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'That's Not How It Works!': Rep. Gowdy Objects to Top IRS Official Taking the Fifth
Fox ^ | 5/22/13 | Fox

Posted on 05/22/2013 10:05:09 AM PDT by Nachum

Lois Lerner, director of the IRS division that singled out conservative groups, invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to testify at a House oversight hearing on the scandal.

Lois Lerner, director of the IRS division that singled out conservative groups, invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to testify at a House oversight hearing on the scandal.

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KEYWORDS: dummycrats; fifth; gowdy; issa; official; rerun; troll; trolls
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To: chris37
Be mad,

?? Again, speaking about what you nothing about. Where did I say I was mad and mad about what? I'm not the finger pointer accuser who refuses to answer a simple question to back up his words - which demonstrates a lack of credibility. So what could I possibly be mad about? You have no idea but you just say things.

All you have been doing so far is projecting. What you claim Issa is - you are. You are obviously mad because you accuse me of it. Meanwhile, from someone who claims he doesn't care more than a few times.

No more of my time nor FR's bandwidth will I waste on you.

81 posted on 05/22/2013 4:31:11 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

Good, screw off.


82 posted on 05/22/2013 4:35:22 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: clintonh8r; shhrubbery!
My #22 begat #37 and #52...and the assessments couldn't be further apart.

Let's see how thing plays out. But I believe Issa has Ms. Lerner exactly where he wants her: trapped in the web of her own arrogance.

83 posted on 05/22/2013 6:50:36 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE --)
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To: okie01
This is a trap which the media will spring to fully discredit the IRS thuggery scandal.

Issa will bring this bitch in and she will be put under oath. Then she will refuse to answer anything he or the committee asks and the media will rush to air the talking points they're fed from little barry soetoro's asshats which will focus upon the trap set for Scooter Libby by making him answer questions which answers were then twisted to convict him 'unfairly'. Issa is as big a fool as he can be. In the words of that imminent philospher, Bugs Bunny, "Whatta maroon!"

84 posted on 05/22/2013 6:57:38 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: MHGinTN

So, you wouldda done...what?


85 posted on 05/22/2013 7:20:50 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE --)
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To: okie01
I cannot believe someone on the committee did not anticipate this from the thuggery regime, that she would post a statement of what she wanted on the record bu refuse to answer any questions.

When she pleaded the fifth, after singing a statement, then stating at the hearing that she did nothing wrong/illegal, the committee should not have allowed her to leave until every memeber with a question or two asked her and the record would have a long list of questions posed to her which could then be placed alongside the specious claim that she did nothing worng. remember, with the liberal mind the charges/queries are more important than the truth. we should have posed the charges in the form of questions she would then plead the fifth over!

86 posted on 05/22/2013 8:34:23 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: MHGinTN
I cannot believe someone on the committee did not anticipate this from the thuggery regime, that she would post a statement of what she wanted on the record bu refuse to answer any questions.

Obviously, they DID anticipate the possibility. And were ready for it.

Having waived her right to hide behind the 5A, she now has two alternatives: testify...or go to jail. A choice that may well lead to her attorney negotiating immunity...and she spilling her guts.

87 posted on 05/22/2013 9:33:50 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE --)
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To: okie01

“And were ready for it.” Um, no. Issa was completely taken aback and allowed the woman to skate from the hearing, with the moemntary pasue caused By Rep. Gowdy objecting to turning her loose without questioning. Now, they are supposedly calling her back, but they lost the first day initiative and the media will never allow them to get it back.


88 posted on 05/22/2013 9:38:16 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Nervous Tick
What did he win?

He won the day. Yes there will be more battles, but for today, Lerner --and Obama-- lost.

More importantly, what, specifically, did WE THE PEOPLE win?

Whenever Obama loses, we the people win.

89 posted on 05/22/2013 10:03:01 PM PDT by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: MHGinTN
Issa was completely taken aback and allowed the woman to skate from the hearing, with the moemntary pasue caused By Rep. Gowdy objecting to turning her loose without questioning. Now, they are supposedly calling her back, but they lost the first day initiative and the media will never allow them to get it back.

No offense, but I'm glad you're not running the hearings.

90 posted on 05/22/2013 10:20:15 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE --)
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To: okie01

Yeah, I’m glad too. I would waterboard the bitch.


91 posted on 05/22/2013 10:32:08 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: shhrubbery!

>> for today, Lerner —and Obama— lost.

Nonsense.

