Folks, if John Boehner doesn't have the most thankless job in Washington, D.C., Darrell Issa does. Don't believe me? Here is just one day in the miserable life of the House Government Affairs & Oversight Committee Chairman:
Democratic Senate investigators criticized a watchdog for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Friday for "inaccurately and unfairly" damaging public confidence in the tax agency's political impartiality.
That quote is so horrendously idiotic that it literally doesn't merit the dignity of a caustic, sardonic response. In fact, if I wasn't convinced that they believe every ridiculous word they're saying, I might change my mind and declare that Democrat Senate investigators have the most thankless job in Washington, D.C. Actually, they do anyway, they just are too idolatry-addled to realize it.
How does this affect Chairman Issa? He has to listen to this crap and somehow manage to retain his composure.
Separately on Friday, the IRS acknowledged that it had discovered the loss of more related employee emails from the 2009-2014 period being probed by Republican congressional investigators, according to a letter sent to them by the agency.
Obtained by Reuters, the letter said emails for five current or former IRS employees had been lost in a computer crash. The agency earlier this year said it had lost many emails by a former senior IRS executive, triggering another round of congressional hearings.
"The IRS has determined that five of the employees had hard-drive issues that resulted in a probable loss of emails," IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said in a statement on Friday.
The qualifier being the word "probable". Remember the 67,000 Lois Lerner emails that Commissioner Department Store Mannequin blandly insisted were lost, destroyed, erased as though they had never been, that quietly reemerged just last week? Sometime around next April or May, these emails will magically return from the same alternate dimension, and the Regime will counsel not bothering the "onerous task" of retrieving them, either.
We all know what's going on. So does Chairman Issa. But there's not a damn thing he can do about it, and both we, he, and Barack Obama know it. Which means it's Darrell Issa's job to be made a fool, an absolute mockery of, on a daily basis.
And to be forced into saying ludicrous things like this:
Darrell Issa, chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman, called for Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate.
“The so-called ‘most transparent administration in history’ has given Congress inconsistent information since the beginning of the targeting scandal,” said Issa, a California Republican.
“First, the administration denied that targeting was occurring, and then ‘rogue agents’ in a field office were blamed for the misconduct. Today, months into the congressional investigation, we’re still getting conflicting information," Issa said. "This time, it’s on the number of individuals who experienced email losses. First it was only Lois Lerner, now we learn there are 5 others, several months after the administration supposedly came clean about email losses. … This pattern must stop.”
Eric "The Red" Holder is not going to appoint a special prosecutor on anything, for any purpose, for any reason. Calling on him to do so will not ratchet up so much as a smidgeon of political pressure on the Obama Regime to do so, because remember the definition of a scandal including an all-out media campaign promoting it? What part of the Obamedia will back up and amplify Chairman Issa's call?
Thank you.
So what's left? Defunding the IRS, defunding DOJ if Holder doesn't appoint a special prosecutor, or impeaching Eric "The Red". House Republicans aren't going to do anything that incendiary two months before a midterm election in which they are expected to take the Senate back, and going after Holder directly would inevitably be racialized, of which GOPers would be terrified. And if any of you harbor any objections about, "but maybe Senate Democrats would be so 'concerned' about the magnitude of IRSgate and its coverup that they'd go along with a conviction vote," I refer you to the first quote above.
Barack Obama has carte blanche to do anything he wants, always has, and always will. And Darrell Issa's lot in life is to stand there, spluttering, "But you can't DO that!!!" knowing all the while that every word he says is untrue.
He's Chairman Dunsel. Doing a job that serves no useful purpose, having his nose rubbed in it every day.
He must keep doing it for the paycheck and benefits, because any chance of job satisfaction or sense of accomplishment went out the ol' airlock and long, long time ago, and it's never coming back.
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