A few thoughts on round one of today's House Oversight
Committee's IRS hearings:
(1) Right out of
the gate, Democrats' top priority was attacking Chairman Issa -- accusing him
of overreaching and conducting committee business in an overly partisan manner.
Ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings also asserted his desire to "get to the
bottom" of the IRS scandal, intoning that he's seeking, "the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."
But just last month, he
called the IRS affair "solved." Rep. Gerry Connolly,
a liberal from Virginia, spent his entire question period upbraiding Issa and
launching pre-emptive strikes against the Inspector General, who will testify later.
He did not ask a single question of the witnesses. Democrats also launched
broadsides against Mitch McConnell and Marco Rubio over statements those
Senators have made about the IRS.........
I'll leave you -- for now -- with Chairman Issa's USA Today op/ed explaining
why new information definitively ties the IRS scandal to
Washington, DC (which the IRS initially denied), and his opening statement from
this morning's hearing:....To Read More....
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