Posted on 05/06/2014 9:46:21 AM PDT by Nachum
The House of Representatives will vote today, Tuesday, at 5 pm on whether to hold former head of tax exempt groups at the IRS Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress. Lerner was voted in contempt by the House Oversight Committee back in April after failing to answer questions from lawmakers. Many argue Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights last year because she made an opening statement declaring her innocence before claiming she wanted to remain silent.
And the reputation of the house (very small h intended) rests in the balance.
If they screw the pooch on this one and let that lying wench loose, what little respect exists for that at collection of losers will evaporate.
(As for the senate, we’d be much aided if a meteor would wipe them out. All of them.)
Except Ted Cruz.
While Cruz and Lee are in the restroom.
I’d say wake me when something is actually done to the criminal, but I don’t want to end up as Rumpelstiltskin.
We known the RATs won’t break ranks, the only question is how many GOPers will vote to let her off the hook....
Yawn. This will amount to nothing, and we all know it. Just like Issa’s big show over Fast and Furious. NADA.
lerner should be in jail. waterboard the bietch. Her retirement benefits should not be paid. she is a criminal and terrorist needs to be treated as one.
Jeff Sessions deserves saving.
This vote will be a good way to determine if Republicans are willing to lead. If they decide no, then they shouldn’t expect any votes in November.
Probably go strictly along party lines.
Lerner has too much dirt on Obama, she will never be punished..
I’m really looking forward to this summer! Democrats running around screaming and hiding. Watching the Democrats is like watching The Three Stooges. Which Democrat gets clunked in the head next?
Why the 5:00 p.m. timing? That’s near the peak of the daily news cycle. Will any network cover the votes as they’re recorded?
If the pubbies DO vote to hold Lerner in contempt, it’ll be breaking news, we now join in progress, stop the presses.
Curious timing, IMO.
The Senate as now constituted is not as the Founders set it up. With passage of the 17th Amendment, States were required to popularly elect their Senators, rather than have them chosen by their states' legislatures, as was done until 1914.
What has developed is collection of multi-millionaires who have become so at taxpayers expense and are self-perpetuating based on the funds spent to re-elect them. They are much harder to remove without the oversight of the state legislatures.
This amendment also removed a key power of the sovereign states. If a state legislator with a two-year term hears from his constituents, who are few in number and hold his career in their hands, he is much more apt to discipline a Senator who acts against the interests of the citizens of a sovereign state.
Today's Republican Senators act directly against the wishes of their constituents on many issues. The way to bring these dogs to heel is to hold a Constitutional Convention of the States, as described in the constitution itself.
If Senators were elected by their legislatures, as they should be, there would immediately be a more conservative Senate. That's because even the worst Liberal states tend to have at least some conservative legislators,i.e. those usually elected from more rural rather than the urban districts populated by state-dependent minority voters. Case in point: New York State.
The Founders saw the Senate as a more mature, more conservative deliberative body, designed to hold in check any excesses engendered by a radical House!
Perp walk her.
We can always count on the usual suspects to vote with the RATS. Just watch.
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