Posted on 03/14/2014 6:16:03 PM PDT by smoothsailing
March 14, 2014
Republican Rep. Darrell Issa has penned a personal, scathing letter to his Democratic counterpart on the House oversight committee, escalating the public feud between the two high-ranking lawmakers amid the committee's investigation into IRS targeting.
The letter to Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., top Democrat on that committee, was obtained by Fox News. In it, Issa countered, point by point, a series of claims that Cummings and two legal experts made earlier this week about whether former IRS official Lois Lerner could be held in contempt for refusing to testify.
Issa went further, effectively accusing Cummings of running interference on behalf of his party and the administration.
"... rather than pursuing the facts where they lead -- which is the function of effective congressional oversight -- you have made yourself an obstacle to effective congressional oversight, in effect, a defense counsel for Lerner and others who acted to deprive Americans of their constitutionally-guaranteed rights," the committee chairman wrote.
In another verbal sting, he continued: "Even though the White House helped orchestrate your ascension to Ranking Member, I have encouraged, and continue to encourage, you to subordinate your political loyalties to the institutional interests of the Committee and the House, especially in cases like this where obstructing the Committee's work risks permanently disadvantaging Congress in its interactions with the Executive Branch." ...
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Issa’s doing the right thing... there no place on a committee for the kind of grandstanding Cummings wants to do... he’s a jerk...
Also I’d like to see him as Chairman of the House Ethics Committee for the same reason, coming down hard on Cummings. And any other Marxist/Democrat, there’s plenty of them.
I still don’t understand why those idiots didn’t nail that b#tch to the stand forcing her to take the 5 the for hours like the Mafia Don she is, when they had her there. If we’re going for atmospherics THATS the image to show the country.
Cummings is a nasty racist ... a discredit to everything MLK preached and stood for .
It boldly scathed where no letter has scathed before!
How exactly can the rats hold the line in the house? Issa is a Congressman, and Pubbies own the House. And I am unsure about this, but I believe that the House has enforcement actions available to them (arrest powers) that do not depend on Holder.
Sadly, you are correct. Issa is seemingly impotent.
NO! Speaker of the House!
No argument here! :)
“I have a procedural question”.....
Knock it off.
Well said.
I call it Legal Obstruction Of Justice == LOOJ
The Dem leaders of this, plus their useful idiot followers/enablers = the LOOJes and their Stooges.
Issa needs to run the CIA and root out all the marxists commies, radicals, muslims and socialists bring them to trial and lock them all up
Obama and Democrats are Law-Less because Republican “leaders” are BALL-LESS!!
I don’t know what happened to my tagline!!
Whos is that troll on Cummings' left?
“Issa has wasted nearly a year”........
Good things take time and sometimes a LONG time. In the end, Issa is seeking “bigger fish” and personally, I hope he DOES catch a few and in particular one big trophy.
“Issa has wasted nearly a year”........
Good things take time and sometimes a LONG time. In the end, Issa is seeking “bigger fish” and personally, I hope he DOES catch a few and in particular one big trophy.
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