March 05, 2014

Lois Lerner Takes the Fifth for the Second Time; Elijah Cummings Explodes, Calling the Proceedings "Unamerican;" Daryl Issa Cuts Off His Mike
— Ace

Some Partisan Theater for your morning enjoyment. Video at the link (Mediaite), or below.

Issa asked Cummings if he had any questions for the Fifth-pleading witness, Lois Lerner. Instead of asking a question, Cummings offered another rant. Issa asked him to yield, and Cummings refused, so Issa turned off his microphone and called for an adjournment. Cummings continued to rant (turning off his microphone had little effect given that he was yelling).

Buzzfeed's takeaway will be Issa's "cut him off' gesture, drawing his hand across the neck.

I'm pretty sure that's racist.


While making a statement before the committee, Issa stood up and asked Cummings to yield.

“If you will sit down and allow me to ask a question,” Cummings insisted. “I am a member of a Congress of the United States of America.”

“I am tired of this,” he continued. “You cannot just have a one-sided investigation. There is absolutely something wrong with that, and it is absolutely un-American.”

USA Today adds this:

In response to a series of pointed questions from Issa, Lerner repeatedly said, "On the advice of my counsel, I respectfully exercise my Fifth Amendment right and decline to answer that question."

After less than 15 minutes, Issa adjourned the hearing. "I can see no point in going further," he said.

When the ranking Democrat on the panel, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, tried to ask a question, Issa told Republicans on the committee they could leave and the hearing was over.

"Shame, shame," Democrats called out.

Hot Air adds this explanation from Issa:

“He was actually slandering me at the moment that the mics did go off by claiming that this had not been a real investigation.”

Video stolen from Hot Air below.

(I hope @drewmtips pardons the light stompening, but I figure people want to discuss this.)

Posted by: Ace at 06:54 AM | Comments (309)
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1 They have already said she can not take the 5th after making a political statement since that is testimony.  They should now hit her with criminal contempt.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 05, 2014 06:57 AM (T2V/1)

2 Lois Lerner, who kicked off this fiasco by leaking the results of an already biased investigation, inferring it was only conservative groups being targeted? Something keeps telling me Lerner is a Bush administration mole, one of those appointees who quickly shuffled into protected jobs when the clown party ended. ---- SMFH. Comment at TPM.

Posted by: RWC at March 05, 2014 06:57 AM (fWAjv)

3 Kudos to Issa for making the resident Obama apologist shut his stupid ass mouth.

Posted by: Establishment RINO at March 05, 2014 06:58 AM (ofmrm)

4 Bring out the waterboarding.

Posted by: berserker lurker at March 05, 2014 06:58 AM (8k6km)

5 Why was she not hauled off in cuffs for contempt of Congress?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at March 05, 2014 06:58 AM (VtjlW)

6

When the ranking Democrat on the panel, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, tried to ask a question, Issa told Republicans on the committee they could leave and the hearing was over.

 

Cute.   "Tried to ask a question" is apparently the same as "decided to go off on a partisan rant."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 05, 2014 06:59 AM (4df7R)

7 The only reason Cummings is there is the racist gerrymandering of black majority districts.  He couldn't be elected dog catcher in a competitive district.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 05, 2014 06:59 AM (T2V/1)

8 Reposting my tweet summary of the hearing bec On Topical: Lois Lerner gives Congress the finger, Elijah Cummings attempts to moon Darrell Issa. Issa tells Cummings to pull his pants up.

Posted by: Votermom at March 05, 2014 06:59 AM (GSIDW)

9

I hope @drewmtips pardons the light stompening, but I figure people want to discuss this.

 

With respect, Ace, what is there to discuss?  Unless and until people start going to jail, this is nothing but posturing and bukkake.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 05, 2014 06:59 AM (zF6Iw)

10 What is fkn un American is using Govt apparatchiks to intimidate half the countries citizens!

Posted by: willow at March 05, 2014 06:59 AM (nqBYe)

11 Lerner was then arrested and frog marched, yes?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 05, 2014 06:59 AM (da5Wo)

12 Why was she not hauled off in cuffs for contempt of Congress?


Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at March 05, 2014 10:58 AM (VtjlW)

 

 

Possibly because   AG Holder   is still in contempt of     Congress himself, and   still looks fresh as a daisy?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 05, 2014 06:59 AM (4df7R)

13

One-sided un-American political investigations?

 

That's OUR job, Issa!  Back off!

Posted by: The IRS at March 05, 2014 07:00 AM (CMbMd)

14 This is all very boring now.


When are we going to start kicking some ass?


WHEN?!?!?


Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 07:00 AM (GQ8sn)

15
You cannot just have a one-sided investigation. There is absolutely something wrong with that, and it is absolutely un-American.


-----

O_O

Posted by: Scooter Libby at March 05, 2014 07:00 AM (nELVU)

16 Bukake: Because it's all fun and games until someone takes a load to the eye.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) Est. 1836 at March 05, 2014 07:01 AM (Kh+vp)

17 Also, I tweeted Issa that Lerner is treating him the way Putin treats Obama. (For the same reason. GOP weak weak weak)

Posted by: Votermom at March 05, 2014 07:01 AM (GSIDW)

18 alex, because they are afforded all rights Plus a few we didn't know about! just doing what my boss tells me to do ! and if i do it right. i will have security all my days.

Posted by: willow at March 05, 2014 07:01 AM (nqBYe)

19 LL need to be given a choice, make a deal to spill the beans and tell Issa where to find the smoking gun, or be in contempt of congress and sit in a cell. And the most important question before all of this takes place: you claim your life and that of your family has been threatened so now tell us who is making these threats?

Posted by: Angel with a sword at March 05, 2014 07:01 AM (hpgw1)

20

I think we all would like this to be more than a one-sided investigation, but a government employee keeps taking the fifth when asked about the work she's doing on behalf of the US Government, and one party in Congress is utterly uninterested in joining in to investigate why.

 

So Cummings pretending to fret about a one-sided investigation rings pretty fucking hollow to me.  Kind of like the kid who killed his parents then complained about being an orphan.

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 05, 2014 07:01 AM (eytER)

21 Thanks to the "nood" people I no longer get lost in the wrong thread like a window-licker. Thanks, "nood" people. As for any other issues, talk to my attorney and eat me bitchez. Da fif'!

Posted by: Beagle at March 05, 2014 07:01 AM (sOtz/)

22 Fuck Lois Lerner, Fuck Cummings. Hang 'em, hang 'em high.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 05, 2014 07:02 AM (HVff2)

23 He's right - holding government accountable for targeting and suppressing its citizens is unamerican at this point.

Posted by: gm at March 05, 2014 07:02 AM (K0tm3)

24 Issa punks Cummings.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 07:03 AM (aDwsi)

25 Something tells me being in contempt of Congress is seen as a badge of honor for those in this administration. Ain't no thing. (did I get that colloquialism correct?)

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 05, 2014 07:03 AM (RZ8pf)

26 I'm going to make an ass out of myself and hope nobody talks about the three letters of intimidation I sent to that blue eyed she devil in Texas.

Posted by: Elijah Cummings at March 05, 2014 07:03 AM (Aif/5)

27 Why was she not hauled off in cuffs for contempt of Congress? ---- I don't think this is quite the threat we wish it were.

Posted by: SH at March 05, 2014 07:03 AM (gmeXX)

28 So does this mean that Lois gets her job back?

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at March 05, 2014 07:03 AM (RFeQD)

29 She asked for immunity and they said no.. that's what I want to know.. why?  She obviously has something to say.  Am I just naive?

Posted by: jewells45 at March 05, 2014 07:04 AM (l/N7H)

30 are we srsly going to keep going on like this? all this is still going on! we have any LAWFUL solutions for justice against this beast?

Posted by: willow at March 05, 2014 07:04 AM (nqBYe)

31 Cite her with contempt, throw her in jail, and threaten to keep her there until she testifies.

Posted by: Blor-Utar at March 05, 2014 07:05 AM (WqkMb)

32 Lotsa Democrats using the word "un-American" these days... I remember that when people didn't use the term "un-American" they were accused of mind-thinking it and then stifling dissent. But that was during the Bush years. In the beforetime.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 05, 2014 07:05 AM (T0NGe)

33 @25 Thing should be thang probably. I pre-denounce my neocolonial privileged microaggression.

Posted by: Beagle at March 05, 2014 07:05 AM (sOtz/)

34 Criminal contempt is punishable by 5 years and/or $5,000 fine.  And over the years there have been many who were actually convicted.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 05, 2014 07:05 AM (T2V/1)

35 If there isn't a smidgen of wrongdoing, nor criminal issues, the 5th doesn't seem like here best option. This is testimony and shows an understanding of the 5th that must have been gleaned from Dave Chappelle.

Posted by: AMDG at March 05, 2014 07:05 AM (t7OO0)

36 Posted by: jewells45 at March 05, 2014 11:04 AM (l/N7H) You aren't naïve. Its just that Washington is Washington and you and I are serfs and do not have the same rights or privileges as the ruling elite. I spit

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 05, 2014 07:05 AM (HVff2)

37 She asked for immunity and they said no.. that's what I want to know.. why? She obviously has something to say. Am I just naive? ------------- Why give her immunity if she isn't going to offer anything meaningful? They want to know what she will say before they offer immunity.

Posted by: SH at March 05, 2014 07:05 AM (gmeXX)

38 This seems strange to me. Is this part of Issa's plan to get her to testify? "Spill the beans or I haul you up to the Hill every two weeks or so to plead the Fifth?" Not much of a plan...

Posted by: joncelli at March 05, 2014 07:05 AM (RD7QR)

39 Can they not jail     her for contempt of congresss?

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 05, 2014 07:06 AM (eoeps)

40 She asked for immunity and they said no.. -- Give her immunity and she's just gonna take the fall for Obama/Jarrett, imo. Probably get a big payday too,

Posted by: Votermom at March 05, 2014 07:06 AM (GSIDW)

41 and who said she has had threats made against her? and who made threats? is their actual proof?

Posted by: willow at March 05, 2014 07:06 AM (nqBYe)

42 un-American is using the IRS as a political tool to attack your opponents.

You want to know why people are frustrated with the GOP?-Here you go.

Not only have Republicans allowed Democrats to change congressional rules without consequence and provided no response to executive branch overreach that is stealing power from the people, but they've allowed abuses such as this to go substantively unanswered and traded it for theater.

