And there is the rub, the House or at least The Speaker and Eric Cantor and the rest of the Republican establishment do not want to get to the bottom of the IRS abuses because they themselves are threatened by The Tea Party and are not opposed to seeing it suppressed.
Andrew McCarthy makes a good point that the administration and the IRS are proceeding to codify that which they're being investigated for even as The Republicans in the House dither. Boehner knows they are doing this and one can only draw the conclusion that his passivity arises out of his selfish interest.
Some posters have misconceived the purpose and function of offers of immunity following proffers. The declarant must have enough red meat to offer the investigators to entice them to grant immunity but Lois Lerner has no incentive under the circumstances as the Republicans have created them to make such a proffer because she is under no real threat. A special committee, which Boehner stubbornly declines to appoint, would by now presumably have created a list of crimes supported by sufficient evidence to make Lois Lerner very frightened that she would be prosecuted beginning in January 2017 if she does not get a pardon from the Bamster.
You need a special committee on the IRS scandal for the same reasons you need a special committee for the Benghazi scandal and Boehner is culpable not just for negligence but, I believe, for misfeasance for failing to appoint such committees in a timely manner.
