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2014-03-11 -Lurid Crime Tales-

[THEHILL] The House Oversight Committee is unlikely to consider potential contempt charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner this week, a GOP aide said Monday.

Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) had said that he could move on holding Lerner in contempt this week, after the former head of an IRS tax-exempt division invoked her Fifth Amendment rights for a second time on Wednesday. But Issa likely won't meet that timeline, after a dust-up between the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Republican and the top Democrat on the Oversight panel, Rep. 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...
(Md.), dominated headlines late last week.

Frederick Hill, a front man for Issa, said separately Monday that: "As required by the rules, a business meeting announcement and contempt report will give members at least three business days notice."

The House is scheduled to be out of Washington next week, meaning the Oversight panel would probably be unable to consider contempt charges before late March.

Congressional Republicans have intensified their interest in the IRS in recent months, with GOP politicians insisting that all roads in their investigation lead back to Lerner.

But the confrontation between Issa and Cummings on Wednesday -- the Oversight chairman used a throat-slashing gesture to cut the Democrat's microphone -- overshadowed Lerner's return to the Oversight hearing room. Issa apologized to Cummings on Thursday after Democrats called for stripping him of the Oversight gavel.

Posted by Fred 2014-03-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Hopefully they've moved on to the 'public flogging and execution phase.'

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-11 01:00|| 2014-03-11 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 This reinforces my opinion that Issa is all hat and no saddle; starts a big dust up but can't close the deal. This is not the first time he's come up short.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-03-11 01:05|| 2014-03-11 01:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Waiting to get closer to mid term elections.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-03-11 03:12|| 2014-03-11 03:12|| Front Page Top

#4 I hope they lower the boom in time to influence the elections - here comes the BOOM (POD style)

Posted by OldSpook 2014-03-11 04:18|| 2014-03-11 04:18|| Front Page Top

#5 But holding contempt hearings would be POLITICAL, which is bad. Unlike Obama's illegal delays in Obamacare.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-03-11 08:53|| 2014-03-11 08:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Can she go to jail for contempt?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-03-11 12:01|| 2014-03-11 12:01|| Front Page Top

#7 She and her family have been threatened--she could depose off record and go into Protective Custody if she really spills all. Being targeted herself has her scared sh*tless...I hope Issa does it swiftly before her accelerator gets stuck on the way home.

Posted by Flaiger Uneamp8181 2014-03-11 15:56|| 2014-03-11 15:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Illegal delays may be coming to an end - someone if filing suit with a big legal org behind him.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-03-11 17:43|| 2014-03-11 17:43|| Front Page Top

#9 If intimidated by Cummings works with Issa, the people intimidated by the IRS have no hope for help from DC left with this regime.

Posted by Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-03-11 18:24|| 2014-03-11 18:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Some of her emails have been released. She was in it up to her eyebrows.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-03-11 19:32|| 2014-03-11 19:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Concern Citizens United hurting Democrats: Lerner believed the Executive Branch needed to take steps to undermine the Supreme Courts Citizens United decision. A senior advisor to Lerner e-mailed her an article about allegations that unknown conservative donors were influencing U.S. Senate races. The article explained how outside money was making it increasingly difficult for Democrats to remain in the majority in the Senate. Lerner replied: Perhaps the FEC will save the day. p. 21.
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Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-03-11 19:46|| 2014-03-11 19:46|| Front Page Top

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