Posted on 07/18/2013 1:33:36 PM PDT by jazusamo
During today’s IRS hearing before the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) took a detour that she may regret. Holmes Norton lauded the IRS officials who were testifying before the committee, which at that point were Carter Hull and Elizabeth Hofacre.
Hull and Hofacre are among the IRS agents who were involved in scrutinizing Tea Party and conservative groups. Both testified that they were acting on orders from their superiors in Washington.
Hofacre worked in the Cincinnati office that IRS Washington official Lois Lerner blamed for the abuse. Lerner broke the story in a conference call in May, while blaming “rogue employees.” Hofacre would have been one of those so-called “rogue employees,” as would Hull. Lerner had blamed them, without directly naming them, for the abuse.
Hofacre testified before the committee that Lerner’s statement hit her and her office like a “nuclear strike.” It was devastating, because the IRS officials in Cincinnati have said all along that they were only doing what their superiors in Washington were telling them to do.
During her inquiry time, after lauding Hull and Hofacre, Norton said, “I don’t see any rogue employees.” She said that she saw before her American civil servants who were just doing their job.
That is pretty much the point that the Tea Party groups and the Republicans on the committee have been making all along. The Cincinnati IRS office had not gone rogue, but was acting under orders from Washington. Hull’s testimony put the blame squarely in the office of the IRS chief counsel, William Wilkins.
Norton, accidentally, agreed with that assessment.
Sheila Jackson Lee: “ Mr. President, I rise in opposition to the 4th amendment to the Constitution!
LOL! I should have included Lee too.
Bump this one, Holmes just gave away the truth, WHAT was she thinking?
These socialists approve of denying Conservatives civil rights protections while whining about civil rights. Real bigots are on the left.
irs did what it was told, by the present corrupt administration.
Consider her background.
I’m sure she’ll correct her “error” as soon as one of her colleagues points it out to her. Can’t expect our “leaders” to actually pay attention to what they say all the time, can we?
Another one of these people blindly returned to the House again, and again, and again, by constituents who vote for skin color alone.
In a contest for stupid, Congresswoman Gwen Moore, WI-4th District (Milwaukee) is hard to beat.
Sometimes you have to say it to find out what you said.
I’ve seen compost heaps with more brains than Norton and Waters have combined.
She said it before she said she didn’t say it.
IBTCD (In before the categorical denial.)
“Sometimes you have to say it to find out what you said.”
Paraphrasing William Buckley, “I won’t insult you by suggesting that you actually believe what you just said.”
Dear Darrell Issa.....GET WILLIAM WILKINS.....NOW!!!!
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