How about Republicans forgo the drama and actually stand up to the bullies for a change? Hmmm?

Pussies.

Posted by: Marcus T. Who just, well, ugh. at March 05, 2014 07:06 AM (GGCsk)

43 Cite her for criminal contempt and send her to Columbia for trial next week.  I'll be on the jury then.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 05, 2014 07:06 AM (T2V/1)

44

29: "She asked for immunity and they said no.. that's what I want to know.. why? She obviously has something to say. Am I just naive?"

 

I think she want's to pull a Vick Mackey. Get immunity for all her misdeeds, keep her pension and benefits, all while providing nothing of use to Issa.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) Est. 1836 at March 05, 2014 07:06 AM (/qzu7)

45 Criminal contempt is punishable by 5 years and/or $5,000 fine. And over the years there have been many who were actually convicted. ------ Yes, but Congress does not get to be the prosecutor and judge.

Posted by: SH at March 05, 2014 07:07 AM (gmeXX)

46 Just caught the Lois "I Fear For My Life" Lerner story the other day.

Maybe it's because Loretta Fuddy died under mysterious circumstances? 

I was surprised I hadn't heard about Ms. Fuddy's death here at HQ.

Posted by: Mister Christopher at March 05, 2014 07:07 AM (uI7aJ)

47

O/T, because I f'd up on the morning thread -

 

Tuesday was Pearl White's birthday.  Today is the 92nd anniversary of the premiere of Nosferatu,  The Vampire in 1922

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 05, 2014 07:07 AM (zF6Iw)

48 there*

Posted by: willow at March 05, 2014 07:07 AM (nqBYe)

49 Vic as jury foreman, awesome.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 05, 2014 07:07 AM (HVff2)

50

Cummings was going for that Joseph Welch ‘Have you no decency’ effect, when Welch called out Joseph McCarthy and contributed to McCarthy’s loss of credibility. Issa, a supremely intelligent and perceptive man, saw what Cummings was doing and cut him off.

 

The Democrats are trying desperately to portray this as a McCarthy-like witch hunt even though Lerner is clearly guilty, guilty, guilty of using the IRS as a political enforcement and intimidation arm of the Obama Administration. Cummings did what he did cynically, purposefully, because Democrats are sleazy operators. ThatÂ’s who they are, what they do.

 

A comparative moderate, Issa gets a lot of heat from conservatives for his squishiness on several core issues. It should be pointed out that heÂ’s a California Republican, which is kinda sorta the equivalent of an Indiana Democrat. I cut him slack on that score. Representing California, Issa can be hardly be a Ted Cruz or Rick Perry Republican and expect to keep his seat.

Posted by: troyriser at March 05, 2014 07:07 AM (gNlvW)

51 Something tells me being in contempt of Congress is seen as a badge of honor for those in this administration party. FIFY Recall that when Clinton's impeachment hearings were over, they held a party in the Rose Garden. They are beneath contempt. It is time they were treated that way Good job Issa.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 07:08 AM (aDwsi)

52 This seems strange to me. Is this part of Issa's plan to get her to testify? "Spill the beans or I haul you up to the Hill every two weeks or so to plead the Fifth?" Not much of a plan... ---- Actually, it isn't a bad one. It is political theater. Keeps it in the news. Having her just sit in jail doesn't really do Issa much good.

Posted by: SH at March 05, 2014 07:08 AM (gmeXX)

53 Yes but I think she did have something meaningful  to say and they said no anyway.  To get to the heart of the matter I would have granted it to her but that's just me.  A lowly serf.

Posted by: jewells45 at March 05, 2014 07:08 AM (l/N7H)

54

"Not even a smidgen of corruption."

 

 

"On the advice of my counsel, I am invoking my Fifth Amendment rights."

 

 

Well whaddya know?  I guess it is raining on my leg after  all.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 05, 2014 07:08 AM (BAS5M)

55 With respect, Ace, what is there to discuss? Unless and until people start going to jail, this is nothing but posturing and bukkake. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 05, 2014 10:59 AM (zF6Iw) Yay! You spelled kabuki right! You may have this Myrna Loy: http://bit.ly/1fH2jC2

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at March 05, 2014 07:08 AM (VtjlW)

56 AlextheChick for our disaster movie.  Have a Lois Lerner type be the Oracle.  One who misleeds.  And the irate people throw her into the volcano.  Which then burps and incinerates everyone.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 07:09 AM (/8lfu)

57 So was she arrested? No? Yeah, this went about exactly as I thought it would go. The Reps got played and now they'll have to deal with the MSM's bullshit treatment of the story.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 05, 2014 07:09 AM (gBnkX)

58 Lerner ought to be in fear of pitchforks & torches.

Posted by: Votermom at March 05, 2014 07:09 AM (GSIDW)

59 Well whaddya know? I guess it is raining on my leg after all. Posted by: Count de Monet at March 05, 2014 11:08 AM (BAS5M) Yellow rain, I take it?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 05, 2014 07:09 AM (HVff2)

60 Of course the takeaway from the MSM is that Issa gave the "off with his head" hand gesture in order to cut off Cummings' microphone. That was a racist gesture, redolent of the days when slave owners routinely beheaded uppity slaves for the most minor  infractions. Issa is a racist slaveholder. Better yet, he's an Arab slave trader....

Posted by: JoeyBagels at March 05, 2014 07:10 AM (LYk14)

61 Give Cummings 3 IQ points and take away his corruption completely and he will be the equal to my Jack Russel.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at March 05, 2014 07:10 AM (zllbf)

62 At this point, what does it really matter ? Go Galt now, while you still have something worth saving.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 05, 2014 07:10 AM (gUoN4)

63 Yes but I think she did have something meaningful to say and they said no anyway. ---- If she did, they would have granted her immunity, don't you think? Based on what has happened, I don't think she has anything to offer. That could be because she really doesn't have anything or is willing to take the fall. It dosen't really matter. You can't just let this end with her, so don't give her the opportunity.

Posted by: SH at March 05, 2014 07:10 AM (gmeXX)

64 RE:  Lerner, Sharkman pines for the Good Old Days (the witness was "Shot While Trying to Escape").

Posted by: Sharkman at March 05, 2014 07:11 AM (TM1p8)

65 After the election I'll have more flexibility to shut down this investigation.

Posted by: John "Deeply Closeted" Boehner at March 05, 2014 07:11 AM (JQuNB)

66

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at March 05, 2014 11:08 AM (VtjlW)

 

You are most kind, Imperial One.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 05, 2014 07:11 AM (zF6Iw)

67 Hmmm.... Why is this like the ending of the movie Spartacus? Except now it not "I am Spartacus"... its everyone saying... "I an contempt of Congress"

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 05, 2014 07:12 AM (84gbM)

68 You may have this Myrna Loy: http://bit.ly/1fH2jC2 Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at March 05, 2014 11:08 AM (VtjlW) *ahem* Excellent picture. Several...less than wholesome...thoughts just ran through my head.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 05, 2014 07:12 AM (da5Wo)

69 Cummings is a disgrace, grandstanding and playing interference for Obama and Holder.

Posted by: JoeyBagels at March 05, 2014 07:13 AM (LYk14)

70 From Russia some strange love for BCochran.  Plus help MWR with da Russian accent. 

http://youtu.be/F0k-OWxInG4

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 07:14 AM (/8lfu)

71 Maybe they should've got Seth Rogan to testify to balance things out.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 05, 2014 07:14 AM (gBnkX)

72 Better yet, he's an Arab slave trader.... Posted by: JoeyBagels at March 05, 2014 11:10 AM (LYk14) Whoa! Whoa! *doing the same mike-cutting gesture*

Posted by: MSM, Hollywood, and Education at March 05, 2014 07:14 AM (sOtz/)

73 61 Give Cummings 3 IQ points and take away his corruption completely and he will be the equal to my Jack Russel.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at March 05, 2014 11:10 AM (zllbf)

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mmmm

Your dog FTW

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 07:15 AM (aUQgu)

74 I'm torn on this.  I don't really think any political stuff should be tax deductible for contributions even True the Vote and other groups that really are completely non-partisan.   The rules would be re-written so that Soros can't use tax sheltered money to lobby to increase his evil empire if I got to be in charge. 

Posted by: PaleRider at March 05, 2014 07:16 AM (vL0Nv)

75 Party's been aver awhile and somebody already turned out the lights. At this point we're only arguing over who gets stuck with the utility bill.

Posted by: Guy who posts tortured metaphors at March 05, 2014 07:16 AM (gBnkX)

76 She asked for immunity and they said no.. that's what I want to know.. why? She obviously has something to say. Am I just naive?

Posted by: jewells45 at March 05, 2014 11:04 AM (l/N7H)3

----


My understanding is they asked Lerners attorney for a proffer on what she would testify to.... but they arent wanting to do that.

Posted by: Scooter Libby at March 05, 2014 07:16 AM (nELVU)

77 Ugg sock off

Posted by: fixerupper at March 05, 2014 07:16 AM (nELVU)

78 Fuck Elijah Cummings. Hell is too good for him.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 05, 2014 07:17 AM (euACX)

79 Youse wingnuts act like she was providing Hairy Reed and Al Grayson with little boys from her dude ranch or sump'n.  Get a grip.

Posted by: They Call the Wind Elijah at March 05, 2014 07:17 AM (KQp38)

80 My guess???? she was going to talk... but someone had a little 'talk' with her... Said something like... "consequences... ask Ron Brown... or Vince Foster...'

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 05, 2014 07:17 AM (84gbM)

81 Do you think anyone in the press is going to ask Cummings what the hell he meant when he said "you can't have a one sided investigation"? I sure as hell don't know what he's talking about.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 05, 2014 07:17 AM (IV4od)

82

Didn't teh Gowdy promise to put her in irons? 

 

I fell for it.  I'm a moron.  (Not the good kind).

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at March 05, 2014 07:17 AM (A0sHn)

83 61 Give Cummings 3 IQ points and take away his corruption completely and he will be the equal to my Jack Russel.
***

His district obviously sent their best and brightest.  Baltimore's Crime Index these days is an impressive "4".   For those of you paying attention, Chicago is an "8". 

Posted by: B at March 05, 2014 07:17 AM (5OEha)

84 61-which would make him the equivalent of the rest of the CBC.

