[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] House Boodle Central Republicans aren't ruling out the use of the chamber's "inherent contempt" authority if Attorney General Eric Inaction Jackson Holder ... aka Mister Fast and Furious... refuses to act on the panel's accusations against former IRS official Lois Lerner.
The committee voted Wednesday to seek an investigation of whether Lerner violated federal law by using her power to ensure Right-leaning groups were targeted for extra scrutiny by the agency, giving misleading information during a probe of the matter by the Treasury Department's inspector general and using her personal email to conduct official business, which could have resulted in the disclosure of confidential taxpayer information.
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04/11/2014 00:00 ||
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It won't happen, the congress critters are too freaking spineless.
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I hope the Congress does order her arrested. Holder and the Champ have nothing but contempt for the Congress, seeing it as an illegitimate body and impediment to their social justice agenda. As soon as Congress orders her arrested, Holder will direct that the FBI release her, and if she doesn't have it already, she'll be provided Federal protective status. We may very soon see where the actual power currently lies in Washington.
Lerner will stick to her guns and say nothing, even if immunity is offered. Holder and his DoJ have already met with Lerner and made their deals, the details of which they will not be disclosed. I seriously doubt she will ever be arrested or detained. Congress knows this. Their timidity betrays them.
The Lois Learner controversy is a minor distraction when compared to the turmoil that will ensue if the pubs take control of both houses of Congress. The fight with the God-King and his enforcers has only just begun.
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The Reps and Senators in Congress are not people like us. They are professional insiders and their purpose is Big Government and POWER.Contempt for ordinary Americans is natural to manipulative Leftists who want to Control your every thought...that is what PC is for...Democrats USE people naturally. Republicans ,on the other hand, like Big government as long as they HAVE it to use themselves. They don't actually TRUST ordinary Americans. They are an ELITE that slavers after POWER ( as long as they CONTROL it
Limit a Reps or a Senators term...put them away from POWER and they will not stay or be allowed to stay. Open government to ordinary people.
You can't ALLOW that can you? MONEY gets people elected and the US doesn't have a government except by people with lots and lots of money. Eventually if you want to be free you are going to need to remove King George from Washington DC. It is practically inevitable.
The US govt. will kill you and walk if they think they can. Nero is always there on the balcony. But he better stay off the streets.
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Capital letters. WTF is it with posts containing capital letters? Is it the poster saying to the reader "you're too damn stupid to read and understand, so I have to 'drive it home' for you?"
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Caps are just a way to place an emphasis in print as one would in speech. Italics and bold font are others, but not as accessible to those of us who are but marginally computer-literate. As in speech, a little emphasis is a good thing, while too much emphasis is just shouting.
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American politics, imho, now resembles the NFL Pro Bowl. Everybody shows up at an exotic (OK, so my analogy falls a little short here, but there is access from Dulles.) location expecting the game to go nice and nice.
The fans have something to look at and drink to, the players are engaging in a physically riskless game and the people putting on the show make the $.
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When posters get overly CAPPY
In hope that their prose will be SNAPPY
The noisier copy
Appeals to the gawpy
But REALLY makes Pappy unhappy.
As career patronizer and occasional CAPS sinner in youth, I think it's more laziness than overkill. It's hard work typing all those asterisks and underscores some folks use for emphasis, and it's REALLY hard work puffing up sticky little blobs of emotion into imposing balloons of cotton-candy prose and editing them back down again. Takes the wind right out of you. Or so I've heard. Of course, I (capped) only ever used DUH CAPS as a clever 18th Century affectation. Faw faw faw.
[NATIONALREVIEW] The war between Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa and the committee's ranking member, Elijah Cummings ...Representative-for-life from Maryland, representing half of Baltimore City, which makes his district ultra-safe, and most of Howard County, which is out-populated by the city. Cummings' politix are so liberal they're tedious... , rages on.
Issa on Wednesday accused the Maryland Democrat of colluding with the Internal Revenue Service in its targeting of the conservative nonprofit group True the Vote, whose founder, Catherine Engelbrecht, said she received multiple letters from Cummings in 2012 and personal visits from the IRS and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Explosives. Engelbrecht's True the Vote is one of the many conservative groups that claims to have been improperly targeted by the IRS while it scrutinized the applications of tea-party groups.
