Well, that goes without saying:
Former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner engaged in an “aggressive and improper pursuit” of Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, a nonprofit political group advised by Republican Karl Rove, according to the House Ways and Means Committee.
Yes!
Lerner’s intervention should be investigated by the Justice Department as a crime because she treated Republican-leaning groups unfairly, the committee said in a letter published after a two-hour closed session today.Dammit!
Seriously. That's where this Reuters story functionally ends. For the same reasons that he unwittingly - or perhaps wittingly - made abundantly clear anew yesterday, there is no way on the great, green hills of Earth that Eric "The Red" Holder is going to genuinely investigate any aspect of IRS-gate, much less the principle perp in carrying out Barack Obama's orders to abuse the IRS to crush Tea Party groups in the 2012 election cycle. Particularly in light of the same strategy now having been formalized into IRS rules and policy for the current one. He won't because (1) he doesn't want to enforce laws against political allies for the benefit and succor of political enemies; (2) even if he did, or felt duty-bound to put aside his partisan interests and do so anyway, his boss wouldn't allow it; and (3) he has, as he boasted yesterday, "a vast amount of discretion" - which is to say, power - in enforcing the various and sundry laws. Not constitutionally or legally, but in terms of sheer, raw, unencumbered, usurped power.
So this Ways & Means letter, noble and well-intentioned as it is, will go on the pile with all the other contemptuously ignored subpoenas, contempt of Congress citations, etc., there to molder in neglected, forgotten obscurity, until either the Democrats take back the House, O awards it to them by Executive decree, or the Sweet Meteor of Death puts us out of our misery.
It's not pleasant to hear, but don't say nobody warned you.
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