Posted on 03/05/2014 8:09:26 AM PST by blam
Democratic Congressman Goes Ballistic At IRS Hearing After Darrell Issa Cuts Off His Mic
Brett LoGiurato
Mar. 5, 2014, 10:26 AM
Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Democratic ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, flipped out at Republican Chairman Darrell Issa during a hearing on the IRS' targeting of certain conservative groups Wednesday morning.
Issa hauled former IRS official Lois Lerner back before the committee Wednesday morning as part of his ongoing investigation into the IRS' scrutiny of certain conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status.
Lerner, as expected, invoked her right to plead the Fifth Amendment in the investigation, as she had when she testified last year. After she pleaded the Fifth Amendment, Issa adjourned the hearing, saying he saw "no point in going further."
Cummings was not ready for the hearing to end. He began shouting, and Issa cut off his microphone. After he convinced Issa to let him ask a question, Cummings began screaming into the microphone again — at which point Issa shut off his microphone for a second time.
Congressional Democrats at the hearing shouted, "Shame! Shame!" as Issa shut off Cummings' microphone.
"I am a member of the Congress of the United States of America! I am tired of this!" Cummings said. He continued railing, calling the investigation "un-American."
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DemocRats once again acting as though they are legal counsel for the witness.
Cummings is grousing about the Democrats not having any say in the hearings, yet next door in the US Senate Harry Reid is doing exactly the same thing to GOP Senators. Cummings is a hypocrite.
He should have been arrested and kicked out of congress when he wrote an official letter making threats to a citizen. That’s basically what all this is about. The government threatening citizens. Then the black democrat slave who’s never left the plantation, does it during the investigation.
He brings to mind a great Hank Williams song (paraphrased) “Elijah was a Wooden Insult to _______!”.
Just how the WH wanted it.
When are charges going to be filed? By whom? In which court?
Ah, yes, my “representative” . . . .
True, but in my eyes, I know him for what he is. He got where he is by the color of his skin, no differently than Obama. His existence in that House just perpetuates racism on any party’s side, and we will never get beyond that until blacks stop voting because of color.
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The people that voted for him are either:
1. stupid
2. corrupt and sold their votes for vices
3. voted fro him just because their the same race he is
4. brain dead
5. or all of the above.
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Same goes for the slugs that keep reelecting queen Sheila, hank Johnson, Maxine waters, etc. LIVs are keeping the stupid people in congress. Those districts that are gerrymandered to keep minority congress critters in office need to be done away with, and make every one square or round to get close to the same number of people represented.
Brett LoGiurato does not appear to be a journalist.The article is full of "loaded words" in order to slant the reporting.
Yet some rural county judge will throw a teenage girl in jail for laughing at him, or answering a ringing cell phone?
Yet government department heads can lie, take the 5th, flat out refuse to answer questions about massive government corruption?
And she is allowed to smugly walk out???
This country is done.....
The blacks I know, who are educated and smart, are all democrats. They do not want to be called an Oreo or uncle tom.
Well she did receive “death threats”. Fifth out of fear? Toss he in the clink. Period. If you like your fifth, you can keep your fifth.
You can’t remove the minority from the committee. Just what the left want’s to happen.
Let her editorialize: The Supreme Court ruled she no longer has 5th amendment rights if she continues to talk.
I love that, at the end, after Issa gavelled the hearing, turned off the mike, and many of the people in the room had left, Cummins finished by saying, “And with that, I yield back.”
He didn’t even have the awareness to realize that he was speaking off the record.
Idiot.
I said he “should” have been arrested. If this country was still the country I grew up in, he’d be in jail by now.
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