House votes to hold ex-IRS official in contempt

[The Straight Story]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House has voted to hold a former Internal Revenue Service official in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify at a pair of committee hearings about her role in the agency's tea party controversy.

Lois Lerner directed the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. A year ago, Lerner publicly disclosed that agents had improperly singled out tea party applications for extra, sometimes burdensome scrutiny.

An inspector general's report blamed poor management but found no evidence of a political conspiracy. Many Republicans in Congress believe otherwise.

http://www.wsfa.com/story/25454334/house-votes-to-hold-ex-irs-official-in-contempt

[Bjorn Against]

1. The claim that they singled out the Tea Party is a lie

The only people who singled out the Tea Party were the "investigators" who who ordered by the Republicans to only look into cases of the Tea Party having their tax exempt status scrutinized, progressive groups were being scrutinized as well but the partisan investigation purposely ignored them.

[randys1]

2. America is under attack from vile, vicious terrorists, you know them as the Republican party

[Gothmog]

3. This contempt vote will not stand

Back in the McCarthy era, the House attempted to hold people asserting their 5th amendment rights in contempt and the courts struck down these attempts. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/lois-lerner-contempt-vote_n_5283001.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

The House voted 231 to 187 along party lines Wednesday to hold Lerner in contempt. It's a step Congress hasn't taken since the McCarthy era, when it tried nine times to hold people in contempt for pleading the Fifth.

None of the votes have been upheld by the courts, but Republicans said that they had a responsibility to act.

The GOP also blew this vote procedurally earlier in the process according to Ranking Member Cummings

[Politicalboi]

4. Some things never change

Skip to 5:45 mark.

There's an organization of shrude determined men, who have been trying to get control of this country for a number of years, perhaps you've heard of them.

Ms Hienshcmitt: Oh you mean the Republicans.