Posted by: ejo at March 05, 2014 07:17 AM (GXvSO)

85 From the sidebar about Boner John. I thought that the difference between Tea Partiers and the GOPe was tactics, not goals. Looks to me like Boner John didn't get that memo.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 05, 2014 07:17 AM (Hx5uv)

86 Posted by: They Call the Wind Elijah at March 05, 2014 11:17 AM (KQp3 Yeah... it wasn't like she was gong at the very heart of the idea we are a fair Democracy, by silencing political opponents, during an Election... Oh.... wait...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 05, 2014 07:18 AM (84gbM)

87 Just jail her. She can't have given testimony and THEN decide to claim the Fifth.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 05, 2014 07:19 AM (MhA4j)

88 I continue to wonder why Gregory Roseman is being given a pass? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqAt5itCwUA

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 07:19 AM (aDwsi)

89 60--I should have read the whole story before commenting.  And yes, "Issa" is Arabic for Jesus.

Posted by: JoeyBagels at March 05, 2014 07:19 AM (LYk14)

90

*rubbing temples*

 

This is OT, but France is seriously a caricature of itself at this point.

 

Strauss-Kahn best man to replace France's Hollande, says leaked poll

France24: http://tinyurl.com/pepxpjg

 

Disgraced former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the most qualified to replace France’s unpopular president, François Hollande, according to a shock survey French newspaper Le Parisien chose not to publish.

 

Asked which French politician they trusted to run the economy, 56% of those surveyed named the 64-year-old former head of the International Monetary Fund, whose political career has been ruined by a string of sex scandals and criminal allegations.

 

Alain Juppé, a former foreign minister, came second with 53%, while former president Nicolas Sarkozy pooled 49%...

 

 

Sure.   Because France is already a place where sex scandals make you MORE popular, so let's just toss    DSK into the   mix again.   After all,  he was head of the IMF!   So he knows money and shit!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 05, 2014 07:19 AM (4df7R)

91 And meanwhile, as I said to my husband repeatedly, call me when people start going to jail. Until then, I find it hard to give a shit about this dog and pony show where the Democrats seem to be required to act like fools in court and hold up a legitimate process. They should all be arrested and jailed as well. So sick of this shit

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 05, 2014 07:19 AM (euACX)

92 These teabagger show trials are becoming an embarrassment. We need to focus on amnesty and shoring up Obamacare. The nation demands it!

Posted by: John "Deeply Closeted" Boehner at March 05, 2014 07:20 AM (JQuNB)

93 "Didn't teh Gowdy promise to put her in irons?" I don't think he promised, but he did strongly suggest it. The only thing that wasn't utterly predictable on this was which Democrat was going to go full retard.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 05, 2014 07:20 AM (gBnkX)

94 78 Fuck Elijah Cummings. Hell is too good for him.

Au contraire!  We will make sure it is very good for him.

Posted by: Satan at March 05, 2014 07:20 AM (zllbf)

95 Cummings sure seemed to know what was going to happen, seemed to be reading some "prepared remarks".

Posted by: booter at March 05, 2014 07:20 AM (XZCy1)

96 MWR, the French elites are going "can there be any downside after Hollande and his two mistresses with this guy?"

And they are telling themselves, "Non."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 07:20 AM (/8lfu)

97 Yes, but Congress does not get to be the prosecutor and judge. Posted by: SH at March 05, 2014 11:07 AM (gmeXX) Neither does Lois Lerner get to use the power of the state against political opponents. Except she did. As Sista Soldja once said, "Two wrongs don't make a right, but it damn sure makes it equal!"

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 05, 2014 07:21 AM (bb5+k)

98 If everyone that had contempt for congress were jailed, this place would be a ghost town. Heyoooooo

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 05, 2014 07:21 AM (+lsX1)

99 Fucking Boehner. Why am I not supposed to be outraged again?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 05, 2014 07:22 AM (gBnkX)

100 His district obviously sent their best and brightest. Baltimore's Crime Index these days is an impressive "4". For those of you paying attention, Chicago is an "8". Posted by: B at March 05, 2014 11:17 AM (5OEha) The tragedy of the majority-minority districts. You'd think that, with the demographics of Cummings' district that they would send the best and brightest to Washington. No matter what happens, they'll get a black Democrat, so you don't have to vote for the incumbent or a machine politician. And yet...

Posted by: AmishDude at March 05, 2014 07:22 AM (T0NGe)

101 The ever-so effective GOPe strikes again. Lerner 2 GOPe 0 Why not go for three, you worthless fucking Vichy Republicans? Fuck me, I wish we had an opposition party in this country. The GOPe won't charge her with contempt BECAUSE. THEY. ARE. IN. ON. IT.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 05, 2014 07:22 AM (7ObY1)

102 That's it. I'm done for the day. My system can't handle the rage. Gonna bury myself in a book.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 05, 2014 07:22 AM (euACX)

103 Worthless, inept, ineffectual Republicans in Congress + Evil, communist, lying shitbag Democrats in Congress + Retarded, egotistical, possibly psychotic fuckhead Democrat President = The Burning Times can't get here soon enough.


I am finally ready.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 05, 2014 07:22 AM (TM1p8)

104 Cute. "Tried to ask a question" is apparently the same as "decided to go off on a partisan rant." Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 05, 2014 10:59 AM (4df7R At your average congressional hearing, yes.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 05, 2014 07:22 AM (hq5sb)

105 Neither does Lois Lerner get to use the power of the state against political opponents. Except she did. --- Agreed.

Posted by: SH at March 05, 2014 07:22 AM (gmeXX)

106 2 points: During the last go round of these hearings she made a blanket statement of her innocence which invalidated her subsequent pleading of the 5th Amendment. What's changed since then? Therefore, she should be thrown in jail. Second point: What is the fucking point of these hearings since without a special prosecutor/select committee no one is going to be punished. In other words, Dick Cummings has somewhat of a point (though not quite what he thinks).

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2014 07:23 AM (olDqf)

107 It's a lot more fun watching the Dems than it is watching Republicans nowadays. Pelosi is apparently in the Donk's witness protection program, Reid is in the midst of a Koch Bros. R Devils tirade, Barry's bitching about the GOP (again), and various Lefty operators are complaining that complaining about Obama's complaining about Putin's Crimean invasion is somehow undermining a non-existent US Russian policy.  Bottom Line:  The Democratic Party as we know it is on thehigh-speed train to Oblivion.  All Aboard!

Posted by: mrp at March 05, 2014 07:23 AM (JBggj)

108 After all, he was head of the IMF! So he knows money and shit! Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 05, 2014 11:19 AM (4df7R) Yep, it's a revolving door. Jamie Gorelick got a prime spot at Fannie Mae despite having no credentials whatsoever for the job.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 05, 2014 07:23 AM (T0NGe)

109 Elijah Cummings is from the great State of Maryland.

As are many of us Morons.

Pray for us......please.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2014 07:23 AM (DPkKe)

110 Come on she's already retired!  That's the most important thing.  That is the greatest victory we can get.  Having her retired with a full pension.  What more do you crazy tea party tru-cons want!

Posted by: buzzion at March 05, 2014 07:24 AM (LI48c)

111 I was surprised I hadn't heard about Ms. Fuddy's death here at HQ. Posted by: Mister Christopher at March 05, 2014 11:07 AM (uI7aJ) Are you kidding? That stuff is crazy nonsense from deep within the fever swamps of Kooky Birther conspiracy theories. There is absolutely nothing to see in the area of Barry's qualifications for office. There is no need for any rational thinking person to suggest that Barry is not a "natural born citizen" of the United States. Just crazy talk. If you don't believe me, ask Ace and co.

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 05, 2014 07:24 AM (bb5+k)

112 If only Elijah Cummings would explode. Spontaneously.

Posted by: JQP at March 05, 2014 07:24 AM (U4GjV)

113 I would have preferred Issa taking gavel to that yammering WH talking point's bald head, but you can't have everything. His suit would possibly get splattered upon, so, he did the wise thing and cut off the blabbering mouth and left.

His "questions" all derive from the WH. All of them. He has not had an original or spontaneous thought since the Clinton years.

Term limits. There should be idiot limits as well, but that would be in a perfect world where voters had to take a test prior to vote and/or knew who the VP or Secretary of State were.

I do think ole Lois should be held in contempt. I know I feel some contempt for her and Cummings.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Judge of Raciss Morons at March 05, 2014 07:24 AM (baL2B)

114 Cummings requires respect by disrespecting the Chairman...utterly juvenile delinquent behavior. Brat to Chairman: I've listened to you for 15 minutes. Now you STFU and listen to me, me, me, me, me. I have something to say. But I won't just spit it out. No. I will not answer your question. You must and you will listen to me regurgitate all my grievances for having been held accountable for my own choices, starting from the day I began talking. I have a procedural question that I won't ask until I finish talking.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 05, 2014 07:24 AM (MhA4j)

115 The Democratic Party as we know it is on thehigh-speed train to Oblivion. All Aboard!

Posted by: mrp at March 05, 2014 11:23 AM (JBggj)


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Yeah.... but the rest of us are the same damn train with them.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 05, 2014 07:24 AM (nELVU)

116 107 Bottom Line: The Democratic Party as we know it is on thehigh-speed train to Oblivion. All Aboard! Posted by: mrp at March 05, 2014 11:23 AM (JBggj) If only there was an actual GOP opposition party that was fully engaged and on our side to take advantage of it. Instead, Jeb/Huntsman '16! Yay.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2014 07:24 AM (olDqf)

117 I want to see Cummings bring in a cudgel and beat Issa about the head and shoulders with it on the floor of the House all the time screaming 'racist'.


Posted by: Old Historian at March 05, 2014 07:25 AM (mjYvT)

118 Second point: What is the fucking point of these hearings since without a special prosecutor/select committee no one is going to be punished. ---- (A) political theater isn't pointless. (B) it's not over, sometimes things take time. I'm not optimistic, but you never know.

Posted by: SH at March 05, 2014 07:25 AM (gmeXX)

119 49 Vic as jury foreman, awesome. Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 05, 2014 11:07 AM (HVff2) I suspect someone is going to get some Justice.

