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IRS villain Lois Lerner risks ARREST after pleading Fifth
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| 5 March 2014
| David Martosko
Posted on 03/05/2014 9:41:08 AM PST by Cheerio
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IRS villain Lois Lerner risks ARREST after pleading Fifth for a second time at IRS tea-party targeting hearing
The one-time head of the U.S. tax authority's branch overseeing nonprofits won't testify about a years-long scheme to target conservative groups
Congress has the power to hold her in contempt, try her and imprison her in the Capitol jail
That power hasn't been used in more than 75 years but used to be common in bribery and other cases
After the Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee quickly adjourned Wednesday's hearing, his Democratic counterpart went 'ballistic'
Former IRS official Lois Lerner refused for a second time on Wednesday to testify about her role in a scheme to target conservative organizations that applied for tax-exempt status during President Barack Obama's first term in office.
Lerner risks arrest if she is found in contempt of Congress.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: arrest; dems; irs; irsteapartyscandal; issa; loislerner; obama
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Anyone believing that? From the GOP leadership in the US House?
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:41:08 AM PST
by
Cheerio
To: Cheerio
IRS villain Lois Lerner risks ARREST after pleading FifthROTFLOL
Yeah, sure.
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:43:20 AM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: Cheerio
The GOP leadership loves the spectacle, but not the responsibility of actually doing anything.
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:44:24 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Cheerio
"Anyone believing that?"
I don't know - Issa seemed very, very angry.....
....Naaahhhh.
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:45:18 AM PST
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: Cheerio
This is all part of the war on women by those evil republicans...Blah, blah, blah.
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:45:42 AM PST
by
McGruff
(Every night has it's dawn.)
To: Cheerio
Yeah, that'll happen.
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:45:53 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If Barack Hussein Obama entertains a thought that he does not verbalize, is it still a lie?)
To: Cheerio
Yeah I agree. Enough with the show. What are they actually gonna do about it?
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:45:59 AM PST
by
Durbin
To: Cheerio
Hope her life insurance is paid up.
To: Cheerio
Darrell wouldn't DARE to do this.....but EVERY DEMOCRAT would do it in a second!! She NEEDS to be ARRESTED for what she did to SHOW the rest of the Liberals at IRS that they can't get away with what they have done!!
Obama is Law-Less because Republican "leaders" are BALL-LESS!!
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:46:55 AM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Cheerio
There’s hardly a ball amongst the lot of ‘em.
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:47:56 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:48:46 AM PST
by
xone
To: Cheerio
issa needs to do more than dismiss her.
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:49:01 AM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Ann Archy
Obama is Law-Less because Republican "leaders" are BALL-LESS!! That would sure make a great bumper sticker . . . or a tagline.
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:49:42 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Vigilanteman
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:50:18 AM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Cheerio
Well maybe if someone from the media would ask the question “Mr. Issa, will you be sending out deputies to arrest Ms. Lerner?”.....oh wait....Nevermind...
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:52:24 AM PST
by
uncitizen
(Impeach the Communist Already!)
To: Cheerio
Any rats in the Capital Jail? I mean, if there aren’t, I’d be happy to buy them some.....
To: Cheerio
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:54:31 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: Cheerio
Lerner just thumbed her nose at the republicans, urinated on their new living room rug and mooned them on the way out the door.
All on national TV.
But before the repubbies can arrest someone like Lerner they would have to find a least one person in the GOP leadership with a backbone.
Lots of luck on that one.....
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:54:38 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
(Albert Einstein: The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The sun will rise in the west before that happens.
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:55:33 AM PST
by
sport
To: Cheerio
Headline in today's issue of the Metropolis Daily Planet:
"LOIS LANE LERNER TRUMPS MEEK, MILD CLARK KENT ISSA - AGAIN!"
Leni
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