Holder Tells Cruz: No Special Prosecutor For IRS Abuse

by JASmius

I really and truly hope that Senator Cruz was conducting an exercise in a worthy version of public education by this otherwise pointless exercise, whose inevitable punchline has now thuddingly landed:

Attorney General Eric Holder has denied Senator Ted Cruz's demand for a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS's targeting of tea party groups – a rejection the Texas Republican is slamming as "the height of hypocrisy" by the Obama administration.

The tea party favorite had called for the appointment on January 22nd, writing the nation's top prosecutor that it had been eight months "since both you and President Obama professed outrage at the IRS's wrongful conduct," and yet no legal action had been taken.

But in a March 10th reply, the Department of Justice curtly asserted "such an appointment is not warranted" because the case doesn't present a conflict of interest, adding that "career prosecutors and law-enforcement professionals" were conducting the probe.

"The Department remains committed to integrity and fairness in all of its law-enforcement efforts, without regard to politics," the letter stated. It was signed by Peter Kadzik, principal deputy assistant attorney general.

All snark aside, and in all cardiac seriousness: Is anybody surprised by this outcome?

Never in the field of human conflict has a case more anencephaly (i.e. it's a no-brainer) merited an independent counsel investigation than IRSgate.  Blatantly illegal abuse of power by the Executive Branch against partisans of the opposition party for flagrantly political purposes?  How could that not require an independent investigation to ensure a fair and even-handed outcome?

And how could anybody, much less Ted Cruz, believe for a single, solitary femtosecond that there was any chance at any point that Eric "The Red" would concur with so obvious a conclusion?  Remember, creatures of the latter's breed see EVERYTHING through a politicoideological lens and ALWAYS use power to ruthlessly vicious partisan ends in precisely the same way that they use lies and propaganda to lay siege to their GOP enemies when they're out of power.

Recall, for example, when President Bush dismissed a number of U.S. attorneys - not all of them, just a few, not even a dozen, as I recall - and the newly minted Donk majorities on Capitol Hill absolutely flipped.  Somehow it was the biggest scandal in American history that a Republican president might want to replace some U.S. attorneys - entirely within his Executive authority - with replacements more simpatico with his judicial/prosecutorial views, even though one of Bill Clinton's first acts upon assuming power in 1993 was the firing of EVERY U.S. attorney for transparently "self-interested" reasons.  In short, Dems trumped up "US Attorney-gate" because it was a pale shadow of what they would have done in Dubya's shoes.

And what did they demand?  An independent counsel/special prosecutor, of course.  And while they didn't get one, Donks did use this empty kerfuffle (along with others) to hound Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales out of the Justice Department and into political and professional exile.

Fast-forward seven years.  Now a Democrat Regime has engaged in tyrannical excesses that dwarf Watergate, and calls that they reciprocate are met with chortling, intelligence-insulting contempt.  Hard to describe it any other way when it's noted that the investigator in the risible Injustice & Revenge Commissariat "probe" is a partisan donor to Barack Obama and Democratic causes.  But that doesn't constitute a conflict of interest, you see.  Why?  Because the "Tea Baggers" had it coming, that's why.

Why is Eric "The Red" indulging in this blatant bird-flipping?  For the same reason a lion licks his privates - because he can.  He's holding all the cards; he's got all the power; he knows that he doesn't have to do a damn thing no matter how shrilly Ted Cruz or Jay Sekulow scream, not even if a divine miracle happened and Congress moved to impeach and remove Holder and his misbegotten demigod for their numerous high crimes and misdemeanors.  That is the Obama Legacy: the amputation of power from legal authority.  It's the essence of why the Old American Republic is dead.

What I can't figure out is whether Senator Cruz is continuing the performance art exercise for the benefit of the enslaved American public or he really believes he was going to get a special prosecutor:

On Wednesday, Cruz shot back at the Justice department rejection, calling it "the height of hypocrisy for the Obama Administration to claim that the investigator leading the investigation into the IRS's illegal program has no conflict of interest."

"Sadly … Eric Holder has chosen to reject the bipartisan tradition of the Department of Justice of putting rule of law above political allegiance," Cruz said, citing attorneys general who've named special prosecutors to investigate Watergate under President Richard Nixon and the Monica Lewinsky scandal under President Bill Clinton.

As you had to know he was going to do, Senator.  And as I can't believe you're capable of this level of naivete, you have to be engaged in an election year effort at manipulating the Democrats into illustrating for voters' benefit just how despotic they really are.

Right?  Please?  Because otherwise this is just embarrassing.