Ted Cruz: Congress Should Impeach Eric Holder If He Takes No Action on IRS Targeting Scandal

Breitbart.com/Big-Government ^ | 4-10-2014 | Tony Lee

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In a Thursday appearance on Sean Hannity's radio program, Cruz said Holder should be impeached for "defying Congress and the rule of law." He said Holder's actions were not in the spirit of the Department of Justice, which Cruz said has "a bipartisan tradition of resisting partisan pressure and upholding the rule of law." Cruz cited examples of Holder's predecessors (Janet Reno and Elliot Richardson, respectively) from Bill Clinton's and Richard Nixon's administrations.

Cruz said he was "very pleased" that Lerner was held in contempt by the House Committee but noted that the Justice Department has not indicted one person eight months after the inspector general concluded that the IRS had wrongfully targeted conservative groups. He blistered the Obama administration for appointing a Democrat who was a bundler for Obama's campaign to head the IRS investigation, and he said that would be akin to John Mitchell investigating Richard Nixon.

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One thing that us non-brain dead conservatives have realized after the “privatization” experiments of the last 20 years is that privatization is not a panacea and that government has amazing abilities to corrupt private enterprise that gets involved with it.

Increasingly, these “private” companies like Booz Allen Hamilton of Snowden fame are acting as for-profit arms of the gov’t. It’s harder and harder to tell where government ends and “private contractors” begin.

Any honest assessment of this phenomenon will note that the process started under Clinton, but accelerated and reached monstrous proportions under Bush II, especially in matters pertaining to the Iraq war, an orgy of corruption that has still not be properly autopsied.