Boehner Won’t Have Lerner Arrested

What’s the fucking use of holding someone in contempt when you won’t back it up?

It’s official. Boehner and the rest of the GOP in Congress have no balls.

The House has held Lois Lerner in contempt, but it won’t use its power to place the former IRS official under arrest, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said on Sunday.
Under a precedent affirmed by the Supreme Court, each chamber of Congress can authorize its sergeant-at-arms to detain individuals it holds in contempt. But Boehner said on “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo” on Fox News that he has no interest in doing that with Lerner, whom the House last week voted to hold in contempt over her refusal to testify about her role in the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups.

“I’m not sure we want to go down that path,” Boehner said. “It’s never been used,” he said of the provision allowing Congress to arrest individuals and place them in the Capitol jail. The Senate has in fact used that power, but not in the last 80 years. “I’m not sure that it’s an appropriate way to go about this,” Boehner said.

Oh, yes it is.

Under Obama’s direction, the IRS didn’t have any trouble defining his preference of sympathetic leftwing groups over Tea Party/GOP organizations. Any request from groups with “patriot”, Tea Party”, or “conservative” in their name was automatically placed at the bottom of the pile or discarded entirely. IRS employees testified to that fact, and much more.

According to 2012 emails obtained by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, top Internal Revenue Service Obamacare official Sarah Hall Ingram discussed confidential taxpayer information with senior Obama White House officials.

Lerner also received an email alongside White House officials that contained confidential information. More emails uncover Lerner’s role in the conspiracy, including proof that she gave confidential taxpayer information to the FEC, violating federal law. She was also caught on tape discussing the pressure being put on the IRS to do something about the money being spent by conservatives on the election as a result of Citizens United.

Guess where the pressure came from.

IRS employees in Cincinnati were warned not to talk to the press “or risk losing our jobs.”

J. Christian Adams, the former DOJ attorney who blew the whistle on Holder’s refusal to prosecute the Black Panthers for voter intimidation, was himself targeted by the IRS for critical articles he published in Pajamas Media.

Obama met with top IRS official William Wilkins just before the targeting began. As a matter of fact, a Cincinnati IRS employee testified that it was quite clear the orders came from D.C.

The IRS engaged in the deliberate suppression, harassment, and intimidation of patriotic and conservative groups, and those who focus on the Constitution and criticize government spending.

Documents reveal that the IRS targeted specific groups by name.

Lerner also fed information about the watchdog group True the Vote to Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), the top Democrat on the oversight committee. True the Vote was one of the organizations Lerner targeted for discrimination.

She broke so many laws, if she were to serve time, it would be a lengthy stretch.

The contempt charge has been referred to the Justice Department, and Boehner said it is up to Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute Lerner.

“Now will he do it? We don’t know, but the ball is in his court,” Boehner said.

You’ve gotta be shitting me. Newsflash, John: Don’t expect the same Department of ‘Justice’ that has committed its own fair share of crimes to prosecute an IRS malfeasant.

The IRS scandal and the rest of the crimes committed by the Obama regime no one, including the Corruptocrat-in-Chief, is being held accountable for their crimes.

Instead, they’re paraded in front of Congressional hearings where hot air passes for real prosecution because the GOP lacks the balls to stop them.

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