In a letter signed by his five subcommittee chairmen, Issa raised the possibility that Cummings coordinated with the IRS, "surreptitiously" contacting the agency to request information about True the Vote.
E-mails unearthed in the course of Issa's investigation into the IRS's inappropriate targeting of right-leaning groups show that in January 2013, a member of Cummings's staff contacted the IRS asking for any publicly available information on True the Vote. The matter was discussed by IRS officials that included Lois Lerner, the former exempt-organizations chief who retired in the wake of the targeting scandal. One of Lerner's deputies, Holly Paz, subsequently sent the organization's 990 forms to Cummings and his staff -- not an illegal disclosure of taxpayer information, though sources say the exchange of such information was not routine.
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The IRS serves their Big Gubbamint Democrat Masters. Active collusion is just a logical progression
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Elijah Cummings only crime is oxygen consumption.
The documents, which you can read below, did not become available to the rest of us until yesterday. They tell stories not only of a May-December romance gone sour, but of how obscene wealth can be amassed through rent-seeking and influence-peddling in Washington D.C., and of the hoary means by which the princelings of the capital and their consorts maintain and grow that wealth. They tell stories not only of an ugly divorce, but of the power of lobbying, of how one family maneuvered to the center of the nation's dominant political party, of the transactional relationships, gargantuan self-regard, and empty posturing that insulates, asbestos-like, the D.C. bubble...
[NY Times] Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, is resigning, ending a stormy five-year tenure marred by the disastrous rollout of President B.O.'s signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act.
Mr. Obama accepted Ms. Sebelius's resignation this week, and on Friday morning he will nominate Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, to replace her, officials said.
The departure comes as the B.O. regime tries to move beyond its early stumbles in carrying out the law, persuade a still-skeptical public of its lasting benefits, and help Democratic incumbents, who face blistering attack ads after supporting the legislation, survive the midterm elections this fall.
Posted by: Fred ||
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No sweat Bro. Mac Daddies always have another white girl lined up to pimp the people.
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She didn't resign, she retired - she's 65. And besides, her task is complete, with success assured of ZeroCare now that it achieved its goal of 7 million signed up.
And as 'Great Unknown' commented: "Given the quality of Obama's appointees, and the direction he is moving now, don't be too sure. I foresee billboards with pictures of her and the caption "Miss Me Yet?""
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Champ picks his budget director Sylvia Mathews Burwell as the Sebelius turtle. With a regime fiscal situation in total disarray and trillions of dollars in the red, what could possibly go wrong ?
Burwell is a well groomed, bright young face which may appeal to ACA reluctant millennials. The Champ knows he'll need access to lots and lots of cash to support the ACA scheme and Burwell can help him find it. If she faces a tough Congressional confirmation, Congress will be labeled misogynist and racist.
A polite golf clap would be appropriate for under-bussed, useful idiot Sebelius. She served the regime well.
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If she faces a tough Congressional confirmation, Congress will be labeled misogynist and racist.
I don't know about you, but I've been thinking - if the 'Pubs were smart (I know, Stupid Party & all that), that's exactly what I'd do, to keep pissing them off to draw this exact charge from the Donks over and over and over...
I'd think at some point some fencesitters would then view the Donks as the professional crybabies they are.
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Let the emperor and his regime have their phony victory lap and new face. When Burwell goes after more budget to supplement the failed ACA scheme, Congress should step on her dick and hard !
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This morning the Republicans have seized on her resignation saying it is not enough. They said Obamacare must be repealed, her resignation proves it is a failure. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, "Obamacare has to go, too."
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Champ picks up turd from clean end extends accolades to Sebelius in Rose Garden for success of ACA. Sebelius gets kiss from Plugs. Champ sez 7.5 million Americans somebodies now signed up.
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True story: Last night the news alert on my smart phone had two items.
Major story: The escaped chimp from the KC Zoo was coaxed back into his compound.
In other news: Kathleen Sebelius resigned today.
[ONLINESENTINEL] Sen. Angus King prompted a flurry of political speculation in the nation's Capitol on Thursday, a day after he parted ways with the Democratic majority and voted with Republicans against the Paycheck Fairness Act.
King, who has caucused and voted reliably with Democrats since his election in 2012, was asked whether the vote was a sign that he might consider caucusing with Republicans if the landscape of the Senate changes with the midterm elections in November.
Keeping his cards close as he often does, King did not rule it out.
