Dem Congressman compares IRS practices to Communist China (video)

Conservative Intel ^ | 5/22/13 | David Freddoso

[The Old Hoosier]

Early in this morning’s IRS hearing, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., warned against turning the IRS hearings into a partisan affair.

Immediately afterward, Rep. Steve Lynch, D-Mass., obliged him, delivering one of the most scathing speeches about the agency in the entire hearing...comparing the IRS’s treatment of conservative non-profit applicants to the behavior of foreign regimes notorious for their human rights abuses...

[fortheDeclaration]

The Democrat gave a very excellent statement!

[Ronald_Magnus]

Wow. I wonder if we’ll be hearing of Mr. Lynch’s untimely demise?

[yldstrk]

good! everyone folking hates the infernal revenue service anyway and we would be happy to watch them come unraveled

[American Constitutionalist]

" Early in this morning’s IRS hearing, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., warned against turning the IRS hearings into a partisan affair. "

You don't say ? Rep. Cummings ? put on your thinking cap for a minute and think this one through, let's spell it out for you to make it more easy.

C-O-N-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-V-E G-R-O-U-P-S W-E-R-E S-P-E-C-I-F-I-C-A-L-L-Y T-A-R-G-E-T-E-D B-Y T-H-E I-R-S I-N T-H-I-S L-A-T-E-S-T S-C-A-N-D-A-L .

How ? can it not be not, but partisan ?

[wny]

It’s the demholes turning it into a “partisan” affair. It’s an outrage and everyone should be demanding to get answers. But the demholes will circle the wagons around the WH puke.

[central_va]

The f-ing Yankee actually makes sense. If you can stand the uppity Harvard accent....

[tomkat]

Don't know anything else about this Lynch guy, but I give him big props for that statement.

He was either flat out sincere, or deserving of an Oscar.

[Psiman]

That accent is not Harvard but South Boston - huge difference. He did spend a little time at the Kennedy School, a dumping ground for crooked political operators, but he made his bones as a thug for the ironworker’s union.

[central_va]

Said the IRS violated human rights, ouch!

[Cyclone59]

It’s the demholes turning it into a “partisan” affair. It’s an outrage and everyone should be demanding to get answers. But the demholes will circle the wagons around the WH puke.

As much as I am going to get flammed for this comment:
The right should do the same thing for other republicans in times of need. The dems do it so well and we are left scratching where our balls used to be, wondering how we lost yet another election.

The RNC needs new YOUNG leadership that knows how to play some dirty hardball with these a-holes. That two bit idiot we have in there now has been given the ball but doesn’t appear to know that he is supposed to run with the damn thing.

[stormhill]

Dem Congressman compares IRS practices to Communist China

Wait, I think he might have meant that as a compliment...

[Fred Hayek]

Compares the actions of the IRS (and perhaps indirectly Just Us and DHS) with those of communist dictatorships? Sound like a Dem from 50 years ago (when most Dems did not hate our country).

[rsobin]

Whats the big deal about the IRS thingy. it’s just another form of affirmative action or admissions bias. Everybody just needs to chill.

[Rocky]

Well, he can expect to be audited by the IRS and have his phone records searched by DOJ.

[LongWayHome]

He’s a pro-life Massachusetts democrat who voted againt Obamacare. A rare bird indeed.

[SunkenCiv]

Nice try. Sound bytes, followed by a vote along party lines.

If the Congress doesn’t act, that’s an act of war.

Thanks The Old Hoosier.

[prairiebreeze]

Well....I’ll be durned......I didn’t think there were any of them any more.

[campaignPete R-CT]

on the topic of Mass Dems:
Markey’s US House seat likely will be vacant, creating an October DEM primary. All 5 DEM candidates are 100% NARAL, 100% Gay Marriage.

Will Brownsberger, Katherine Clark, Peter Koutoujian, Carl Sciortino, Karen Spilka
If there were a 6th candidate (a pro-family DEM), the primary is WINNABLE. Are there no opportunists?

The seat is unwinnable by the GOP in the general. In my assessment. I believe Scott Brown was handily defeated in this part of the state in both 2010 and 2012. The district sprawls thru the Boston suburbs (the progressive heartland). So it is nothing like Lynch’s district.

Mike, there has to be somebody who wouldn’t mind being the congressman, somebody who isn’t part of the Mass-Equality NARAL crowd. (there were plenty of DEMS in the state house who voted no on the gay marriage bit a decade ago.)

[x]

Markey's a real beneficiary of seniority. There are Republican areas just outside his district, but not inside it.

It looks like all of the towns in his district went for Obama in 2012, and (with one exception) for Warren. Brown carried an additional town in the district in 2010 and the vote was closer.

Markey's district is upscale liberal. Lynch's district is more working-class, so you can get a more socially conservative Democrat elected there. That's not the case in Markey's. So it's likely that one of the more liberal candidates will win.