrow in the quiver.)
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To: Zakeet

There is a better chance of them snorting cocaine off of the backs of drag queen hookers on the House floor than that.


6 posted on 06/25/2015 9:57:10 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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“House Republicans Considering Impeachment of IRS Head over Stonewalling in Lois Lerner Investigation”

Yeah sure just like Trey Gowdy said he’d get to the bottom of Benghazi and hold Hillary accountable. BS! BS!


7 posted on 06/25/2015 10:01:23 AM PDT by kenmcg
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To: Zakeet

Yeah right.


8 posted on 06/25/2015 10:01:55 AM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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> There is a better chance of them snorting cocaine off of the backs of drag queen hookers on the House floor than that.

Barney Frank got re-elected?


9 posted on 06/25/2015 10:01:59 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

These elected Republicans are a joke.

Impeach anybody? That’s just for the hicks back home, like you.

If we do not elect a true conservative President in 2016, it will be time to plan on how to live in a radical, leftwing, anti-Christian country.


10 posted on 06/25/2015 10:02:25 AM PDT by Oak Grove
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To: glorgau

Today he could be president.


11 posted on 06/25/2015 10:05:29 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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"should be impeached and thrown in prison ... "

Well, I have a better suggestion ...

Then, after a month or so, "thrown in prison."

12 posted on 06/25/2015 10:06:38 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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To: Zakeet

Agreed, Foreskinnin should wait for death in a 6x9 graybar, but with our self-compromised 0bama-fellating Republitards fumbledicking the show, it’s gonna be another episode of Kabuki Masturbatory Exercise Theater™.


13 posted on 06/25/2015 10:07:52 AM PDT by W. (Animals are much stupider since Noah's Ark, because of inbreeding.--Oglaf)
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To: Zakeet

The Crier will never let it happen


14 posted on 06/25/2015 10:10:02 AM PDT by TYVets
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Talk, more talk, do nothing......Been there done that.


15 posted on 06/25/2015 10:10:39 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Scooter Libby spent 3 years in federal prison for giving a mistaken date to the FBI in his testimony in the Valerie Plame hoax. This albino lizard from the IRS should spend at least 10 years in the jug for blatantly lying to Congress with that serpentine smile on his mug.


16 posted on 06/25/2015 10:17:00 AM PDT by txrefugee
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Said solons then immediately castigated for using a banned variation of the obviously Confederate-influenced name/term ‘Stonewall’


17 posted on 06/25/2015 10:17:09 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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To: Zakeet

Oh, they’re “considering” it? Again? Still?


18 posted on 06/25/2015 10:18:09 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Zakeet

GOP Impeachment = Obama’s Redline = Iran Nuke Deadline


19 posted on 06/25/2015 10:19:37 AM PDT by vmivol00 (I won't be reconstructed.)
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To: Oak Grove
If we do not elect a true conservative President in 2016, it will be time to plan on how to live in a radical, leftwing, anti-Christian country.
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I think we are well beyond the planning stage.

20 posted on 06/25/2015 10:19:37 AM PDT by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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