Thursday, March 20, 2014

Lois Lerner will talk and will likely perp walk, it's just a matter of when. And lefties should hope she does because the alternative is much, much worse.

You can stonewall Congress for a time but eventually as Shakespeare said: 'murder will out' - the truth will come out.  The left and their press shit-zus and toy poodles hope that the truth will come out later rather than sooner so they can sneer at it in the Clintonian formulation of 'old news'.  But the Obami explicitly targeted their political enemies in ways that enhanced his probability of reelection.  They screwed with the fundamental legitimacy of the state by screwing with the electoral efforts of hundreds of groups.

This is a crime as bad or worse than any third rate break in.  And the yapping obama lap dogs know it, they are desperate to stonewall this thing for as long as possible.  Jim Jordan was the chief counsel of the House Oversight committee which is responsible for making sure that the IRS and other agencies don't descend into political criminality.  They've been stonewalled.  Here's his point of view from the WSJ.

When Ms. Lerner appeared before Congress in May 2013, she made this statement: "I have done nothing wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations." But Ms. Lerner, we discovered, forwarded confidential taxpayer information to her personal email account in early May 2013, which is a violation of IRS rules. About the infamous "Be on the Lookout" targeting list—a document used to identify conservative groups for additional scrutiny—she told Congress that the criteria for screening tax-exempt groups for extra scrutiny never changed. In fact, she personally ordered it changed in July 2011 according to documents and testimony received by the committee.

Ms. Lerner was most certainly driven by politics. One email of June 11, 2011, shows that she directed her subordinate to focus on the issues surrounding the application of Karl Rove's group, Crossroads GPS. In another email of Feb. 1, 2011, she frets about the Supreme Court "overturning the ban on corporate spending" as it applies to nonprofits. (Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission also overturned the ban on union political spending, but she expressed no concern about that.)

Emails and testimony that we confronted Ms. Lerner with showed her saying that the tea party is "very dangerous," ordering a "multitiered review" (read: delay) of the cases, and managing the optics of her operation so it would not be revealed as a political project.

Last May, and again on March 5 of this year, Ms. Lerner refused to answer the committee's questions about the IRS treatment of tax-exempt groups, asserting her right under the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination. Yet we learned on March 6 in reporting by this newspaper that she had previously given an interview to the Justice Department and, according to her lawyer, spoke with no grant of immunity.

Ms. Lerner's lawyer claims she gave an interview to the Justice Department because she did not believe the Oversight Committee would treat her fairly. More likely, the reason is because Justice is friendly territory. The lead investigator is a substantial Obama campaign contributor, and Justice has already leaked that it doesn't expect to prosecute anyone. As to the claim that liberal groups were also victimized, our committee investigation has yet to hear from a single progressive group that received the systematic scrutiny and harassment faced by the tea party and other conservative groups


This is a big deal for if we can't count on our political opponents to play fair with the machinery of government when they control it then why should we ever accept an adverse election result again? Losing an election is becoming more like losing in the old Roman Republic:  stripped of immunity, stripped of protection, the losers were in political terms (or sometimes real terms) dead men.  So losers stopped accepting the electoral outcomes and started fighting in the streets.  And then the Legions got involved.

 We are not anywhere near that but with the Obami misusing the IRS, rewriting law after law without Congressional approval and putting forth novel concepts of what the executive can do without Congress, a breakdown can happen quickly, so quickly that people don't realize it until it's too late.  But I want to be clear:  it is my conviction based upon the people that I know well that we on the right will not tolerate this blatant misuse of state power in the interest of left wing electoral success.  The Obami chose and their yappy pets cheered, but we - if need be - will dispose to save the Republic from these left fascists.

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