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 05, 2014 07:25 AM (bb5+k)

120 Bottom Line: The Democratic Party as we know it is on thehigh-speed train to Oblivion. All Aboard! Please pass whatever it is you're smoking.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 05, 2014 07:25 AM (7ObY1)

121 Is it a witch hunt if you find an actual witch?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 05, 2014 07:25 AM (HFap2)

122 Somebody should make a nice video montage of all the times Democrats and the Left call us UnAmerican. They do it all the time now. The video could bookend it with footage from the McCarthy era and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. The Left is ripe for mockery on this issue.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 05, 2014 07:25 AM (ZPrif)

123 112 If only Elijah Cummings would explode. Spontaneously. Posted by: JQP at March 05, 2014 11:24 AM (U4GjV) If he did, one side of Guam would sink and his head would be hurtled near light speed towards Mars, where it would be impaled on the flag we planted there on '69Â…

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2014 07:26 AM (olDqf)

124 If you don't know how the person will answer the question, it should not be asked in court. Am I missing something because I didn't lower myself to studying "The Law"?  Isn't that the first damn thing you are supposed to learn?  (In medicine, the first thing you learn is "All bleeding eventually stops.")

Posted by: dfbaskwill at March 05, 2014 07:26 AM (zllbf)

125 I liked Elijah Cummings when Nancy Pelosi bit his finger off in that one movie.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 05, 2014 07:26 AM (gBnkX)

126 Cummings says this isn't a real investigation? The headline needs to be:

Key Democrat calls for Special Prosecutor

We're with you, Rep. Cummings, in seeing that real investigation. I'm sure you're calling the President right now and telling him to have Holder stop obstructing and get one appointed so the crimes committed by this rogue agency can be exposed and the persecution of the citizens of this country stopped.

Posted by: Multitude at March 05, 2014 07:26 AM (gJDLl)

127 This is what you get. A screamfest and a cut mike. Nothing else will happen.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 05, 2014 07:26 AM (oFCZn)

128 Dems know that if this reaches its conclusion, it will be DOOM for American socialism - even the "noble socialism" that the American left and Obama have in mind for us.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 05, 2014 07:26 AM (BZAd3)

129 A short video compilation - couple minutes max -- of all the Left's "OhMyGod Ur UnAmerican!" unhinged attacks would be devastating.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 05, 2014 07:27 AM (ZPrif)

130 i have a Question. Does Catherine Englebrecht (sp) true the vote and th4e others have standing to take Lois and IRS to court?

Posted by: willow at March 05, 2014 07:27 AM (nqBYe)

131 Vic as jury foreman, awesome. You broke my gavel off- again!- in whose ass?!

Posted by: The Judge at March 05, 2014 07:27 AM (FcR7P)

132 Okay, Anna, that was WEIRD.







And thank you. I think you are my new best friend for that vid.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 05, 2014 07:28 AM (TM1p8)

133 Noah Rothman ‏@NoahCRothman The Democrats' Crusade Against 'Un-American' Activities (VIDEOS) http://bit.ly/1cBXioB The modern Democratic PartyÂ’s origin myth is so closely tied up in their opposition to McCarthyism, they may not be able to objectively view how these actions reflect on them. If they could look objectively in a mirror, they might see that they are becoming precisely what they once opposed.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 05, 2014 07:28 AM (ZPrif)

134 Yep, it's a revolving door. Jamie Gorelick got a prime spot at Fannie Mae despite having no credentials whatsoever for the job. Posted by: AmishDude ------------------- On the other hand, Anthony Foxx is highly qualified as Sec. of Transportation, because...., well...., because he arranged a $10 million loan for the DNC Convention. Which loan then was defaulted.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 07:28 AM (aDwsi)

135 Go Galt now, while you still have something worth saving. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 05, 2014 11:10 AM (gUoN4) I have been pondering this for quite awhile. Don't go Galt. Just restrict your economic activity to people and organizations that are your allies in the coming conflict. Do what you can to limit any of your money going to liberal/enemy organizations/businesses. And we need to come up with a substitute for American currency, because they are stealing us blind with their printing presses.

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 05, 2014 07:29 AM (bb5+k)

136 even the "noble socialism" that the American left and Obama have in mind for us. The only socialism they have in mind is the one where they are the nobles. With Nobels.

Posted by: t-bird at March 05, 2014 07:29 AM (FcR7P)

137 Nothing to see here. Move along looky loos.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 05, 2014 07:29 AM (gLjvy)

138 I wish Lerner was Alan Grayson's wife.

Posted by: redenzo at March 05, 2014 07:29 AM (JMb/Y)

139 A video showing how closely the modern Left mirrors McCarthy's language would hurt them. They really think they are the brave anti-McCarthyite's standing up to the small-minded bullying bigots.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 05, 2014 07:30 AM (ZPrif)

140 I wish Lerner was Alan Grayson's wife.

Posted by: redenzo at March 05, 2014 11:29 AM (JMb/Y)


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Thread.Winner.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 05, 2014 07:30 AM (nELVU)

141

112 If only Elijah Cummings would explode. Spontaneously.

 


Posted by: JQP at March 05, 2014 11:24 AM (U4GjV)

 

ewww.   Think of all the gristle.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 05, 2014 07:31 AM (4df7R)

142

Wasn't it Elijah Cummings' daughter who tried to get her FCC colleagues to send government monitors into news rooms to investigate how well Fox was reporting the news? 

 

Now we see Congressman  Cummings  himself  speaking in favor of using the IRS to punish the political speech of average Americans, by way of protecting the very woman who organized the effort on behalf of the foul and disgusting progressive fascists who run the government.

 

Clearly, the definition of "unAmerican" is different in the Cummings household than it is in mine. 

Posted by: MTF at March 05, 2014 07:31 AM (B5y+v)

143 127 This is what you get. A screamfest and a cut mike. Nothing else will happen.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 05, 2014 11:26 AM (oFCZn)

 

She's already retired.  That's a huge win for us.  Why aren't you satisfied?  You're probably just a crazy Ted Cruz loving Tea Partier.

Posted by: buzzion at March 05, 2014 07:31 AM (LI48c)

144 I wish Lerner was Alan Grayson's wife.

Posted by: redenzo at March 05, 2014 11:29 AM (JMb/Y)

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Thread.Winner.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 05, 2014 11:30 AM (nELVU)


Seconded and thirded!

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 07:31 AM (GQ8sn)

145 Please pass whatever it is you're smoking.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 05, 2014 11:25 AM
====
I didn't mention the icing on the cake ... Hiilary Reset gave a little speech last night comparing Putin to Hitler and the Nazis.

Vlad Putin ... just another man that betrayed Mrs. Slick Clinton.

Posted by: mrp at March 05, 2014 07:32 AM (JBggj)

146 Same old same old Issa. Arrest her for pitty sakes for contempt!

Posted by: hello, it's me also a creep-assed cracka.. at March 05, 2014 07:32 AM (9+ccr)

147 70 From Russia some strange love for BCochran. Plus help MWR with da Russian accent.

In the wise words of my then 10 year old son after watching a few James Bond movies, "Russian girls in shinny clothes are a lot of trouble." That video seems confirm his theory.

Posted by: Frank at March 05, 2014 07:32 AM (7Nabg)

148 87 Just jail her. She can't have given testimony and THEN decide to claim the Fifth. Posted by: panzernashorn at March 05, 2014 11:19 AM (MhA4j) The Democrats do not agonize or second guess themselves about what to do with a know political opponent. Scooter Libby anyone? Throw the bitch in Jail, and try to find more people you can also throw in Jail. Stop trying to be fair. That will get you killed.

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 05, 2014 07:32 AM (bb5+k)

149 I just work here in Merryland...sigh. Now they want me to move here. I need my head examined.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at March 05, 2014 07:32 AM (PxqU/)

150 So you want Lois to play Tina to Alan Grayson's Ike?

Could this be a Showtime original?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 07:33 AM (/8lfu)

151 It's over. All over. We are a lawless nation. Banana republic.

The Burning Times? You're soaking in it!

Posted by: tsj017 at March 05, 2014 07:33 AM (4YUWF)

152 Just saw on Twitter that lurker 'Ette 'Pip and Baby' is in the ER and asking for prayer. No details if it's her or her child being seen.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 05, 2014 07:33 AM (GDulk)

153 That sidebar article re: Boehner. 


Can't wait to hear his fanboys amongst the Horde defend this one.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at March 05, 2014 07:33 AM (9LuAk)

154 A video showing how closely the modern Left mirrors McCarthy's language would hurt them. They really think they are the brave anti-McCarthyite's standing up to the small-minded bullying bigots.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 05, 2014 11:30 AM (ZPrif)

 

In defense of Joe McCarthy: he was right. There were Soviet agents in the State Department. His downfall came because of his accusations against General Marshall, arguably one of the greatest Americans of the 20th Century.

 

I blame it on the booze. McCarthy was a functional alcoholic until he wasn't.

Posted by: troyriser at March 05, 2014 07:33 AM (gNlvW)

155 National Review ‏@NRO 'Sensenbrenner Unplugged': Republican wants racial voting categories, more powers for Holder. http://natl.re/1eWwlk0 Republican Sensenbrenner's bill also specifically excludes whites from protection -- even when they are the minority.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 05, 2014 07:33 AM (ZPrif)

156 "If you don't know how the person will answer the question, it should not be asked in court." That's the thing, a fucking doorknob could have told you she was going to plead the Fifth. If they weren't gonna offer her immunity, why wouldn't she do what she's already gotten away with? If they gave her immunity, she'd just come out and say it was only her (at most) and then what? She played everyone here because she's holding all the cards. While Holder is in office, this won't change. While the MSM still reigns supreme, she goes to jail on Capitol Hill, she gets painted as a hero ala Wendy Davis. This whole fucking thing is lose/lose.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 05, 2014 07:33 AM (gBnkX)

157 Being "held in contempt" is a badge of honor to the Donks at this point. They giggle about it at their cocktail parties. "What, you haven't been indicted by the Rethugs? You're NOBODY in this town till you've been held in contempt. Tee hee."

Posted by: Citizen X at March 05, 2014 07:33 AM (7ObY1)

158 Just saw on Twitter that lurker 'Ette 'Pip and Baby' is in the ER and asking for prayer. No details if it's her or her child being seen.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 05, 2014 11:33 AM (GDulk)


She shall have it.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at March 05, 2014 07:34 AM (9LuAk)

159 Can't wait to hear his fanboys amongst the Horde defend this one.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at March 05, 2014 11:33 AM (9LuAk)

 

I don't know of any Boehner fanboys in the Horde. Name one.

