'We have a problem with you, and you have a problem maintaining your credibility': House Republicans

Daily Mail ^ | 6/23/14 | David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor

[Nachum]

Republicans dropped a hammer on IRS Commissioner John Koskinen during a testy hearing covering the disappearance of emails tied to the agency's tea party targeting scandal.

The emails, covering the period January 2009 to April 2011, belonged to embattled former official Lois Lerner and could shed light on whether an expansive scheme to single out conservative groups for special scrutiny was guided by members of Congress or administration officials outside the IRS.

'The committee requested all of Lois Lerner’s emails over a year ago,' said House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa. 'And we subpoenaed the emails in August 2013 and again in February 2014. ... You worked to cover up the fact they were missing and only came forward to fess up on a Friday afternoon after you had been caught red-handed.'

'You personally did not cause the targeting,' he told Koskinen, referring to the tea party scandal. 'You personally did not destroy the emails. But by your actions and your deception, you now own this scandal.'

'We have a problem with you,' Issa sniped at the front end of a three-hour, 36-minute ordeal, 'and you have a problem maintaining your credibility.'

[NTHockey]

>>Oh, now you’ve done it. Suggesting action instead of words.

Prepare to be attacked on this thread.<<

I hope that was sarcasm. Otherwise, not only will nothing get done, but it will get worse.

[B4Ranch]

>>The joke is the Freepers on this board who badmouth any politician who is making some headway on any issue......

Maybe Issa won’t get anywhere but he is trying and has been for months.<<

Check the date on this post. My disgust with Issa is not new.

There’s not a chance in Hell that this is going anywhere. These people who have been elected to office so many times that they have become personal friends with the progressive communists on the other side of the aisle. They don’t want to cause a fuss that would cause some democrat not to be reelected because then they would have to go through a decade of training the newcomer in just how things DO NOT get done in Congress or the Congressional Committees.

it’s nice to think that they have integrity but those days are gone for good and the resulting collusion is bad.

13 posted on Thursday, May 26, 2011 10:24:30 AM by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)

[GeronL]

I don’t expect that this one will be any different from the last one hundred scandal hearings