Posted on 07/11/2014 7:13:47 AM PDT by PoloSec
Texas Republican Rep. Steve Stockman filed a resolution calling for the arrest of former IRS official Lois Lerner over the Internal Revenue Service nonprofit targeting scandal Thursday.
Lerner, alongside the IRS, are under investigation for unfairly scrutinizing conservative nonprofits for tax-exempt status.
“Asking the Justice Department to prosecute Lois Lerner for admittedly illegal activity is a joke,” Stockman said. “The Obama administration will not prosecute the Obama administration. How much longer will the House allow itself to be mocked? It is up to this House to uphold the rule of law and hold accountable those who illegally targeted American citizens for simply having different ideas than the President.” (RELATED: Lerner Warned Colleagues In 2013: Congress Will Ask For Our Emails)
Stockman’s resolution instructs the House’s Sergeant at Arms — its chief law enforcement officer — to arrest Lerner on charges of contempt of Congress. The Sergeant at Arms is directed by the House speaker, currently Ohio Republican John Boehner.
The House voted to hold Lerner in contempt for refusing to testify before Congress in May by a vote of 231-187. (RELATED: Lerner Did Print Out ‘Some’ Emails, After All)
Congress does have the power to arrest individuals held in contempt — a fact recently referenced by the popular show “House of Cards,” when the Senate Sergeant at Arms was directed to arrest absent senators. The power is, however, used very rarely.
Stockman’s resolution accuses Lerner of “refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena duly issued by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, thereby obstructing the Congress in the lawful exercise of its constitutionally mandated legislative powers,” calling her behavior “an insult to the dignity of the House of Representatives [and] an attack upon the integrity of its proceedings, [which] works violence upon the rights of the House collectively, and therefore implicates the long-recognized inherent power of the House to punish and commit for contempt, privileged under the Constitution.”
If arrested, Lerner “shall enjoy no special privileges beyond those extended to her fellow inmates, shall not access any computer or telephone, and shall not be visited by anyone other than her counsel, clergy, physician, or family.”
Boehner is one of those limp wristed, prisses, who think it’s “just so cute” to shake another man’s hand, wet, right after he washes and purses his lips, while throwing the gay eye wink, barely turning his head left and right so you know he likes to play baseball and loves being a mitt....
Should a private citizen who lies before Congress and/or withholds records, destroys records, tells her staff to be careful what they say in emails because they may be subpoenaed, etc.... get away scott-free because the regime who appointed her does CYA on all their criminal thugs?
Why would it make a difference whether she was a private citizen, or whatever? If she’s committed a crime that obstructs the only justice the rest of us have any chance of getting, then I cannot think of it as a bad thing for her to get what she’s got coming. OTOH I DO think it is a bad thing for her to sit there grinning with her secure pension while she p!sses all over us, our representatives, and the rule of law.
It’s been a crazy-busy day. My window with an earlier response I was writing closed on me so I don’t know what I’ve said already or not, but maintaining the CHECKS and BALANCES is critical, and anytime ANY branch is “untouchable” we can be absolutely positively and in all other ways sure that they will overgrow themselves and trample the people, the Constitution, and the rule of law. When that happens, you fight fire with fire, because fire is the only thing strong enough to stop another fire.
It is blatantly obvious that the executive branch has outgrown its britches. It is “untouchable”, and we are seeing all the predictable outcomes because of that. Either we strengthen another branch to fight the executive branch, or we are screwed.
In this particular case, the Constitution ALREADY strengthened the House for this checking power, and the reason the executive has overgrown is because the House did not TAKE SERIOUSLY the need for that check. They LET the executive take over the whole bowel. (I sure hope I already posted the bowel-bacteria analogy, or that will sound really weird. lol)
Or she could catch cancer. A fast-spreading, inoperable, untreatable, invariably fatal cancer. The Powers That Be have ways to make these things “just happen.”
When we’re depressed and think there’s no point in trying, we need to just DO IT ANYWAY. A body at rest tends to stay at rest and a body in motion tends to stay in motion. That’s why depression/demoralization is a vicious circle. You don’t feel like doing anything so you don’t do anything so you don’t feel like doing anything...
Faith is believing in what is unseen at the time. Farmers (like my dad and brothers) live by faith every day of their lives. Those dead seeds and cold ground make it seem a waste of time to get out of the warm house and go into the muddy mess, and the seeds if they do come up may get hailed on, may be killed by draught, may cost too much to harvest because of EPA rules and taxes, etc.... It would be very easy to say nothing will ever come of all the work. The Bible says we will see a harvest - if we don’t give up.