Posted by: troyriser at March 05, 2014 07:34 AM (gNlvW)

160 so no one knows if True the Vote and the others that were targeted and intimidated by this Administrations apparatchiks IRS have standing to actually take Lois and IRS to actual court?

Posted by: willow at March 05, 2014 07:34 AM (nqBYe)

161 121 Is it a witch hunt if you find an actual witch? Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 05, 2014 11:25 AM (HFap2) And once the Soviet Union fell, and opened up many of their records? We found that much of the time McCarthy was RIGHT....

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 05, 2014 07:34 AM (84gbM)

162 Cummings shielding Obama has become nothing less than defending tyranny.

Posted by: SamIam at March 05, 2014 07:34 AM (Lh8u2)

163 I didn't mention the icing on the cake ... Hiilary Reset gave a little speech last night comparing Putin to Hitler and the Nazis.

Vlad Putin ... just another man that betrayed Mrs. Slick Clinton.

Posted by: mrp at March 05, 2014 11:32 AM (JBggj)


Too bad she didn't get a chance to fling an ashtray at him.

Posted by: joncelli at March 05, 2014 07:34 AM (RD7QR)

164 We've seen the extents this administration will go. Which makes me really wonder what the actual threat to Lerner was. Enough to make her back down completely.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 05, 2014 07:35 AM (IXrOn)

165 In the wise words of my then 10 year old son after watching a few James Bond movies, "Russian girls in shinny clothes are a lot of trouble."


He is truly wise before his time.


Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 07:35 AM (GQ8sn)

166 159 I don't know of any Boehner fanboys in the Horde. Name one. As usual, jwest doesn't count here.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at March 05, 2014 07:35 AM (PxqU/)

167 The Rosenbergs really were Soviet spies, for one thing.

Posted by: Votermom at March 05, 2014 07:35 AM (GSIDW)

168 " Now they want me to move here. I need my head examined."

No, how you respond to their desires determines the need for an examination.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2014 07:35 AM (DPkKe)

169 "Russian girls in shiny clothes are a lot of trouble." Sure wish I had your boy's smarts back when I  was blowing my inheritance  all across the "Gentleman's Clubs" of Northern NY in the late '90's.....

Posted by: JoeyBagels at March 05, 2014 07:36 AM (LYk14)

170 @156 At a minimum, making Lerner actually take the Fifth on numerous questions will make for interesting commercials in the Fall. I am not totally negative on forcing her to repeat this over and over.

Posted by: MSM, Hollywood, and Education at March 05, 2014 07:36 AM (sOtz/)

171

Just saw on Twitter that lurker 'Ette 'Pip and Baby'
is in the ER and asking for prayer. No details if it's her or her child
being seen.


Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 05, 2014 11:33 AM (GDulk)

 

DONE.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 05, 2014 07:36 AM (4df7R)

172 150 So you want Lois to play Tina to Alan Grayson's Ike? Could this be a Showtime original? Big Mouth keep on squawkin' Proud Lois won't be talkin' Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the Potomac River

Posted by: Citizen X at March 05, 2014 07:36 AM (7ObY1)

173 Just crazy talk. If you don't believe me, ask Ace and co.

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 05, 2014 11:24 AM (bb5+k)

By all means, please illuminate me.  Because a cursory glance at that story simply does not pass the smell test. 

Like Ron Brown's death.  'Cept different.

Posted by: Mister Christopher at March 05, 2014 07:36 AM (uI7aJ)

174 The point is not that McCarthy was wrong to call out Commies in the govt. The point is that the modern Left's self-conception is that they are diametrically opposed to McCarthy -- that McCarthy was the devil and they are the angel. Yet they keep speaking the exact same language. If that is shoved in their face it will cause their brain to malfunction. To the Left -- it's unpossible that they are echoing all of McCarthy's rants about UnAmerican behaviors. Yet that's exactly what they are doing.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 05, 2014 07:36 AM (ZPrif)

175

Hey, I just noticed there are lots of Russians living in Brooklyn!

 

I'm kind of on a crusade  to  protect  Russians  everywhere they may be, so maybe I should send troops to Brooklyn.   Just spitballin', here...it's just a thought.....but would the Democrats object, do you think?

Posted by: Vladimir Putin at March 05, 2014 07:36 AM (B5y+v)

176 I like Boehner.

Posted by: Hector, Troof Teller at March 05, 2014 07:36 AM (Aif/5)

177 In other legal news from New Jersey.  Spoiled 18 year old girl who sued her parents has been slapped down.  Judge has ruled that poor sweet Rachel is not entitled to $650/week child support or that her parents must pay for the $5,000+ owed to her private school.  Judge still has to have a hearing on whether Rachel's parents are still on the hook to pay for her college.

http://tinyurl.com/o5gygq4

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 07:36 AM (/8lfu)

178 Go Galt WHERE on the other side of the rainbow the grass is always greener yonder I can understand "be" Galt. Stand your ground. But "go" Galt always irked me as the book concludes like a Rand fairy tale. No? What then, to a Zardoz utopia but revised? Really, not. As if there's a "free land" somewhere for the taking where all the liberty loving hard working geniuses congregate and produce. /Prison camps.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 05, 2014 07:36 AM (MhA4j)

179 http://youtu.be/F0k-OWxInG4 Posted by: Anna Puma By a group named "Via Gra". Are they doing everything they can to tweak Putin?

Posted by: t-bird at March 05, 2014 07:36 AM (FcR7P)

180 142 Wasn't it Elijah Cummings' daughter who tried to get her FCC colleagues to send government monitors into news rooms to investigate how well Fox was reporting the news? Posted by: MTF at March 05, 2014 11:31 AM (B5y+v)
No, it was Clyburn's daughter.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 05, 2014 07:36 AM (HFap2)

181

I wonder which side John Boner lands on here.

Democrat, probably.

Therefore, this is totally meaningless.

Expect more.


Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Christies at March 05, 2014 07:37 AM (P6IEl)

182 This teabagger thing has gone on for too long. Why, pretty soon these nuts will start saying they should be able to make their own healthcare decisions. It's un-American, I tell you!

Posted by: John "Deeply Closeted" Boehner at March 05, 2014 07:37 AM (JQuNB)

183 "I don't know of any Boehner fanboys in the Horde. Name one." Clearly you haven't met Hollowpoint or JeffB.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 05, 2014 07:37 AM (gBnkX)

184

At a minimum, making Lerner actually take the Fifth on numerous questions will make for interesting commercials in the Fall.

 

Will it?

 

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 05, 2014 07:37 AM (4df7R)

185 Judge still has to have a hearing on whether Rachel's parents are still on the hook to pay for her college. http://tinyurl.com/o5gygq4 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 11:36 AM (/8lfu) Incredible.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 05, 2014 07:38 AM (MhA4j)

186 168 " Now they want me to move here. I need my head examined."

No, how you respond to their desires determines the need for an examination.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2014 11:35 AM (DPkKe)


Live as far out in the sticks as possible and it's not so bad. But I'm sure I don't have to tell you that the suck increases exponentially the closer you get to Baltington/Washimore.

Posted by: joncelli at March 05, 2014 07:38 AM (RD7QR)

187 169--I meant Northern New Jersey...

Posted by: JoeyBagels at March 05, 2014 07:38 AM (LYk14)

188 Frank, so true.  Especially Ms Onatop there.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 07:38 AM (/8lfu)

189 I'm kind of on a crusade to protect Russians everywhere they may be, so maybeI should send troops to Brooklyn. --- Hmm.. Putin invading NYC - promise to throw De Blasio into a gulag and I say we have a deal!

Posted by: Votermom at March 05, 2014 07:38 AM (GSIDW)

190 177 In other legal news from New Jersey. Spoiled 18 year old girl who sued her parents has been slapped down. And not even as hot as everyone is making her out to be. Just takes good head shots. Fat gams.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 05, 2014 07:39 AM (7ObY1)

191 Ahhh, political theater while the rest of us are wondering what will happen when we join a non profit conservative group.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 05, 2014 07:39 AM (A98Xu)

192 Fifth!!!

Posted by: lois lerner at March 05, 2014 07:39 AM (hn5v5)

193 Hmm.. Putin invading NYC - promise to throw De Blasio into a gulag and I say we have a deal! Posted by: Votermom at March 05, 2014 11:38 AM (GSIDW) "Sister City" program?

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 05, 2014 07:39 AM (MhA4j)

194 Issa figured out it was a setup from the start. Good for him for adjourning the meeting so quickly. Sharpton Cummings looked like a raging idiot.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 05, 2014 07:40 AM (IXrOn)

195 And once the Soviet Union fell, and opened up many of their records? We found that much of the time McCarthy was RIGHT....

Hell, much of the time he wasn't thinking big enough.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 05, 2014 07:40 AM (B/VB5)

196 OT: Reading a lefty blog where they are discussing China's human rights report on the US where they accuse us of still "lynching negroes" Someone brought up the fact that a third of the lynchings in this country were whites lynching whites. They also referenced the Thurmond and Holmes lynching that happened in 1933 in Santa Clara: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Hart I guess it made news in 2008 but I never heard of it. The actor Jackie Coogan was alleged to be holding the rope. The defendants had to be sent to the jail in SF but were later were transferred back to San Jose. Even more fascinating, is that they talk about a daily passenger ship from SF to LA. Anyway, sorry to get too off topic.

Posted by: Judge Pug at March 05, 2014 07:40 AM (6Nj7A)

197 142
Wasn't it Elijah Cummings' daughter who tried to get her FCC colleagues to send government monitors into news rooms to investigate how well Fox was reporting the news?
Posted by: MTF at March 05, 2014 11:31 AM (B5y+v)

No, it was Clyburn's daughter.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 05, 2014 11:36 AM (HFap2)

 

Why am I not surprised at the confusion?

Posted by: Samuel L Jackson at March 05, 2014 07:40 AM (29vnO)

198 192 Fifth!!! Posted by: lois lerner at March 05, 2014 11:39 AM (hn5v5) Fore!!!!

Posted by: articulate Obumbles at March 05, 2014 07:40 AM (MhA4j)

199 Yea, I'd hit it.

Posted by: Alan Grayson (D)ouche at March 05, 2014 07:41 AM (gLjvy)

200 "Shame, shame," Democrats called out. Ouch! That ranks right up there with, "Russia's weak, that's why they invaded the Crimea".

