Silly peasant.
It is not for YOU to question the Officers of the King.
Of course you are right Jim. However, there are some real twisted sisters
running the GOP. They would rather use it as a campaign issue than
make those involved pay a price.
susan mcdougle her azz
>> if the congress is incapable of breaking this administration’s stonewall,
A question to raise is whether or not Congress is truly interested in breaking through to the facts. I’m not confident it is.
They need to Jail the top couple levels of leadership of the IRS for destroying evidence and then let them know they can get Clemency if they squeal like a rat/pig on their co-horts and the longer they don’t the less likely they will get Clemency.
It’s time for people to start going to jail over this. It starts with Lerner.
Immunize her
Let’s do it Alan west’s way.put a gun to her head then ask.
She gave up her 5th Amendment right to not self incriminate by her earlier testimony.
Aside from name rank and serial number, it is essentially all or nothing.
Somebody will squeal if they squease just the right place.
I think they are afraid of how far up the ladder it goes, because if it happens to go all the way to the top they will forced to impeach and then be painted as racist haters.
S.O.S.D.D.
Your post is a trip into the past, isn’t it? These are exactly the same questions pounded out hourly by the “media” as they sought to bring down the loathed Richard Nixon.
As far as I am concerned, your list of questions, and their absence from the “media” is proof positive that the entire Watergate “scandal” was a political dust-up and nothing more.
The people who trumpeted those questions and demanded answers are the very same who today remain silent.
Yep, the Sergeant at Arms of the House should arrest and jail her.
Inform her of her obligation to testify under oath and that she will stay locked up until the end of this Congress if she doesn’t.
Then inform her if Republicans hold control of the House in the next Congress she’ll stay locked up.
Be up front with her, don’t make her wonder what will be her future.
Gingrich would have put her in the House jail by now, to put pressure on the opposition. But John Boehner has a dinner date with a wine bottle, so he can’t get around to it, today or any other day.
The sad fact is that Congress only has two tools available to it in the Constitution when it comes to oversight of the other two branches of government - the power of the purse and impeachment.
Now, since the GOP in Congress got so scared of public opinion during the "government shutdown", they have preemptively declared that they will not allow that to happen again. What that means is that they have unilaterally surrendered the power of the purse. If the GOP try to cut the funding for the IRS or Justice in order to get them to comply, all Dingy Harry has to do is refuse to bring the appropriations bill to a vote, or Obama threaten to veto the bill if it passes. They know if the government gets shut down, the GOP will get blamed by the lapdog MSM, and thus by the low-information voters that depend upon government largesse, and so they will cave. That takes away the key weapon the Founders gave Congress to make them a co-equal branch of government.
The other weapon, impeachment, is also one that will never be used by this Congress. First, even if the House could muster enough votes to impeach Holder or some other Senate-approved member of the administration (forget about Obama!), the Senate would never vote to convict. And the GOP is so lousy at communicating with the public, and with the MSM a propaganda arm of the DNC and Obama administration, any impeachment attempt would end like the Clinton impeachment -with the GOP reviled and Obama and the Dems gaining new popularity with the public.
I'm sorry to be so pessimistic. Congress, which was supposed to be the first among equals in the government because of the direct connection to the voters, has allowed itself to become a joke, little more than a rubber-stamp for the ruling party. The president ignores and changes the laws at his whim, and there is nothing they will do to stop him.
If this could have been ended simply by throwing Lerner under the bus she would be covered in tire tracks.
But, no, they keep digging in their heels.
Their continued efforts are all the proof anyone needs that this goes all the way to Obama.
No one else is worth this much protection.
If this was the Bush years they MSM would be demanding people be frog marched out of the White House. I am surprised to see CNN and PMSNBC actually covering the story this AM.
I’ve been watching these IRS Committee hearing since they started, by observation I can say that this whole thing is a Circus Dog and Pony Show.
I do believe they don’t want to get to the truth because if they do, there will be a number of Rino’s implicated in the persecution of conservatives by the IRS.
I think it also may be likely Issa himself is involved; we know Cummings is involved as has been reported here on FR; but he is still on the committee.
My frustration level is through the roof, this committee is run like an amateur show, though some questions and comments by some congressmen have been awesome.