"I'll make my decision at the time based on what I think is best for Maine," he told The Hill, a Washington, D.C.-based publication.
The headline in The Hill became "King may flip to GOP in 2015," but in reality, his comments do not represent any shift.
He's been saying for the last two years that he is not beholden to either party, even though he often sides with the majority Democrats -- who have made the paycheck legislation a political priority for the November election.
"Sen. King only told The Hill newspaper what he's always said -- that his guiding principle is, and always will be, to do what is right for Maine," his spokeswoman, Kathleen Connery Dawe, said Thursday.
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Why would he 'flip' when he can enjoy the best of both worlds? King and many of his like minded, New England brethren still hold Tory monarchists sentiments. Unfortunately, it's in the bloed. I suspect he'll stay where he's most comfortable.
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If the Reps don't actually need his unreliable vote for a majority, they should tell him to FOAD. He's Arlen Specter all over again
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I dunno. I didn't realize there was a requirement that one had to be either be a Republican or a Democrat. Personally, the more one can peel away from the latter on given issues, the better.
And it's also funny how many commenters here lauded (now former) Senator Joe Lieberman, when he often did the same thing.
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Oh, sure, Pappy, blame MY family. Sometimes I think you Yankees need to learn to burn stuff down for yourselves instead of leaving it to whatever college administrator from Louisiana y'all dupe into the job.
OTOH, I could explain in two words why I think B. might have a point about being suspicious about "converts" to Republicanism.
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Oh, I don't argue the point. Then again, many of the New Englanders who were of Revolutionary War stock moved West by the time the Civil War kicked in.
Native Mainers, however, have always been a pretty cantankerous lot. Southern Maine is home to refugees from Massachusetts (like Californians are to Texas) and such; that doesn't really count as 'Maine'.
And I don't disagree about 'converts'.
I think "John Carter William Tecumseh Sherman from Mars" would make a heck of a movie.
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I dunno, meneer. He did make an impression; I understand there's still some... strong feelings*... about William T. out your way.
*Like the college kid, pulled over for speeding and admonished that "nobody drives through Georgia that fast," replying that it only took Sherman three days on horseback.
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Read a book by Liddie Hart that had a big section on Sherman's tactics. Apparantly in the run-up to WW2 Hitler's staff also took lessons from that book and used them on the Russian front which was very successful initially.
Sherman might have been crazy but his tactics were sound (if hellish).
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His tactics were very damn sound, Joe Johnson's tactics in defense above Atlanta were sound too (a mobile defense in depth)taking out near 3K a day till that idiot in Richmond found a Jawn Bell Hood and wasted it all in a stupid counter attack on Nashville.
But that's just me, I don't keep score. Never did. Nope.
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"Sen. King only told The Hill newspaper what he's always said -- that his guiding principle is, and always will be, to do what is right for Maine,"
Well I think King is representing a Blue State, which has been in a jam, for at least 50 years.
No genuine economy to speak of mired in high number of welfare recipients, and is a backwater for liberal burnouts.
[The Blaze] U.S. Circuit Judge William Pryor Jr., a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, expressed his unease with Holder directive to federal prosecutors on reducing prosecutions and sentencing for drug crimes, thus bypassing the regular commission process. A bold expression of 'unease' was it? The throughput must be stopped before the political prisoners can be freed. What does the judge not understand ?
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The first black president and Attorney General have brought the tool of ugly and divisive along with them. It helped them come to power, it's a very useful tool. Notice the enthusiasm and jubilation from the audience? It works! We'll see more of it, not less.
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One name - John Mitchell.
Former AG convicted and jailed for obstruction, conspiracy, and perjury. Of course he was white and didn't have the Race Card(tm) to cover for his actions while in office.
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Can't blame them for their contempt. Look at the worshipping Democrats and cowed Republicans that dominate Congress. I do hope they make an example of Holder.
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The problem is he screams "RACIST" ignoring the fact that he's a bad character and IS doing what (He calls) RACIST planings, is it Racism to call a Race Baiter a Racist?
If you do the crime, yoy are branded with the name, hatefull or not.
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I blame...THE MAN!!!
Oh, wait. I am The Man...
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Champ picks his budget director Sylvia Mathews Burwell as the Sebelius turtle. With a regime fiscal situation in total disarray and trillions of dollars in the red, what could possibly go wrong ?