None of us FEELS like our efforts will be successful. Obama and his thugs and minions are very, very good at one thing: killing, stealing, and destroying, all to make us give up. It is the devil’s work, after all. We have been targeted just as surely as if a tazer was used on us to stop us. It is no wonder we all feel this way.
But if we just keep putting one foot in front of another, eventually our feelings will catch up to our faith. In “Princess Bride” Inigo Montoya thinks he’s dying, stabbed in the gut by Count Rugen. When Rugen calls him pathetic and tries to give him the fatal stab, Inigo instinctively puts out his sword to stop it. No energy, just sheer instinct. And it repeats. But as he brandishes his sword Inigo begins to forget his wound, his tiredness, and his failure - and remembers what he was living the last decades of his life for.
The chances of Lerner actually being placed in jail are as great as our faithfulness in putting one foot in front of another and planting seeds when the dirt is cold. It is not Lerner who is on trial. It is not Obama. It is we who are on trial. God is finding out what we are made of. This country is ours for the taking - if we will. If we won’t, we have nobody to blame but ourselves. Not the clueless people with their EBT cards, because they don’t know any better. Us.
If we step out in faith, God will take us the rest of the way we need to go. I’ve already seen it happen. And just today I saw another answer to a very specific prayer I prayed, pleading for help. There is no way anybody can convince me that we are alone in this battle. I’ve seen far too much of God’s amazing power and wisdom to believe that for a second - except when I’m tired and forget to look up.
Let’s all look up, and keep putting one foot in front of the other, ESPECIALLY when we think it will get us nowhere.
And 1934 is right about the time that the communist trap was first laid. We are seeing the fruit of that “crisis” that FDR didn’t “let go to waste”... Is it coincidence that this happened when one branch forsook its role of being a check and balance to all the other parts of government?
It's not something new. Persons charged with contempt of Congress have been arrested on order of Congress in the past!
I know.... more’s the shame
Unless he chokes to death on one of his cigarettes, there is roughly a zero % chance that anyone other than Boehner will be Speaker next year. Rat chances for majority are nihilistic. The most realistic scenario for a Boehner resignation would be a 1998 scenario, where the GOP surprisingly lost seats, that is not something any rational person hopes for.
This fixation with removing the GOP leadership is not productive, the next leaders will compromise and lose popularity here as well, McConnell was very well liked here at one time. The leadership reflects the conference, the best thing to make the leadership compromise less is to elect as many Republicans as possible. The smaller the majority, the worse it is.
Bravo. Many of your comments should be on your blog. Copy and save them, edit if need be.
Well-said.
My daughter pulled me aside just a little bit ago. She was wanting some assurance that she wouldn’t fall away from the faith. Asked if we could have Bible study and not just the family devotions. So we got out our Bibles and we read some of the promises - how nothing can separate us from His love, and how there is no condemnation for us. How He who began a good work in us is able to bring it to completion at the day of our Lord Jesus Christ...
It always comes back to Him. We can afford to have faith, no matter how things seem to our own eyes, because He is good. Just like you said.
I am so sorry if it sounded like I was saying your faith is weak. I feel so much tiredness in and around me, on the board here, and in people going about their tasks. We do hope. But we’re also tired. Faith keeps us hanging on, though, and God uses tired people too. We’ll keep doing what we can, hoping for the best (as you said), and wait and see what God does with our loaves and fishes. =)
So what happened to the Resolution to impeach Holder?
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hres411/text
Just because a Congressman submits a resolution doesn’t mean anything will be done with it.
What happened to the resolution to impeach President Bush?
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/hres1258/text
>> Just because a Congressman submits a resolution...
Yeah no kidding. That doesn’t mean you don’t push for something.
But it does mean that Speaker Boehner will decide what happens to the resolution - tabled, sent to committee or put to vote.
But doesn’t Lois Lerner have to be within the vicinity of the Capitol in order to be arrested by the Sargeant in Arms? I think that’s the ONLY way she can be arrested, if I’m not mistaken.
This resolution says wherever her body is found.
Actually we act as if we are victims.... that’s how the other side wants us to be, powerless.
Exactly. At some point a person has to take responsibility. Who knows what the outcome may be, but at some point we have to decide to live free or else acknowledge that we have willingly accepted the chains. Nobody else makes that decision for us; it is our OWN decision.
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