That's good news, I suppose. Even though what started out as a scandal investigation will, if it hasn't already, wind up as an archeological expedition:
Representative Paul Ryan vowed Tuesday to keep investigating the IRS tea party-targeting scandal and will "keep digging" until the truth is uncovered.
Okay, Mr. Chairman (and, please don't misunderstand me, good hunting, by all means), let's say that at some indeterminate point the truth is uncovered - though it's long since been abundantly, day-glo clear. What could you do about it? Especially since IRS targeting of political enemies has already been institutionalized and is being applied in this election cycle just as it was in 2012? Impeachment (and, again, don't get me wrong, I support going for it after November 4th and the retaking of the Senate) won't go anywhere. The only thing that could undo that codified canker is regaining the White House in 2016, which is entirely dependent upon (1) Barack Obama voluntarily relinquishing power and (2) overcoming that very entrenched abuse mechanism that kept Barack Obama in power almost two years ago - both highly dubious propositions.
Exposing truth is a fine thing and all, and there is such a thing as a "duty to history". But history is written by the winners. And that's not us.
"We've got to get to the bottom of it and we've got to hold people accountable so that it doesn't happen again," Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican and chairman of the House Budget Committee, told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
You don't have the power to "hold people accountable," Mr. Chairman. If you did, Lois Lerner would be behind bars, now wouldn't she? Hell, so would John Koskinen. And I'll reiterate: targeting of conservatives is formal IRS procedure. It's designed to happen again, and again, and again, throughout eternity. And so it shall, unless you've got some whiz-bang, genius masterstroke you've been sitting on until now.
"This isn't about a witch hunt and about settling scores, this is about getting government right, in its respectful role, so that the citizen [whom] the government is supposed to work for has confidence in their own government. Right now, they don't."
Why isn't it about settling scores, Mr. Chairman? Why shouldn't it be? Do you still not grasp, after almost six years of this despotic fecality, that this is war to the death? Political war and death for now, although its literal cousin doesn't logically seem very far off. Forget the kid gloves, forget the Marquis of Queensbury rules, forget "my esteemed colleague" and "the gentleman/gentlelady from...." and "our friends on the other side of the aisle" and "he is my opponent, not my enemy". Barack Obama and his party are playing for keeps, and if you ever want to "get government right" - which is to say, annihilating the Marxist-Alinskyist filth that has destroyed the Old Republic and then resurrecting a Second American Republic from its ashes, only after which some combination of congressional action and extra-governmental efforts (i.e. a Republic Review) can reconstitutionalize the federal government back within the boundaries the Founders (the States) and the Framers (their representatives) originally established - you'll start playing their game, by their rules. Which is to say, no rules.
Of course, I understand that you can't come out and say that publicly. But that's what it's going to take. The question is, do you Pachyderms have it in you? I'd like to believe so, but there are many of my compatriots who laugh hysterically at the very suggestion.
Ryan's vow came following the bombshell disclosure by government watchdog Judicial Watch that Justice Department lawyers have admitted that every federal government email is backed up on computers.
Stop the tape. It's a "bombshell" that every federal government email is backed up on computers? Not to put too fine a point on it, but bullbleep! That's standard operating procedure. It's only a "bombshell" to anybody cement-headed enough to actually take seriously the Obama Regime's risible claims that the tens of thousands of emails from IRS officials to outside agencies, including the White House, that reflected that very Tea Party-targeting operation were specifically - and, you'll pardon the expression, "targetedly" - "lost". And now they very quietly "come clean" about the email backups, months after IRSgate long since faded from the headlines, displaced by the countless eruptions, scandals, and demigod-caused disasters that came after, and nobody is paying attention.
And still, what else did those Injustice, Revenge & Coverup Commissariat shysters caveat about their "admission"? That it would be "very difficult" and "expensive" to dig out the originally subpoenaed IRS emails and "not worth the effort". Which is why Chairman Ryan is being humiliatingly compelled to break out his pom-poms and chirp, well, "Yes! We! Can!":
"It's going to take us time to dig at this. We're not going to let this go. We're going to keep going, keep going and keep going," Ryan said.
"In many cases, they thought they could just wait this out, hope that it gets to the second page, fifth page, last page or off the pages of the newspapers and that it'll just go away.
"We're not going to let that happen….
Given how many Obama scandals are under congressional investigation, much less how many Obama scandals there are overall, the words "keep going, keep going, and keep going" are more than a little alarming. Suffice it to say, Mr. Chairman, you and your colleagues won't live long enough to "get to the bottom" of them all, or any of them, frankly, and wouldn't even if you weren't being fiercely resisted and stonewalled by the Regime inch by bloody inch. And as far as the public relations end of it is concerned, IRSgate "went away" months ago. The Regime has "waited it out". Ain't no "bombshell" gonna change that.
But you can't not admire Paul Ryan's enthusiasm. If he weren't a congressman, he'd make a great cheerleader.
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