Posted on 05/15/2013 10:24:19 AM PDT by RummyChick
Sen. Carl Levin (D., Mich.) repeatedly pressed the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the tax-exempt status of specific conservative nonprofit organizations in letters to then-IRS commissioner Doug Shulman and director Lois Lerner in 2012.
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So, is that incorrect influence an impeachable offense? Will the GOP grow a pair and actually go after and impeach Senators?
Reckun he rotted in office, place stinks to high heaven,, all these elderly solons, out of touch but not afraid to ignore reality. They are the problem.
People have known Levin to be a sniveling little commie for years and years. There’s no news in this.
Joe Stalin hissef’ could make Levin look ‘moderate’
How about retiring to prison?
He’s retiring next year anyway.
Hang him!
He is a fascist. In a sane country he would be in jail.
There's some category of taxation ~ possibly federal income tax ~ that Romney escaped in that period. Just guessing it might have been federal tax exempt municipal bonds. But then, as the economy continued to sink in 2009/2010 and more and more cities and counties looked like they'd fail to pay on those bonds, he dumped them and went into other investments, albeit investments where he did pay taxes!
Only IRS would know ~ fur shur Romney didn't have the same tax accountant over the entire period so even that guy or gal wouldn't know either. Pretty limited audience on this one!
Not that Romney did anything wrong, but the class warriors on both sides of the political chasm like to dump on people who don't pay federal income taxes no matter how lawful and reasonable such nonpayment might be.
Note, for the record, in my opinion the federal income tax is another failed government program. It was supposed to pay the bills and it doesn't. Now they're taxing my blood sugar measurement tabs ~ and that's clearly the desperate measure of a bankrupt system. Time to repeal the 16th and turn to something else ~ maybe an export tax!
What? Senators are elected, not appointed. They are not employees but officers. There are only a couple of ways to get rid of them ~ death(many hang around so long they die in office), or they get beat in a primary. A few retire ~ and most of those guys have taken leave of their senses long ago ~ their staff people run the office and tell them how to vote.
Drip, Drip, Drip...
Sen Max Bacus was also a player in the investigate your opposition sweepstakes.
He said he was retiring over Obama care frustrations
Perhaps there is a bit more to the story - especially since the IRS seems to a nexus for Obama Care scandal and the Punishing and Intimidating your opposition and people who dare criticize the regime scandals.
Yep, Senator Lennin.
Mentioning Soros. Here’s a comprehensive article! RICO?????
No matter what he does, John McCain, Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell, Orin Hatch, Susan Collins and the other RINO Senators will still call him “my good friend Carl”. After all, the Senate is a club and loyalty to fellow members comes before loyalty to constituents or the Constitution if you are a Republican. For Democrats, loyalty to socialist ideology comes first and the party comes second.
Senators can also be impeached, then tried, possibly removed from office .... and also ... prevented from ever holding another federal office.
Article II of the United States Constitution (Section 4) states that “The President, Vice President, and all civil Officers (Senators) of the United States shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
William Blout (Senator from Tenn and signer of the Constitution) was impeached but the charges dismissed after being expelled from the Senate in 1797.
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
You'll want to read ~ http://www.senate.gov/CRSReports/crs-publish.cfm?pid='0E%2C*PL%5B%3A%230%20%20%0A ~ as well.
While theoretically possible for the House to 'impeach' a Senator, the Senate would conduct any trial. In reality both houses are the sole judges of who may be a member of their respective house. If it didn't occur already to the Senate to remove a Senator for cause, it's unlike the Senate will ever pay much attention to a House attempt to remove one of them.
I seriously doubt Harry Reid would even bother having the clerks file such a bill coming over from the House.
As Ben Franklin said, assassination was the traditional way to remove the head of state but he preferred impeachment. At the same time neither Franklin nor any other of the Founders writing the core of the Constitution thought we would ever have anyone in office other than someone chosen by the best people, of wealth and power, and property.
By 1800, 10 years after its adoption, Thomas Jefferson fooled them all!
Waste of time to impeach Levin. He’s retiring and has plenty of friends to help him drag it out till he’s out of office.
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