Yeah, and American's will think it's "clean and articulate" 0bama who caused all of this destruction....
Posted on 09/22/2014 5:27:09 AM PDT by upchuck
Employers won’t hire her. She’s been berated with epithets like “dirty Jew.” Federal agents have guarded her house because of death threats. And she’s spent hundreds of thousands of dollars defending herself against accusations she orchestrated a coverup in a scandal that has come to represent everything Americans hate about the IRS.
Lois Lerner is toxic — and she knows it. But she refuses to recede into anonymity or beg for forgiveness for her role in the IRS tea party-targeting scandal. “I didn’t do anything wrong,” Lerner said in her first press interview since the scandal broke 16 months ago. “I’m proud of my career and the job I did for this country.”
Lerner, who sat down with POLITICO in an exclusive two-hour session, has been painted in one dimension: as a powerful bureaucrat scheming with the Obama administration to cripple right-leaning nonprofits. Interviews with about 20 of her colleagues, friends and critics and a survey of emails and other IRS documents, however, reveal a much more complicated figure than the caricature she’s become in the public eye.
The portrait that emerges shows Lerner is, indeed, fierce, unapologetic and perhaps even tone-deaf when she says things that show her Democratic leanings. She had a quick temper and may have intimidated co-workers who could have helped her out of this mess. It’s easy to see how Republicans have seized on the image of a devilish figure cracking down on conservative nonprofits.
“We followed the trail where it leads, and we saw it lead to Lois Lerner,” House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said at a hearing Thursday. “She refers with disdain to conservatives; she’s an active liberal; and it’s clear her actions were set out to be detrimental to conservatives.”
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Mega dittos on that one. She needs to be in jail is right.
Dude looks like a lady.
Under the jail!!
If she was in jail where she should be, she wouldn’t need a job.
They said the same thing on Fox & Friends this morning. I’m sure many would like to get $100k when they retired. That said, I wouldn’t want to have to pay for her attorney bills (if she actually has to pay for them - wouldn’t surprise me if Soros or another Democrat-funded entity or person is picking them up).
Orchestrated a cover ups come from the top bet they bail her out she knows to much or she will visit Vince Foster?.
I thought she retired with a nice cozy six-figure pension. Are we supposed to feel sorry for her?
Quote; “She’s been berated with epithets like “dirty Jew.”
Wait a minute, I thought only those who supported Israel were berated in such a way.
Of course employers don’t want her . . . she has a bad reputation for frying the circuitry of every computer she has ever touched . . . employers would not be able to afford her!
If the US had a Devil’s Island, that is where LL should be sent. Her actions directly countermanded democracy and freedom. LL no longer deserves the right to call herself an American...
She’s no longer pleading the fifth?
I got a $20 that says IF someone called her a “dirty jew” (which I doubt), it came from a Liberal.
That being said, she’s lucky I will never be within shouting distance of her.
The Congress had the opportunity to can holder too. But they didn’t. And I don’t wonder why.
“She, and her cohorts, should be in jail.”
Yes. And her punishment should include having to listen to looped tapes of Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, Shillary Clinton, and Elizabeth Fauxahontas Warren speeches 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
She seems surprised that anyone would dare to criticize her or hold her responsible for the crimes she committed.
That, in a nut shell, is the type of people Democrats surround themselves with.
Fake slurs was my guess also. It may be antisemitic liberals mad at her for making their corrupt petty tyrant look like a corrupt petty tyrant, but it’s not a conservative, and it’s probably no one at all.
SHE’S the victim??? WTF? What’s next from Politico? ... The hardships of being an ISIS member...
Lol....Spot on! Heck, Polutico probably received Lyin’ Lois’ *silence breaking* “interview” (questions AND answers) directly from ValJar/0bola admin.
Yeah, and American's will think it's "clean and articulate" 0bama who caused all of this destruction....
33 years in government, 63 years old and a wealthy 1%er --- yet, we are supposed to believe that she is out looking for a job!
“Under both Republican and Democratic administrations, she got these amazing ratings and bonuses. … And once she retired, she would have gone out with bells and whistles, and the IRS commissioner would have made a speech. … It went from that to: You’re under criminal investigation, and your career is ruined, in a week,” said Lerner’s husband, Michael Miles, who sat to her right during the interview.
A bonus or award in the beltway means nothing except that some strings have been pulled, or bribes have been made. These people have friends give them awards whenever they get bored with life and need a banquet for themselves.
Lerner, for her part, assumes she is at the center of the storm because “I was the person who announced it. I assume the other part of it is because I declined to talk, and once I declined to talk, they could say anything they wanted, and they knew I couldn’t say anything back.”
The "announcement" was orchestrated to provide cover because they knew the targeting was about to be mentioned in the media. And of course what her Politico admirers don't mention in their puff piece is that her targeting of conservative groups and individuals for discrimination and government harassment goes all the way back to her time at the Federal Elections Commission.
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