Posted by: t-bird at March 05, 2014 07:41 AM (FcR7P)

201 Fat gams. Posted by: Citizen X at March 05, 2014 11:39 AM (7ObY1) Ahhh a Cankles Wannabe.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 05, 2014 07:41 AM (HVff2)

202 Which makes me really wonder what the actual threat to Lerner was. Enough to make her back down completely. Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 05, 2014 11:35 AM (IXrOn) You are kidding. What sort of threat would you expect from a Chicago thug?

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 05, 2014 07:41 AM (bb5+k)

203
I drank a fifth while watching that.

*hic*

Posted by: Diane Sawyer at March 05, 2014 07:41 AM (gorVZ)

204 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 05, 2014 11:36 AM (ZPrif) The number of lefties that sneeringly use "freedom" and "Murica" would just blow it off. Like they do anything that highlights their hypocrisy.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 05, 2014 07:42 AM (gBnkX)

205 I drank a fifth while watching that. I need a fifth with all the shit going on...

Posted by: hello, it's me also a creep-assed cracka.. at March 05, 2014 07:42 AM (9+ccr)

206 are we srsly going to keep going on like this?
all this is still going on!
we have any LAWFUL solutions for justice against this beast?

Posted by: willow at March 05, 2014 11:04 AM (nqBYe)

 

 

--------------------------------------------

 

 

No.  Not the type of justice that can be discussed on this  blog.  I have very little faith anymore of anything being corrected  by political means  on the course this nation is now on.  We missed that chance in 2008.  This regime and congress have set the stage for the downfall of the US as we've known it. 

 

Nothing will happen until the old-guard elites are gone  and the MFM is brought to it's knees.  Even then I think it'll be too late.

 

We are now almost 2d world status, with the leftists of this country working very hard for 3rd world status.

Posted by: Soona at March 05, 2014 07:42 AM (pHRUK)

207


Loogit, nobody more conservative than John Boner, nobody.

Paul Ryan, same thing.

Present, same thing.

So when we see people accuse, they really have no basis for criticisin at all.

All of those guys, conservative.


Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Christies at March 05, 2014 07:43 AM (P6IEl)

208 Hillary's parents were good upstanding Republicans.  They paid for her college education where she went total Leftist.  When she gave her graduation speech from college, she savaged a Republican politician.

So yes, Rachel seems on that track.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 07:43 AM (/8lfu)

209 "Live as far out in the sticks as possible and it's not so bad. But I'm sure I don't have to tell you that the suck increases exponentially the closer you get to Baltington/Washimore."

Consider looking at FredNeck, Libertytown, Taneytown.

OR.........google "Firearms Dealers+Maryland" and look for concentrations.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2014 07:43 AM (DPkKe)

210 Yea, I'd hit it.

Posted by: Alan Grayson (D)ouche at March 05, 2014 11:41 AM (gLjvy)



Second Thread Winner (kinda like Second Breakfast).

Posted by: Sharkman at March 05, 2014 07:43 AM (TM1p8)

211 Issa figured out it was a setup from the start. Good for him for adjourning the meeting so quickly. Sharpton Cummings looked like a raging idiot. I'm sure a transcript of his remarks have been helpfully forwarded to the media. "What the Honorable Rep. Cummings was trying to say was..."

Posted by: t-bird at March 05, 2014 07:43 AM (FcR7P)

212 No. Not the type of justice that can be discussed on this blog.-Soona Are we talking of burning times and burning corpses? Ooops.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 05, 2014 07:44 AM (HVff2)

213 196, Uncle Fester was a racist?

Posted by: JoeyBagels at March 05, 2014 07:44 AM (LYk14)

214 If you plead the fifth to Congress you loose the government pension check. You maintain the right to plead the fifth just not on the public's dime. As long as they can take with one hand and withhold with the other they will have contempt for those who employ them. Sneak it into a spending bill January 2015 and she if she wants to continue smirking.

Posted by: Lester at March 05, 2014 07:44 AM (2UPXV)

215 The Verona Papers : Decrypted Soviet Communications : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Americans_in_the_Venona_papers Scroll to the bottom for an interesting list of names

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 05, 2014 07:44 AM (aDwsi)

216 Cummings looked like a raging idiot. Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 05, 2014 11:40 AM (IXrOn) I'm an American Congressman, and I have the RIGHT to keep talking until I figure out what the hell I'm trying to say, damn it! Now STFU, sit down, and listen to the sound of my voice as I ramble and drone...

Posted by: inarticulate Cummings raging idiot at March 05, 2014 07:44 AM (MhA4j)

217 186 the suck increases exponentially the closer you get to Baltington/Washimore. The office is near BWI, and I go to Annapolis a lot due to who I work for. Did I mention I work for the Maryland Exchange? Yeah, my suck kinda asymptotically approaches infinity.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at March 05, 2014 07:44 AM (PxqU/)

218 No. Not the type of justice that can be discussed on this blog. I have very little faith anymore of anything being corrected by political means on the course this nation is now on. We missed that chance in 2008. This regime and congress have set the stage for the downfall of the US as we've known it. Nothing will happen until the old-guard elites are gone and the MFM is brought to it's knees. Even then I think it'll be too late. We are now almost 2d world status, with the leftists of this country working very hard for 3rd world status. Posted by: Soona at March 05, 2014 11:42 AM (pHRUK) Cut. Jib. Newsletter?

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at March 05, 2014 07:45 AM (JQuNB)

219 You are kidding. What sort of threat would you expect from a Chicago thug? Posted by: D-Lamp at March 05, 2014 11:41 AM (bb5+k) No, I'm not kidding. Rumors that her life and her family's life were at risk are just rumors atm. I would really like to know. And, by whom, exactly.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 05, 2014 07:45 AM (IXrOn)

220 It's Venona Papers. The Verona papers was Romeo & Juliet.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 05, 2014 07:45 AM (7ObY1)

221 213 196, Uncle Fester was a racist? Posted by: JoeyBagels at March 05, 2014 11:44 AM (LYk14) No, those were two white boys swinging from that tree.

Posted by: Judge Pug at March 05, 2014 07:45 AM (6Nj7A)

222

See, loogit, when Issa was doin that hand across the neck thing, that was just like he was tryin ta lynch Mr. Cummings, and every other black person on the planet.

So we see, this is a racist un-American witchhunt.

It otta end soon, preferably now, so our fellow American can get back to fucking with their fellow American in the most nastyiest way possible, by ruining their lives.

But hey, repealing Obamacare, that's not the cosnervative positon we otta be going towards, because.

Because, racism.


Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Christies at March 05, 2014 07:45 AM (P6IEl)

223 I drank a fifth while watching that. Out of vodka Tampons, already?

Posted by: garrett at March 05, 2014 07:46 AM (O7lK7)

224 By all means, please illuminate me. Because a cursory glance at that story simply does not pass the smell test. Like Ron Brown's death. 'Cept different. Posted by: Mister Christopher at March 05, 2014 11:36 AM (uI7aJ) Go look up the various theories on Free Republic. (just click on "naturalborncitizen" link) I personally have taken no interest in the death of Mrs. Fuddy, but there are others who have taken a great deal of interest in it. My comment was more a critique of the refusal of Ace and co to even consider that we are being fed a load of shit from Barky incorporated, but Ace feels we shouldn't even consider looking at any of it. For some reason, a lot of people around here think that looking into Barry's legitimacy is just a no-go zone.

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 05, 2014 07:46 AM (bb5+k)

225 True the Vote has filed a complaint against Cummings for intimidation during this investigation he also contacted the IRS about investigating conservative groups in light of Citizens United Issa should remove him from the investigation, as he is compromised and it give the appearance of impropriety if not actual impropriety

Posted by: thunderb at March 05, 2014 07:46 AM (zOTsN)

226 Rumors that her life and her family's life were at risk are just rumors atm. I would really like to know. And, by whom, exactly. Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 05, 2014 11:45 AM (IXrOn) Why? we all know it's those violent tea-baggers...

Posted by: hello, it's me also a creep-assed cracka.. at March 05, 2014 07:46 AM (9+ccr)

227 Issa should have allowed the questions from Cummings, because if Lerner did not assert her Fifth Amendment right in response he would have had a waiver argument. Otherwise I'm OK with cutting Cummings' microphone as a general matter.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at March 05, 2014 07:46 AM (nnkXw)

228 My favorite part was when Lerner shouted into the mic. You're damn right I ordered the code red!

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 05, 2014 07:46 AM (gLjvy)

229 The Tells:

When Republicans start losing, they fold and start apologizing for the rude behavior of their conservative colleagues.

When Democrats are losing, they start shouting, cursing, and slandering.  The louder they shout, the greater the political hemorrhaging.  Election Day 2014 is fast approaching.

Posted by: mrp at March 05, 2014 07:46 AM (JBggj)

230 At this point, what difference does my testimony make?

Posted by: Lois Lerner at March 05, 2014 07:46 AM (XxAYS)

231 "I don't know of any Boehner fanboys in the Horde. Name one." !sexist

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 05, 2014 07:47 AM (MhA4j)

232 akula....

Damn son.
Screwed, blued and tattoo'd doesn't even begin to address your situation in life.




Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2014 07:47 AM (DPkKe)

233 The Cummings rant was scripted in advance, obviously. We all know he doesn't have the intelligence to write it himself. He couldn't even memorize it, as he kept looking down to try to read it while fuming about it being un-American. Like Ryan said: "We lost to these guys?"

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 05, 2014 07:47 AM (IXrOn)

234 Cummings is yet another Braying Jackass.

...like Duh!1....

Posted by: backhoe at March 05, 2014 07:47 AM (ULH4o)

235 Issa should have allowed the questions from Cummings, because if Lerner did not assert her Fifth Amendment right in response he would have had a waiver argument. Otherwise I'm OK with cutting Cummings' microphone as a general matter. Posted by: Alec Leamas there were no questions, it was a statement and there was no way Lerner would answer anyway this aint her first rodeo

Posted by: thunderb at March 05, 2014 07:48 AM (zOTsN)

236 thunderb, this video by that group I like a lot more.  Earth is imperiled by a Sun that is dieing.  So send a spaceship to reignite the Sun.

http://youtu.be/p-dx6S_Aqn0

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 07:48 AM (/8lfu)

237 As if there's a "free land" somewhere for the taking where all the liberty loving hard working geniuses congregate and produce. /Prison camps. Posted by: panzernashorn at March 05, 2014 11:36 AM (MhA4j) Exactly. There is no "Place" you can go to get away from this shit. You will have to endure it in some form or other, and your best option is to secure alliances with your friends and neighbors to help strengthen your community for when this shit starts breaking down. And plan for a long painful hunker.

