• Ranking Member of House Oversight Committee Elijah Cummings Accuses Chairman Darrel Issa of Violatin
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[quote=Washington Post] Opposing leaders on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee lined up legal arguments Wednesday for a potential fight over whether former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner should be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the panel. The committee’s top Democrat, Rep.Elijah Cummings (Md.), said in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) that Republicans have already botched any plans they might have for contempt actions against Lerner, who headed an IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. Cummings, citing opinions from two legal experts and "Supreme Court case law," said Republicans cannot pursue contempt charges against Lerner because of how the committee’s chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), abruptly adjourned a hearing with the former official last week. The letter said Issa "failed to take the basic — but Constitutionally required — steps necessary to hold [Lerner] in contempt," since the chairman ended the hearing without overruling Lerner’s Fifth Amendment assertion and without "clearly directing her to answer the committee’s questions."[/quote] [img]http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2014/03/06/Foreign/Images/476764565.jpg[/img] [i]Douchebag chairman in question.[/i] The House is voting right now to force Issa to apologize for "repeated abuses" of his power.
[QUOTE=PolarEventide;44227221]The House is voting right now to force Issa to apologize for "repeated abuses" of his power.[/QUOTE]How about just tossing the prick out.
I can't believe Republicans are still trying to build a mountain out of the IRS molehill. Well, I can believe it, but that doesn't make it any less idiotic.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;44227829]I can't believe Republicans are still trying to build a mountain out of the IRS molehill. Well, I can believe it, but that doesn't make it any less idiotic.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://oversight.house.gov/report/staff-report-lois-lerners-involvement-irs-targeting-tax-exempt-organizations/"]Oversight Committee report says otherwise....[/URL]
I was watching cspan about a hour ago now and it was hilarious lots of reps were holding pictures of him while trying to get the house to pass an amendment to make him give a public apology. Also you forgot source.
[QUOTE=Aide;44227900]I was watching cspan about a hour ago now and it was hilarious lots of reps were holding pictures of him while trying to get the house to pass an amendment to make him give a public apology.[/QUOTE] And the speaker was yelling that they were violating House decorum, but he wasn't able to cite the rule until three minutes later, because he had no clue what he was doing.
The moment when Rep. Cummings angrily shouted out "I am a congressman for the United States of America", or some such, really gave a telling clue about who was the asshole here. When Issa doesn't even give someone else the opportunity to make a point, much less an actual valid argument compared to the farce that he was trying to pull, I can see the weight behind stating your position as a representative take a pitfall. When I was growing up people from the government were always seen as people who did everything they could to be informed on an issue and make the right decision, or people who took the time to carefully consider all of their options before choosing what they thought was the best one, but in this scenario there is almost no train of thought that puts Issa in the right. I guess either I was lied to all these years or the quality of our representatives has fallen to extreme lows.
Yeah, Our political system is a joke. Big money tends to bring idiots into politics. And Issa is one of those idiots.
one of the (relative) few members of Congress from CA (most blue state in the union) being an asshat.
[QUOTE=willer;44227923]The moment when Rep. Cummings angrily shouted out "I am a congressman for the United States of America", or some such, really gave a telling clue about who was the asshole here. When Issa doesn't even give someone else the opportunity to make a point, much less an actual valid argument compared to the farce that he was trying to pull, I can see the weight behind stating your position as a representative take a pitfall. When I was growing up people from the government were always seen as people who did everything they could to be informed on an issue and make the right decision, or people who took the time to carefully consider all of their options before choosing what they thought was the best one, but in this scenario there is almost no train of thought that puts Issa in the right. I guess either I was lied to all these years or the quality of our representatives has fallen to extreme lows.[/QUOTE] You were lied too. After the 50's, everything just went slowly down hill with peaks of good in between. We're only now probably going to start a slow climb back up because of what will only amount to increasing political unrest as people finally realize how much they've been fucking us all these years. Republicans kinda ruined everything, though not exclusively their fault.
The 50's weren't even that great unless you were a middle or upper class white person. [editline]13th March 2014[/editline] Well, it was pretty good for the US government in terms of world influence and trade, but as far as political representation they had their own issues at the time.
Basically we've been lied to since forever.
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