Politics: Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings loses his mind after Lois Lerner pleads the Fifth

Best of Cain ^ | March 5, 2014 | Robert Laurie

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Hissy fit! 

Moments ago, embattled ex-Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner appeared before Darrell Issa's House Oversight Committee. She was supposedly there to answer questions about the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups.  You may remember that President Obama has dismissed this entire scandal because he claims there wasn't "even a smidgen of corruption" involved. 

That's weird, because Lois Lerner promptly invoked her rights under the 5th Amendment and refused to answer any questions. For the record, the 5th Amendment is the one that deals with not offering testimony that might incriminate yourself.  You'd think that would be hard to do if the President's "not a smidgen" claim was true.

Anyway, there was no surprise here.  Everyone expected that - without immunity - this was exactly what Lerner would do. The interesting part came after she clammed up and a visibly frustrated Issa adjourned the hearing.

It seems ranking Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings had planned on doing some of his patented "inane grandstanding," and Issa derailed his intentions. Cummings would not be denied. First, he tried to pretend that he had a legitimate question, but then immediately launched into his standard set of rambling talking points. So, Issa dismissed everyone in the room and cut the power to Cummings' microphone. 

This triggered a meltdown that rivalled the Fukushima reactor. Seriously. Cummings completely lost it. 

"I AM A MEMBER OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA," He bellowed. "AND I AM TIRED OF THIS!!!" 

The video appears below.  You're going to love it.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Video in original.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

DANG!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Let’s not kid ourselves. This was all staged to turn what should be a huge Dem liability into a racial issue. “Look how Issa is disrespecting the black Congressman!!!!”

[SandRat]

Cummings lost his mind a long time ago.

[Starstruck]

Dude lost his mind long before this.

[LALALAW]

Cummings is just part of the criminal thug mob. Evil bastard creating a distraction from the real story. Lerner has engaged in criminal conduct. On behalf of whom. you ask. Obviously the One.

[Sarah Barracuda]

They are assuming Cummings had a mind to begin with

[jazusamo]

Elijah has a habit of this, he’s not the chairman and he’s often off his meds.

[COBOL2Java]

Let’s not kid ourselves. This was all staged to turn what should be a huge Dem liability into a racial issue. “Look how Issa is disrespecting the black Congressman!!!!”

"Mmm Hmmm!"

[Diogenesis]

Cummings is tied by emails to the coverup.

Either the crooks go to jail soon, or ...

[CMailBag]

Rush called him Stonewall Cummings today.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Writer is assuming that Cummings ever had a mind in the first place. He’s from Maryland where a “mind” is hindrance to elected office. Just look at the leftist, authoritarian Democrats they have elected to office in the past few years, starting with Marxist O’Malley and working your way down the food chain to the ground slugs.

[hoosiermama]

Who’s going to press charges? Where? In which court?

[ridesthemiles]

You cannot lose something you NEVER ever had.

[Howie66]

Really?

Isn’t one required to have a mind BEFORE one could lose their mind?

Am I missing something, here?

[shibumi]

Video right here -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsv6fmXu4gQ&feature=player_embedded

[Aevery_Freeman]

...Or what?

Do you think Boehner is going to appoint a select committee to investigate Lois Learner or Hillary Clinton?

Fat freaking chance! They are all so crooked none of them dare buck Obama.

Obama's blackness is a magic spell that causes our politicians to wet and our media to worship.

Turn your eyes to the Ukraine and witness our future: tyranny, terror and tribulations.

[CheneyClone]

Not proud to say that Cummings represents the district in which I live. I have been accused of being too critical of him in the past, including on FR. I take none of it back.

[LyinLibs]

GOP/Dems are panicked the public will learn of Lois Lerner’s role in establishing Malik Obama’s terrorist group(s) under 501(c)3 status.

Details:
HOW LOIS LERNER GAVE IRS APPROVAL TO MALIK OBAMA'S MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD TERROR GROUP

Malik (Obama’s claimed ‘brother’) is CFO of global Muslim Brotherhood.

Lois Lerner 'approved' Malik's domestic terror branch 501(c)3 in a hurry on a SUNDAY afternoon (!) while she blocked and persecuted TEA groups, demanding they 'Detail the content of their prayers' on IRS questionnaires.

US government (via Issa) put Lois Lerner on TV for 10 minutes so they can ‘Put this behind us’ and sweep the underlying (domestic/foreign) terror network under the rug.

If gov't waited till end of March, Arpaio is blowing the lid off Obama’s fake ID (forged BC proven; 7 stolen SSNs), thus scrutiny of Ubama crimes/terror sponsorship will skyrocket. Thus, Lerner must be ‘resolved’ before then.

But perhaps McCain/Issa will get to the bottom of this hahahahaaa... Because GOP respects Freedom of Religion and Political Expression, HAHAHAAAAAAAAAA....

[dennisw]

He does this stupid crap for the low information voters..... the black voters in particular see this as sticking it to the man. Or as a black man being denied his rights by whitey