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 05, 2014 07:48 AM (bb5+k)

238
Why you tryin to re-pimp my whore, Issa?  I done told you I bought little Lois way back.

Posted by: Bracky Obumbles at March 05, 2014 07:48 AM (gorVZ)

239 Let's see if Issa has the cojones to hold Lerner in contempt. I won't hold my breath.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 05, 2014 07:49 AM (gLjvy)

240 March 5th:
"Washington (AFP) - The United States plans to expand military cooperation with Poland and Baltic states to show "support" for its allies after Russia's intervention in Ukraine, Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel said Wednesday."

Feb 24th:
"Teeing up what could be a politically explosive fight before the midterm elections in November, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday will recommend billions of dollars in annual budget cuts that would reduce housing allowances and other benefits, increase health-care premiums, and limit pay raises, CBS News confirms."

Whiskey. It's what's for breakfast.

Posted by: B at March 05, 2014 07:49 AM (5OEha)

241

Hey everyone,

 

Please stop whatever you are doing and call your Senator RIGHT NOW and tell him/her to vote NO on Debo Adegbile.  Vote is coming up soon.  Pat Leahy is braying on the Senate floor right now about how horribly poor Debo has been "misrepresented." HE DEFENDED A COP KILLER and called the system that convicted him racist.  No way to misrepresent that.

Posted by: rockmom at March 05, 2014 07:49 AM (Q4elb)

242 Issa should have allowed the questions from Cummings, because if Lerner did not assert her Fifth Amendment right in response he would have had a waiver argument. Otherwise I'm OK with cutting Cummings' microphone as a general matter.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at March 05, 2014 11:46 AM (nnkXw)

 

Except he wasn't asking any questions.  He was    yelling at Issa   and impugning the whole thing as an "unAmerican" farce.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 05, 2014 07:50 AM (4df7R)

243 I figure Boehner wants some of that sweet cover from the press that they gave Krispie Kreme.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 05, 2014 07:51 AM (Hx5uv)

244 Can't we all just get along?

Posted by: John "Deeply Closeted" Boehner at March 05, 2014 07:51 AM (JQuNB)

245 Rockmom.... wish we could keep this guy out but it doesn't look promising...

Posted by: hello, it's me also a creep-assed cracka.. at March 05, 2014 07:51 AM (9+ccr)

246 Like Ryan said: "We lost to these guys?" Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 05, 2014 11:47 AM (IXrOn) Madden said, "Well Verne, they need to win by at least one point."

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 05, 2014 07:51 AM (MhA4j)

247 I don't really care about the fate of Lois Lerner. She is just a footsoldier in Obama's army of America-destroying bureaucrat-commies. What we need is the dirt on Obama, because there is a 100% chance that he ordered this IRS harassment directly. And then he needs to be impeached. Unfortunately, Lerner is a good cog in the Obama machine, and she will NEVER betray him to save her own skin. First line of defense: Take the Fifth. But if that fails, then yes, she'd take the fall to protect her master. I just hope that the hidden recording devices Nixon had installed in the White House are still running on autopilot, and one day we can hear what was really said by Obama. I think it would make our jaws drop and our hair stand on end, even the more cynical and conspiratorial-minded amongst us.

Posted by: zombie at March 05, 2014 07:51 AM (mizYg)

248 Posted by: rockmom at March 05, 2014 11:49 AM (Q4elb) You calling yours to tell them NO on Amnesty?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 05, 2014 07:52 AM (gBnkX)

249 Have I mentioned the fact that Cabela's and UPS can move packages pretty quickly when the weather cooperates?
Even if it is the type of packages that have to travel by surface transportation only.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2014 07:52 AM (DPkKe)

250 The doom is starting to get warm and comfortable.

Posted by: irright at March 05, 2014 07:52 AM (Ze8oh)

251

Clearly, Cummings was  waiting for his "And Justice For All"  moment.

 

 

So close.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 05, 2014 07:53 AM (BAS5M)

252 Our crap politics.

Posted by: Fred at March 05, 2014 07:53 AM (x1L8S)

253 Like Ryan said: "We lost to these guys?"

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 05, 2014 11:47 AM (IXrOn)


-----


No Paul.... YOU lost to these guys.


**spit

Posted by: fixerupper at March 05, 2014 07:53 AM (nELVU)

254 Can we all get along?

Posted by: the words spoken after the fact (riot) at March 05, 2014 07:53 AM (MhA4j)

255 THEY'RE GOING TO FROG MARCH DICK CHENEY I'M SURE OF IT!!

Posted by: Chris Matthews at March 05, 2014 07:54 AM (fMK2m)

256 Issa muttered "Boy" under his breath as he walked away.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 05, 2014 07:54 AM (32Ze2)

257 After I'm reappointed to the Speakership I'm gonna propose renaming the Affordable Care Act to make it more palatable to the reichwing Neanderthals. We should have called it "To Serve Man."

Posted by: John "Deeply Closeted" Boehner at March 05, 2014 07:54 AM (JQuNB)

258 "What we need is the dirt on Obama, because there is a 100% chance that he ordered this IRS harassment directly. And then he needs to be impeached." We can't even get the dirt on low level bureaucrats. Even if we do, nothing happens. You think there's a snowball's chance that's going to happen with Barky? You don't even have to get to the absurd idea of impeachment. These guys can't even hold their ground on the fucking debt ceiling.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 05, 2014 07:55 AM (gBnkX)

259 We should have called it "To Serve Man." It's a cookbook!

Posted by: hello, it's me also a creep-assed cracka.. at March 05, 2014 07:55 AM (9+ccr)

260

Paul Ryan.

LOL


Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Christies at March 05, 2014 07:55 AM (P6IEl)

261 As I posted on another site, if after Lerner took The Fifth, Cummings' important question was about fractions, I would liked to have heard it.

Posted by: ontherocks at March 05, 2014 07:56 AM (QPoWo)

262 Expect Presidential Thief Christina Kirchner to start screaming in 5 ... 4 ...

The US Supreme Court rules that Argentina must pay a British company $185 million.

http://tinyurl.com/o4ezsr9

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 07:56 AM (/8lfu)

263 247. But if that fails, then yes, she'd take the fall to protect her master. -- zombie saved by the long arms of Presidential Pardons and/or Executive Orders granting complete autonomy.

Posted by: Paulson, Sec. of Treasury, Bush at March 05, 2014 07:56 AM (MhA4j)

264 Not a smart move by Issa, Cummings put on his little act to give the media something to focus on other than Lerner once again pleading the fifth, Issa should have let him rant and then pointed that out, but now all the media will talk about is this and not Lerner.

Posted by: booger at March 05, 2014 07:56 AM (xRDdL)

265 Sorry, I keep using "we" when I mean "the GOP". Old habits die hard I guess.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 05, 2014 07:56 AM (gBnkX)

266 Posted by: zombie at March 05, 2014 11:51 AM (mizYg) Agree with your assessment 100%.

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 05, 2014 07:57 AM (bb5+k)

267 @247 Obama called for the IRS hit in speeches. Not in those terms obviously, but "shadowy organizations" using nefarious patriotic names which were funneling money into politics. (Not nearly the amount of the governmental employee unions of course.)

Posted by: MSM, Hollywood, and Education at March 05, 2014 07:57 AM (sOtz/)

268 Hell, I'll take a fifth.

Posted by: John "Deeply Closeted" Boehner at March 05, 2014 07:57 AM (JQuNB)

269 So when does Lerner go to jail? For that matter, when does ANYONE this pathetic unproductive assnugget has "investigated" go to jail? Cause until someone goes to jail it don't mean shit. Either he is a pathetic unproductive assnugget, as I assert, or he's actively helping in the cover-up by giving them the "See, it's being investigated!" excuse.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 05, 2014 07:57 AM (yh0zB)

270 That sidebar article re: Boehner. Can't wait to hear his fanboys amongst the Horde defend this one. Posted by: Kinley Ardal check the last thread he was taken out of context.....we shouldn't trust a summary by a critic

Posted by: thunderb at March 05, 2014 07:58 AM (zOTsN)

271 Not a smart move by Issa, Cummings put on his little act to give the media something to focus on other than Lerner once again pleading the fifth, Issa should have let him rant and then pointed that out, but now all the media will talk about is this and not Lerner.

 

 

Which is what they'd have done whether Issa   cut    his     mic    or not.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 05, 2014 07:58 AM (4df7R)

272 The Interpreter ‏@Interpreter_Mag Ukraine Liveblog: A Colonel reportedly kidnapped in Yalta, UN envoy reportedly kidnapped in Simferopol http://bit.ly/1c9t0yk

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 05, 2014 07:58 AM (ZPrif)

273 At the 3:10 mark Cummings ask Issa what he's hiding & someone shouts out that "he's taking the 5th..." Can we now assume that Lerner is hiding something based on that comment?

Posted by: sharon at March 05, 2014 07:58 AM (k0bWj)

274 The piece over at AmSpec will annoy you as well. THE IRS OUTRAGE Behind the Obama administration's sham inquiry. http://spectator.org/articles/57721/irs-outrage Lawless people who ignore subpoenas and donate to the JEF/DNC coffers. Incestuous Lawlessness.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 05, 2014 07:58 AM (IXrOn)

275 Living the Gramscian end game sock off.

Posted by: Beagle at March 05, 2014 07:59 AM (sOtz/)

276 The Interpreter ‏@Interpreter_Mag Ukraine Liveblog: UN envoy not kidnapped, but held against his will in Simferopol http://bit.ly/1c9uyIJ

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 05, 2014 07:59 AM (ZPrif)

277 138 I wish Lerner was Alan Grayson's wife. Posted by: redenzo at March 05, 2014 11:29 AM (JMb/Y) Coffee, meet monitor

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 05, 2014 08:00 AM (oFCZn)

278

Fast n Furious?

 

IRS vs Tea Party?

 

Benghazi?

 

 

To the MSM these are just tumbleweeds rollin' by.  Not much goes on in this town.  Yup.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 05, 2014 08:00 AM (BAS5M)

279 Are we talking of burning times and burning corpses? Ooops.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 05, 2014 11:44 AM (HVff2)

 

 

----------------------------------------------

 

 

We're in the burning times now. 

