Posted on 04/22/2014 4:34:39 PM PDT by smoothsailing
April 22, 2014
Ernest Istook
On its own, Congress has clear authority to arrest and jail Lois Lerner until she testifies. That is the best way to end the stonewalling about the IRS‘ targeting of the Tea Party and other conservatives.
There is no better option.
Nobody expects Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute Ms. Lerner. His hyper-political Justice Department’s “investigation” of the IRS scandal is an obvious sham.
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Expecting either the attorney general or a court to be the enforcer against Ms. Lerner would show the House commitment to accountability is soft. The House can and should use its own power to arrest and confine her, just as courts commonly do with other witnesses to compel testimony.
The mainstream media ignore the ongoing IRS scandal rather than digging for new disclosures. The president proclaims there is “not a smidgen of corruption” involving the IRS. It would be fascinating to learn how testimony from Lerner could change Obama’s bragging.
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Great idea. But why stop with Lois? Arrest Obama and Holder while you’re at it.
So just how is Congress going to get Ms. Lerner to testify, beat it out of her? She won’t talk period. I know from firsthand experience that IRS employees, especially managers, think they can do ANYTHING, because NO LAWS apply to them. They ARE the law (in their minds)
Put her in jail.
Or at least the latter.
And the IRS has a SWAT team to protect Ms. Lerner.
Let her rot in jail. Make a plea deal if she spills the beans and implicates the white house. Then impeach the bastard.
You got it!
Boehner is a Democrat, a corrupt Democrat. But I repeat myself.
Show her Karl Rove videos until she cracks.
It would need the consent of Boehner to do this. Either the House or Senate has the power to arrest for contempt and other matters. See the trial of Sam Houston in the House for a physical attack on a sitting Congressman. There is a jail in the Capitol, but no person may be held absent a vote of the entire body and then only as long as the Congressional Session. She would be released on 12/31.
Trash, and not even first class trash at that.
That’s exactly what the House should do but Boehner hasn’t got the guts to do it.
Zero will never let it get to that point. I fully expect him to issue executive pardons for both of these a$$clowns.
The incoming House is all but certain to remain in Republican hands, adding at least two additional years to Lerner's confinement. Actually, I don't see her holding out that long. I think she'd start singing within days of being locked up.
This is absolutely correct but we have quivering ganglia republicrats wavering!! That is why MILLIONS of former “republicans” are now “INDEPENDENT” . Republicrats like bush boner christie rubio — SUCK!!
Can’t pardon unless there is a conviction
They can. But they wont. The democrats and the liberal media will go into propaganda overdrive, circling the wagons around her “big bad republicans jailing poor innocent women!”) and making the republicans waste their political capitol on this instead of on the upcoming 2014 elections.
Brother Jaz, I think you’re right, unfortunately.
This whole “war on women” nonsense is the weapon Obama is using to spook Boehner and keep him from using the inherent power of Congress.
But won’t it be grand if we are both pleasantly surprised! ;-)
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