As of yesterday (your today), thanks to Issa, Lerner had her one-sided testimony proclaiming innocence; Obama and the ‘rats had *their* talking point neatly encapsulated in her opening speech, ready for distribution on the state-run media; and we the people got NOT ONE DAMN THING. No answers, no blow against the progressive evil that is Lois Lerner. None!

If it hadn’t been for Gowdy raising the question, Issa would have let her walk, never to return, never to force her to deny specifics.

You’re enjoying a cheap republican-party wet dream if you think Darryl Issa comported himself well yesterday vis a vis Lerner. He screwed up, big time. If he keeps going the way he has in the past, he’ll notch another mushy defeat on this critical issue, as he has on one hundred percent of everything he’s tackled so far.

Wake up and smell the coffee. Issa is a loser.


92 posted on 05/23/2013 6:26:55 AM PDT by Nervous Tick
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To: Nervous Tick; shhrubbery!
Lerner had her one-sided testimony proclaiming innocence

And who believed her? Pleading the 5th while proclaiming innocence - is not winning!

93 posted on 05/23/2013 8:08:19 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

>> And who believed her?

That’s pretty thin gruel. The media, thanks to Issa, got a sound byte that they are even now using, proclaiming her innocence.

We have ZERO-ZILCH-ZIPPO-NADA to counter that with. NO video of her answering “fifth” to every pointed question.

With the media’s help, Issa’s screwup will be gleefully used to push Obama’s side of it to a public ignorant of the real issues. MANY will believe her.


94 posted on 05/23/2013 8:14:11 AM PDT by Nervous Tick
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To: Nervous Tick
We have ZERO-ZILCH-ZIPPO-NADA to counter that with. NO video of her answering “fifth” to every pointed question.

Do you actually think people who hears her 'innocent' testimony believes her? - that you need anything to counter it with? You, obviously, believe her or something.

'innocent' yet, it happened. Pleading the 5th protects her (for the moment)from perjuring herself - but affords 'the people' something to laugh about and only gives assurance to 'the people' that the IRS is a political arm of the WH.

95 posted on 05/23/2013 8:34:44 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

>> Do you actually think people who hears her ‘innocent’ testimony believes her?

Read for meaning — we just went over that. HER side got presented 24/7 by the state-run media. Hell yes, she is being portrayed as an innocent victim by the state run media and hell yes, many LIV will believe her. Because thanks to that idiot Issa there’s no antidote! Nothing to counter those opening-statement optics with.

>> You, obviously, believe her or something.

That’s just inflammatory nonsense on your part. Of course I know she’s evil lying scum. I’m a HIGH information voter.


96 posted on 05/23/2013 8:42:55 AM PDT by Nervous Tick
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To: Nervous Tick
HER side got presented 24/7 by the state-run media. Hell yes, she is being portrayed as an innocent victim by the state run media

DUH! What is new about this - the state run media is only doing their job. WHO believes them? Do you honestly believe even a liberal is incapable of laughing? Be more fearful of the libs on the committee and not 'her innocence' being proclaimed by the media. She didn't PROVE her innocence.

I’m a HIGH information voter.

Well then post as one. I see fear of the lying media in your post with 'no video' to counteract them as if a video would make a difference.

97 posted on 05/23/2013 9:29:12 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

>> WHO believes them?
You really are that willfully boneheaded, aren’t you? Even after passing through Nov. 2012, you still think the country at large sees things the same as you do in your insulated echo chamber.

>> Well then post as one.

Oh, agree with your stupidity, eh? That’s what you mean, of course.

No thanks, I’ll continue to think for myself and believe my own lying eyes, not what a shrieking party suckup tells me I am seeing.


98 posted on 05/23/2013 12:48:40 PM PDT by Nervous Tick
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To: Nervous Tick
You really are that willfully boneheaded, aren’t you

WOW! Talk about willful, a bit stubborn I see. Voters don't believe 'he won' for they know 'it was the fraud' that won.

No thanks, I’ll continue to think for myself and believe my own lying eyes, not what a shrieking party suckup tells me I am seeing.

Poor thing let me help you think, it's not what you are seeing but what you are believing!

99 posted on 05/23/2013 2:50:48 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

Thanks for the offer, but you’d need a brain to help me think. It’s a non-negotiable requirement that you have thoroughly demonstrated you don’t meet.

>> Voters don’t believe ‘he won’ for they know ‘it was the fraud’ that won.

Uh, okay, whatever you say; I’m sure on “Planet PNSN” it’s just that way. Real world, not so much.


100 posted on 05/23/2013 3:10:51 PM PDT by Nervous Tick
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