Posted on 05/13/2014 12:00:18 PM PDT by Nachum
“This is the law. And every two years — let me tell you something. Every two years I come to the Congress, just like my good friend, Mr. Labrador, we put up our hands to swear to uphold the Constitution and the laws of this country. It is the law.”
That’s what Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings told Anderson Cooper last October. What was he talking about you may wonder. Was it the disastrous Fast and Furious scandal and the cover-up that followed? No, Rep. Cummings dismissed questions over the DOJ Attorney General Eric Hold’s role in the affair as “an election-year witch hunt”.
Was it about the unanswered questions about the Benghazi terrorist attack? No, you see Rep. Cummings already explained that “death is a part of life“, so that’s the end of that.
Could it have possibly been about the IRS targeting of conservative groups requesting non-profit status? Of course not, that case is solved apparently.
So what could that statement be about? It should be obvious, by now, you see Rep. Elijah Cummings was talking about the Affordable Care Act known in my circle as “Obama-don’t-care”. However, it’s a good thing that the esteemed and honorable gentleman pointed out that he has sworn to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the land, because it should make an excellent defense against potential charges against him for obstructing Oversight investigations.
Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or obstruct compliance, in whole or in part, with any civil investigative demand duly and properly made under the Antitrust Civil Process Act, willfully withholds, misrepresents, removes from any place, conceals, covers up, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means falsifies any documentary material, answers to written interrogatories, or oral testimony, which is the subject of such demand; or attempts to do
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Don't you read the news??.../s
We should have understood back then...but NOOOOO!...who's the compassionate people again??...I'm getting old....
bkmk
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