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Democrat Accidentally Makes True Statement in IRS Scandal Hearing (Norton)
PJ Media ^ | July 18, 2013 | Bryan Preston

Posted on 07/18/2013 1:33:36 PM PDT by jazusamo

During today’s IRS hearing before the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) took a detour that she may regret. Holmes Norton lauded the IRS officials who were testifying before the committee, which at that point were Carter Hull and Elizabeth Hofacre.

Hull and Hofacre are among the IRS agents who were involved in scrutinizing Tea Party and conservative groups. Both testified that they were acting on orders from their superiors in Washington.

Hofacre worked in the Cincinnati office that IRS Washington official Lois Lerner blamed for the abuse. Lerner broke the story in a conference call in May, while blaming “rogue employees.” Hofacre would have been one of those so-called “rogue employees,” as would Hull. Lerner had blamed them, without directly naming them, for the abuse.

Hofacre testified before the committee that Lerner’s statement hit her and her office like a “nuclear strike.” It was devastating, because the IRS officials in Cincinnati have said all along that they were only doing what their superiors in Washington were telling them to do.

During her inquiry time, after lauding Hull and Hofacre, Norton said, “I don’t see any rogue employees.” She said that she saw before her American civil servants who were just doing their job.

That is pretty much the point that the Tea Party groups and the Republicans on the committee have been making all along. The Cincinnati IRS office had not gone rogue, but was acting under orders from Washington. Hull’s testimony put the blame squarely in the office of the IRS chief counsel, William Wilkins.

Norton, accidentally, agreed with that assessment.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: benghazi; corruption; eleanorholmesnorton; fastandfurious; gettherope; impeachnow; irs; irsscandalhearing; loislerner; norton; teaparty
Norton must be horrified she actually got something right even though unintentional, she and Waters seem to be in competition for most inept in the House.
1 posted on 07/18/2013 1:33:36 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Sheila Jackson Lee: “ Mr. President, I rise in opposition to the 4th amendment to the Constitution!


2 posted on 07/18/2013 1:37:38 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

LOL! I should have included Lee too.


3 posted on 07/18/2013 1:41:52 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

Bump this one, Holmes just gave away the truth, WHAT was she thinking?


4 posted on 07/18/2013 1:42:11 PM PDT by kitkat (STORM THE HEAVENS WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY)
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To: jazusamo

These socialists approve of denying Conservatives civil rights protections while whining about civil rights. Real bigots are on the left.


5 posted on 07/18/2013 1:42:15 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: jazusamo

irs did what it was told, by the present corrupt administration.


6 posted on 07/18/2013 1:42:39 PM PDT by I want the USA back (If I Pi$$ed off just one liberal today my mission has been accomplished.)
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To: jazusamo

Consider her background.


7 posted on 07/18/2013 1:48:15 PM PDT by ncfool (Obama's aMeriKa 2012 The land of entitlement for the 51% crowd.)
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To: jazusamo

I’m sure she’ll correct her “error” as soon as one of her colleagues points it out to her. Can’t expect our “leaders” to actually pay attention to what they say all the time, can we?


8 posted on 07/18/2013 1:49:27 PM PDT by trad_anglican
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Please bump the Freepathon or click above and donate or become a monthly donor!

9 posted on 07/18/2013 1:49:35 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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Another one of these people blindly returned to the House again, and again, and again, by constituents who vote for skin color alone.


10 posted on 07/18/2013 1:50:07 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: jazusamo

In a contest for stupid, Congresswoman Gwen Moore, WI-4th District (Milwaukee) is hard to beat.

http://gwenmoore.house.gov/


11 posted on 07/18/2013 2:00:37 PM PDT by RicocheT (Where neither their property nor their honor is touched, most men live content, Niccolo Machiavelli)
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To: jazusamo
"Norton, you idiot!"


12 posted on 07/18/2013 2:05:42 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jazusamo

Sometimes you have to say it to find out what you said.


13 posted on 07/18/2013 2:19:02 PM PDT by printhead (Standard & Poor - Poor is the new standard.)
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To: jazusamo

I’ve seen compost heaps with more brains than Norton and Waters have combined.


14 posted on 07/18/2013 2:19:56 PM PDT by Bullish
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To: jazusamo

She said it before she said she didn’t say it.

IBTCD (In before the categorical denial.)


15 posted on 07/18/2013 2:54:01 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: Albion Wilde
It wouldn't surprise me if she just ignores it, at least publicly, it shows her to be the uninformed idiot that she is.
16 posted on 07/18/2013 2:59:26 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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To: printhead

“Sometimes you have to say it to find out what you said.”

Paraphrasing William Buckley, “I won’t insult you by suggesting that you actually believe what you just said.”


17 posted on 07/18/2013 3:51:27 PM PDT by mouske
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To: jazusamo

Dear Darrell Issa.....GET WILLIAM WILKINS.....NOW!!!!


18 posted on 07/19/2013 2:59:33 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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