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Lois Lerner could go to jail in contempt clash
The Washington Examiner ^
| March 27, 2014
| editorial board
Posted on 03/30/2014 8:54:52 AM PDT by sgtyork
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Not in our lifetimes. We need a leader with the fortitude to bring respect and discipline back to the lower house. It isn't Boner, Cantor, or Issa.
You are quite correct, but...
Those "leaders" understand the politics of elections, and the politics of spin and demonization during campaigns.
They can smell victories this election year, and even picking up more seats in the house, and taking over the senate. Democrats could use any issue and turn it into the main and most talked about issue, sidetracking any discussions about Obamacare and the weak economy and high unemployment and our weak military and weak foreign policy. Unfortunately, we might have to put up with a weak set of investigations of the corrupt IRS and Obama administration, until after the elections. We have to keep our focus on the bigger goals this year.
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posted on
03/30/2014 9:54:46 AM PDT
by
adorno
(Y)
To: sgtyork
Not sure where Lerner would be placed for Inherent Contempt, but for Statutory Congressional Contempt it's "common jail":
Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House, or any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or any committee of either House of Congress, willfully makes default, or who, having appeared, refuses to answer any question pertinent to the question under inquiry, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than [$100,000] nor less than $100 and imprisonment in a common jail for not less than one month nor more than twelve months.
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posted on
03/30/2014 9:56:27 AM PDT
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: sgtyork
But will the House have the b*lls to put her behind bars?
Imagine the backlash coming from Obama, RATS and MSM.
Such action would set a precedence for future revenge when the tables are turned.
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posted on
03/30/2014 9:57:58 AM PDT
by
353FMG
To: Mr. K
I think Lerner is guilty of criminal actions but i think she did it on orders from higher up. Lois Lerner knew instinctively, that, it was in the best interest of bigger government and its enablers, the Bolshecrat Party, the TEA party needed to be stopped. Should she ever get immunity it will stop with her and no one else will be charged.
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posted on
03/30/2014 10:01:55 AM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
To: sgtyork
John Boehner will not direct the House Sergeant at arms to arrest Lois Lerner because he does not want to vindicate The Tea Parties in the IRS dispute. He, like Mitch McConnell, is fighting a guerrilla war against The Tea Party. If it were otherwise, Boehner would already have announced a special committee to investigate the IRS scandal.
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posted on
03/30/2014 10:03:03 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Hah, the republicans aren't even pretending to care about this. Laws are only used against ‘little’ people, not big shot govt bureaucrats.
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posted on
03/30/2014 10:08:10 AM PDT
by
Bullish
(America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
To: sgtyork
Oh yes, Lois Lerner could go to jail. And monkeys could fly out of my rear end. Frankly with the sort of Republican leadership we now have I believe the latter possibility to be more likely.
To: Tupelo
To: sgtyork
Step One in this process is trying to figure out how to retrive certain important body parts Boehner needs from the Clinton Lock Box.
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posted on
03/30/2014 10:13:02 AM PDT
by
sjmjax
(Politicans are much like bananas. They start off green, turn yellow then rot.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Concur, John Boehner is compromised and Lizard Queen Jarrett put him on call a long time ago.
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posted on
03/30/2014 10:14:01 AM PDT
by
DAC21
To: adorno
Unfortunately, there is ALWAYS a “next election” to worry about. Ergo, nothing EVER gets done. Except for the continual ratchet toward full dictatorship and communism.
To: P-Marlowe
I would agree....that advice on how to handle the fifth was not understood at all. For anyone, who should ever get called in front of a grand jury or congress....if you think you are involved in something sneaky or illegal....from the minute you walk in....just keep to ‘no comment due to the fifth amendment’ routine. Don’t say anything else.
To: sgtyork
To: Utah Binger
You want me to do that?
Today and tomorrow, and I'm outta here!
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posted on
03/30/2014 10:23:50 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
(Are all Democrats inveterate, habitual liars?)
To: sgtyork
"When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt,
but protects the corrupt from you -
you know your nation is doomed."
-Ayn Rand
To: sgtyork
Barring a clearly documented National-security reason, a public official taking the 5th in a Congressional hearing is essentially incompatible with their Constitutional oath.
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posted on
03/30/2014 10:33:49 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Book 'er, Boehno...)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Unfortunately, there is ALWAYS a next election to worry about. Ergo, nothing EVER gets done. Except for the continual ratchet toward full dictatorship and communism.
True, there is always a next election. But...
Not every election cycle offers the same kind of hopeful outlook that this election cycle offers. When the chances of gaining more house seats, and taking over the senate are the prizes, one has to tread water very carefully.
Republicans can get more things done with complete control of congress, than with just one chamber.
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posted on
03/30/2014 10:44:31 AM PDT
by
adorno
(Y)
To: adorno
the politics of spin and demonization during campaigns. ...Unfortunately, we might have to put up with a weak set of investigations of the corrupt IRS and Obama administration, until after the elections. On the other hand, bringing up contempt charges against the IRS employee might be just the thing that is needed...in this election year. You can bet that the Dems in the IRS are planning some stupid stuff.
To: mikrofon
Incompatible?
It is misprision of felony by Issa and Cummings and the
rest, who are too busy with THEMSELVES and their brothels
and schemes to even address one (1) of the scores
of criminal and treasonous acts ubiquitously around them.
To: sgtyork
It could well be that Lois Lerner is afraid for her life.
As probable as this may be, her demeanor has been one of defiance, not fear.
A bit of time in a cell might prove interesting.
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