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Will the House arrest Lois Lerner? {NO}
The Hill ^ | 05/11/14 | Russell Berman

Posted on 05/11/2014 5:48:16 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey

The House has held Lois Lerner in contempt, but it won’t use its power to place the former IRS official under arrest, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said on Sunday.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boehnercontempt; cowardice
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To: MeshugeMikey

PLEASE tell me no one thought they would.


21 posted on 05/11/2014 6:00:59 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: FlingWingFlyer

DO we the people have any authority to MAKE a CITIZEN’S ARREST in such a case?

I would think we should.


22 posted on 05/11/2014 6:01:04 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Jane Long

next up the Ode to John Boehner in B

aka.... Brain Dead In Ohio!


23 posted on 05/11/2014 6:02:24 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: RIghtwardHo

I was holding out hope

without hope....were left with disgust ad finally despair

I refuse to despair.


25 posted on 05/11/2014 6:03:33 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: F15Eagle

empty jibber jabber wont get us anywhere

when is this flake up for re election?


26 posted on 05/11/2014 6:04:23 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: MeshugeMikey
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27 posted on 05/11/2014 6:05:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Why did they even bother with the contempt charge if they weren’t going to arrest her? What is any purpose for it then?


28 posted on 05/11/2014 6:05:26 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady (Is the GOP actually TRYING to lose in 2014 and 2016?)
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To: MeshugeMikey

People continuing to elect Republicans outside Cruz and about 2 others get what they deserve. And if he does not leave and lead people outside that snake pit there is no hope for him either. If Freepers continue to empower these idiots they are every bit responsible as a liberal for the destruction of America.

No more excuses.


29 posted on 05/11/2014 6:06:04 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: MeshugeMikey; Alamo-Girl
The House has held Lois Lerner in contempt, but it won’t use its power to place the former IRS official under arrest, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said on Sunday.

Well jeepers, MeshugeMikey, that's NO FUN at all.

Why is the House so reluctant to exercise its constitutional powers of arrest in this case — a case, if ever there were one, that deserved someone being arrested??? In this case, the "point person" of Executive malfeasance, Lois Lerner. She will tell you NOTHING unless severely pressed. Yet she is the one who can "point up the causal chain" to the White House itself.

I actually feel for the "poor woman." She was not the cause of these violations of First Amendment liberty, merely the enabler of them. If she indicates any willingness to speak at all directly and honestly, she is probably going to be thrown under the bus — or worse.

But she's' fighting for her pension at this point. So I expect her to be as recalcitrant in answering Congressman Gowdy's questions as possible.

And just let the Democrats "boycott" this Special Committee. You would think that they would understand that the public does not believe them to occupy the moral high ground as much as they would like to think. They better put some of their own on the Committee, if only to limit the destruction of their public reputation that the Committee might effect in their absence.

Some interesting elections lie ahead that should clarify these issues.

One just waits for the next shoe to drop.... Stay tuned!

31 posted on 05/11/2014 6:08:45 PM PDT by betty boop (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. —Thomas Jefferson)
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To: F15Eagle

hes a politician, not a statesman!!

we dont need any more politicians

we need to replace the politicians with Statesmen...AMATEURS who are not looking for a CAREER!

one term...two terms....and BACK HOME to plow the fields!!


32 posted on 05/11/2014 6:09:08 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: MeshugeMikey
I think they can only arrest her if she comes onto the grounds of the capitol. They can't go get her wherever.

But I could be wrong.

33 posted on 05/11/2014 6:09:16 PM PDT by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Spinlee wonder, even after surgery. They all have to go.


34 posted on 05/11/2014 6:09:58 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: betty boop

May 11......

Novembers just a few weeks away!!


35 posted on 05/11/2014 6:11:01 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: MeshugeMikey

“but it won’t use its power to place the former IRS official under arrest,”

Well of course not. This is nothing more than a show
trial. The dead giveaway is that the person that is
obviously behind it all is not on trial and not even
mentioned. That’s the Obama himself. And guess what, the
Benghazi trial will fare no better and will be just as
big a joke as this mascaraed. No one is going to jail
and no one is going to be held accountable for anything
this regime does.


38 posted on 05/11/2014 6:18:44 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: MeshugeMikey

Time to send in some vigilantes. Take this bitch to jail one way or another.

It’s boiling down to it.


39 posted on 05/11/2014 6:18:51 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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40 posted on 05/11/2014 6:18:58 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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