Of course. This is evidently "enraging" some conservatives, but I realized six years ago that if I were going to be outraged and enraged by everything the Obamunists were going to do over however long a period of time their misrule would span, I'd be dead before I reached....well, now. Probably long before. So I learned to pace myself by taking deep refuge in my vast reservoir of natural inherent cynicism.
Consequently, when I saw just the headline, I doubled over in uncontrollable sardonic laughter so quickly that I almost bounced my head off of my desktop like a basketball:
Five months after the Internal Revenue Service deemed that emails sent by former official Lois Lerner had been lost forever, the Treasury Department's inspector general told Congress on Friday that as many as 30,000 might have been found — and conservatives were outraged.
"Nothing they do surprises me," Washington attorney Cleta Mitchell told Newsmax of the latest development in the agency's targeting scandal of tea party groups. "Nothing they fail to do surprises me.
"I have no reason to think that this is everything," she added. "Now, what I would like to see them do is for the IRS to actually respond to all the subpoenas that have been issued to them by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in the last year and a half.
"That would be the best thing they could do: just go ahead and answer all the subpoenas and do what you're supposed to do," Mitchell said.
Never mind the details. If you want to wade through them, follow the link. They're probably all horse manure anyway. Hell, this Treasury Commissariat I-G may be shoveling with both hands. Which has kinda always been the point of this entire sordid saga: Ceaselessly fusillade so much crap that it would be impossible to discern whatever shards of truth might accidentally get mixed up in it.
If anything, I think Ms. Mitchell is selling the Regime short on the creativity of their mendacities. It may turn out that these thirty thousand emails aren't from Lois G. Lerner, but Lois "Slow" Lerner, all pertaining to special education issues, kitten photos, and muffin recipes. Or they may be LGL's emails, but all be redacted. Or Treasury poobahs may next announce that the thirty thousand Lerner emails may be irretrievably "corrupted," kicking the can down the road even further.
If there's one thing we ought to have learned by now, it's that (1) nobody is better than the Obama Regime at The Fine Art of Delay, and (2) they are playing with us like a cat batting around a mouse, and they always have been. This isn't an investigation of IRSgate, it's a travesty and mockery of justice perpetrated by a criminal enterprise that has all the power, is in absolutely no danger or jeopardy of losing it, and is simply amusing itself by figuratively pulling off our wings while giggling maniacally.
Regrettably, even now, not many of us have learned that lesson. Or, at the very least, far too many feel compelled to continue jumping through the Regime's humiliating hoops like trained seals:
Mitchell told Newsmax that the discovery proved that both Koskinen and his predecessor, Douglas Shulman, should be prosecuted for perjury for their congressional testimony.
"These people have filed things under oath with the judicial branch of government — in our lawsuit and other lawsuits," she said. "They have provided statements to Congress. They’re totally dishonest."
Wouldn't that require the Obama Injustice, Revenge & Coverup Commissariat to do the prosecuting, Ms. Mitchell? You do see where this is going, don't you?
Trust me, Cleta, learn to enjoy a hearty cynical guffaw instead. You'll live a lot longer.
Exit thought: For those Republicans who think they can rein in Barack Obama's rampaging abuses of power via the federal courts, you might want to ponder this postscript:
The federal lawsuits Mitchell filed against the IRS in the targeting scandal also were dismissed last month.
"The judge dismissed our cases because he was confident that the IRS had stopped the targeting," she said. "It was a completely ridiculous ruling."
One client, True the Vote, will not challenge the decision.
"They just believe it's hopeless," Mitchell said, adding that the group "has been totally discouraged by the courts."
As the late Gorilla Monsoon used to say, "One lies and the other one swears to it". What else could one expect after The One has had six years to "fundamentally transform" the federal judiciary?
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