Posted by: Soona at March 05, 2014 08:01 AM (pHRUK)

280 Nood  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 05, 2014 08:01 AM (4df7R)

281 Meanwhile when Democrats do this stuff in House of Cards to pass entitlement reform over Tea Party objections, the media probably secretly roots for Kevin Spacey being so "effective." BTW, did that rankle anyone else? I totally lost respect for the show with that fantasy plot line.

Posted by: sexypig at March 05, 2014 08:01 AM (dZQh7)

282 1653 GMT: Below is the Interfax report on the kidnapped UN envoy, translated by The Interpreter: The Ukrainian MFA reported that the Special Envoy for the Secretary General of the UN, Robert Serry, who had arrived with the mission in the Crimea, has been seized by unidentified armed men. R. Serri has just informed us that his car has been blocked in Simferopol by unidentified armed men in uniform who told him that they were going to take him to the airport. He refused to go and is now captured and held hostage by the unidentified men”, said the director of the information department at the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yevhen Perebiynis.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 05, 2014 08:01 AM (ZPrif)

283 Wait a minute...    how can he be taken against his will and not kidnapped?

Or is Gaylord Focker's non-invasion invasion terminology infecting the Twitter feeds?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 05, 2014 08:01 AM (/8lfu)

284 Boss is up early

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2014 08:01 AM (DPkKe)

285 135?
D-Lamp?

I have withdrawn as much as humanly possible from society & commerce. When I hit 65 soon, have the school taxes taken off my house taxes. Dropped out of Medicare. If they call me again for jury duty, I'm not going. They have to come & get me.

Posted by: backhoe at March 05, 2014 08:01 AM (ULH4o)

286 256 " Issa muttered "Boy" under his breath as he walked away. " I'm pretty sure I heard Issa yell the "n-word" three times while spitting on Cummings. Of course, I don't expect there to be any audio or video recording of this because of racism.

Posted by: jwest at March 05, 2014 08:01 AM (u2a4R)

287 I propose a game show with three contestants: Sheila Jackson Lee, the former Rep Cynthia McKinney and Rep Elijah  Cummings. Questions would all pertain to American History, branches of government and function with two bonus questions.

First question:
What is the role of a US Congressman/woman?
Lee: This does not pertain to me, it is old honky law.
McKinney: Bush is the devil.
Cummings: Please repeat the question. I would like a roll, preferably buttered.
Answer:
The most important responsibility of Congress is that of making the laws of the United States. In both houses the work of preparing and considering legislation is done by standing committees, and in addition there are special committees in each house as well as joint committees with bicameral membership. The two houses have an equal voice in legislation, but revenue bills must originate in the House of Representatives. . *Note: Since 2008 laws have been largely passed by executive order and to hell with this other stuff. See: Obamacare, the most successful of all laws, evah.

Second question:
Which executive branch has the authority to impeach?
Lee: the Republicans? They tried to impeach Bill Clinton but failed!
McKinney: No one has that authority. No one. Bush should have been.
Cummings: I would like a peach, thank you. I prefer them from Georgia.
Answer: House of Representatives. Senate has authority to try impeachements.

Third question:
Which executive branch is seen as the most powerful?
Lee: Black Caucus, nitwit.
McKinney: I'll take Castro for the win.
Cummings: Are there peaches on that strong branch?
Answer: The Senate is regarded as the most powerful as they must ratify all treaties by 2/3 of vote, confirm presidential appointments to office, and they, unfortunately, hold a longer office than members of Congress.

Fourth question:
It is said that members of Congress, elected by the people and for the people, are "constituent servants." Do you consider yourself in this role?
Lee: I ain't nobody's servant!
McKinney: I concurify and resemble that statement. Bush!
Cummings: I have servants. Please repeat that question, as I am not familiar with that word...constipate?

Fifth question (bonus):
If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?
Lee: A wood tree. Solid wood tree.
McKinney: Balsa or any type of wood from Cuba. Maybe driftwood.
Cummings: Peach tree. Maybe beech, with these beeches I am on panel with.
Answer: no one but Barbara Walters knows or cares.

Sixth bonus question:
If the three of you were on a constituent's boat, fundraising, with only two life rafts, and you struck a rocky shore, who would survive and how would you do it once your ship started taking on water?
Lee: I would survive as my wigs float. I am also the most important.
McKinney: I would survive as I am the fastest and know the route to Cuba.
Cummings: I don't understand this constipation thing nor the complexity of this question. I have questions of my own. It is raciss to refer to rocky shores, as Rockaway is raciss. Rafts seems raciss as well. And if there were not enough life rafts that is totally raciss and a plot by Republicans.
Answer: None of the above would survive due to pointing fingers at Republicans and screeching their last breath.

 

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Judge of Raciss Morons at March 05, 2014 08:02 AM (baL2B)

288 See, stuff like this makes me want to scream whenever we discuss a case in Con Law where the Court left the policing of the political process up to political actors, and said "well, the legislature knows best".

What a fucking farce. How many times do people in the government get to stick their fingers in our eyes and get away with it?

Posted by: WolfinNC at March 05, 2014 08:02 AM (kjy2L)

289 Issa may in fact repeatedly drag her up...why not? Harrass her enough and she will agree to a real deal where she spills the beans.

Posted by: sexypig at March 05, 2014 08:02 AM (dZQh7)

290 Each time I get another glimpse of Lerner's mug she reminds me more and more of Margaret Hamilton.

Posted by: ontherocks at March 05, 2014 08:02 AM (/oUoX)

291 Which is what they'd have done whether Issa cut his mic or not.

True, but Issa should have let him rant and then pointed that out, as is they can easily paint Issa as the dictatorial bad guy who only wants to hear one side.

Posted by: booger at March 05, 2014 08:03 AM (xRDdL)

292 OT


I just read that the German family that was being deported because of home-schooling can now stay in the US.  This was a last minute change of heart.

Posted by: EC at March 05, 2014 08:04 AM (GQ8sn)

293 I have withdrawn as much as humanly possible from society commerce. When I hit 65 soon, have the school taxes taken off my house taxes. Dropped out of Medicare. If they call me again for jury duty, I'm not going. They have to come get me. Posted by: backhoe at March 05, 2014 12:01 PM (ULH4o) I would advise that you do not sit idle. It is neither good for your future, nor good for your spirit. Also, I'm serious about trying to form alliances with your friends and neighbors. We will all need like minded people to lean against while society collapses around us.

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 05, 2014 08:06 AM (bb5+k)

294 Everyone gird your loins now for the GOP primary.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 05, 2014 08:07 AM (A98Xu)

295 Isn't this just the same old story of the last 5 years? Democrats do whatever they please and nothing will be done about it.

Posted by: Meremortal at March 05, 2014 08:08 AM (1Y+hH)

296 <i>“He was actually slandering me at the moment that the mics did go off by claiming that this had not been a real investigation.”</i>

Not 'actually slandering', since congressional immunity applies. On the other hand, letting Cummings rant on would have broken a perfect record of nothing happening.

Posted by: PersonFromPorlock at March 05, 2014 08:12 AM (lILC0)

297

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Judge of Raciss Morons at March 05, 2014 12:02 PM (baL2B)

 

Now that's some funny stuff right there.

Posted by: troyriser at March 05, 2014 08:17 AM (gNlvW)

298 Reminds me when Cumming's nephew got clipped in VA Beach, and Elijah grandstanded\throwing his weight\office around to the local LEAs, demanding some answers, and some official replied

"...and?" (well, it was more official gobblygook....)

Rep. Cummings was not happy there either....

Posted by: fred zeppelin at March 05, 2014 08:19 AM (zL/eJ)

299 Word of the Day: "Unamerican"

Pre-planned

Pre focus grouped.

My opinion.

Posted by: Mega, AoS Commenter of the Year at March 05, 2014 08:40 AM (hHFOx)

300 Elija Spermings is a Rascist Disgrace to America. Old man should retire and stop belcowning himself.

Posted by: Mark Turner at March 05, 2014 08:43 AM (BsG1N)

301 How many people suspect, as I do, that Cummings has coordinated his comments, as well as  Lerner's tactics, with her attorney?


Posted by: Rat bastard! at March 05, 2014 08:43 AM (HFSaY)

302 A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved. --Mark Twain And Mr. Cummings' mouth full of words is of little worth where void of meaning.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 05, 2014 08:53 AM (MhA4j)

303 241     rockmom

Thx for the warning of Senate vote this AM re
DOJ appointee POS.

Called Burr's office:  He voted No

Called Hagan:  She voted Yes - a real obama
hack all down the line.  She's toast.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 08:58 AM (aUQgu)

304 302   Yep

Dems coordinated totally.  Cummings knew exactly what she was going to do.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 09:01 AM (aUQgu)

305 301  ratbastard

You be right about coordination.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 05, 2014 09:02 AM (aUQgu)

306 Kind if hilarious, in a sad and pathetic way, how the Donks keep going for the "shame" chant, as if they have any idea what the word means. You know, besides "that thing we're congenitally incapable of feeling".

Posted by: PCachu at March 05, 2014 09:19 AM (r2Oug)

307 Not a smidgen of corruption??  That's retarded, sir.

The one good thing about hauling Lois Lerner-Grayson up to testify, even when she's just going to take the 5th, is that she's spending a boatload of money on attorneys fees, and getting poorer by the month.  Even if that's all she's going to do, her attorneys are billing her for 'prep' time to anticipate what Issa and those dastardly Republicans might do, in addition to the time spent coordinating with Cummings on the planned outrage.

Of course another way to hurt Lerner's bank account would be for a Republican to submit a bill (how about using the Democrat's tactics and call it the "Louis Lerner Act") that terminates all payments and benefits to a federal government employee, or former employee, if they take the 5th in relation to an action taken in their work role.   Any Democrat that opposed it could face some interesting TV ads come this fall...

Posted by: Rachel Jeantel at March 05, 2014 09:41 AM (y5bPZ)

308 Well, this will fill 300 hrs of programming time at MSNBC.

Posted by: rockhead at March 05, 2014 09:50 AM (jtTKf)

309 She just saved her own life for another day, still should avoid parks, cars,  and hospitals else she might keel herself in the back of the head,,,,,dead!

Posted by: Concealedkerry Behind Northern agression enemy lines at March 05, 2014 01:45 PM (LjjnQ)

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