Impeach the Impeachers
Republicans just love to impeach. Democrats truly don’t mind when they do it because it appears that impeachment makes Democrats more popular than a popsicle in the desert.
Okay, so the latest is that they want to impeach the head of the IRS.
House Republicans filed papers Tuesday to begin impeachment proceedings against IRS Commissioner John Koskinen over the agency’s alleged campaign to revoke the tax-exempt status of tea party-affiliated groups.
Hmmmmm …. that cannot be because that didn’t happen. Besides, the current head of the IRS, John Koskinen, didn’t even work at the IRS when this happened, well didn’t happen is a better term.
But Republicans still want to impeach.
To be sure, this doesn’t come completely out of the blue. The New York Times reported last week that Republicans were considering this move, though the report added that “the specifics of any supposed impeachable offenses are vague.”
Vague? No, not vague. Nonexistent. Nonexistent is not vague at all.
God bless Rep. Elijah Cummings, y’all.
“This ridiculous resolution will demonstrate nothing but the Republican obsession with diving into investigative rabbit holes that waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars while having absolutely no positive impact on a single American. Calling this resolution a ‘stunt’ or a ‘joke’ would be insulting to stunts and jokes.”
Anybody who wonders what the GOP has clowns running for president just ain’t awake.
Thanks to Bryan for the heads up.
It’s Jason Chaffetz, again. That little punter from Bang ’em Young Univ. must be suffering from TBI. Seriously. Cecile Richards humiliated him to the degree that any normal person would not appear in public without a bag over their head.
Lucky Jason seems to have been appointed as the sacrificial rabbit to be run down these phony investigative holes. And, the reason is obvious. Despite the Citizens United decision granting wide latitude for theft, the GOP is worried about anyone looking at their books revealing grander scale thefts.
Republicons pointing fingers, an act we’ve seen so often that we know it’s a ‘tell’ for what they’ve been doing as with voter fraud. Yeppers, they’re accusing, so it only follows they’ve been doing wrong again.
1Whenever the GOP want to impeach somebody, I figure that person has probably been doing a good job.
If the tea partiers did get a closer look from the IRS, good. It makes perfect sense to scrutinize the tax status of groups who set themselves up as being opposed to paying taxes. But in fact other groups, including some on the left, got the same kind of scrutiny, so the GOP claim is baseless anyway.
2Jason Chaffetz is working on his creds for admission to clown school. Isn’t there anyone in the GOP who will rein in these morons?
3He’s a hateful little spud, isn’t he?
4They are desperate for something to bang around during election year, knowing their clueless base won’t know the difference between anything real and something made up.
Cummings has become one of my favorite people up there.
5Elijah Cummings for Adult of the House of Ill Repubes.
6And not a one in the bunch calling for impeachment that could tell you why beyond a few lame soundbites.
7JK is a very bright guy. I can’t say the same thing for the half baked Repubs.
8If they do proceed and the hearings are public, we can look forward to more Repugs making themselves look like fools so have at it. This is more of the “if at first you don’t succeed, keep banging your head against the wall” Repug philosophy.
9It should be mandatory for all elected members of the House and Senate to retake a high school course in civics or at least a test before taking the oath of office. You know, so that if your party does not have two thirds of the senate, they will not waste the taxpayer’s money on stupid impeachments.
10They can talk impeachment all they want but it ain’t going nowhere cuz there’s no where there.
11I’ve seen comments about how the Repubican are planning to impeach Hillary right after she takes the oath of office.
That tells you that they know she’s going to win, But just imagine what an impeachment charge like this would do to the credibility of the republican party?
12Wingnuts have lowered the impeachment bar from lying about sex to just being appointed by Obama. Under the latter standard,no wingnuts will ever be impeachable.
13I started to ask “Are there no grownups in the RepubliCon party?” then I answered my own question. There are NO grownups in the RepubliCon party.
14@maryelle #9, their philosophy can also be summed up as:
When in danger, when in doubt,
15Run in circles, scream and shout,
Bang your head against the wall,
Make it hell for one and all.
@Kate oDubhagain
Of course you’re right. The GOP, in everything they do, act like a badly beat boxer just trying to stagger to the end of the last round to keep from having the fight called early. I expect whoever the national convention nominates will win, as well. I’m still gonna campaign like a madman because complacency will earn us a GOP/Tea Party president. And I am too old and too set in my ways to tolerate that. Puerto Penasco starts to look real good in light of that prospect.
“una cerveza más, por favor”
16All,
Because I can’t type, think and drink coffee simultaneously, there was a head-on collision several inches above the keyboard…
This “I expect whoever the national convention nominates will win, as well.” really means “I expect whoever the DEMOCRATIC national convention nominates will win, as well.”
It has been a long long day.
17It was snow flurrying here in Obrien Co,iowa within the last 20 minutes. How do you like them apples?
18Rhea, that little ditty should be our theme song while the wingnuts spew. Sung to the tune of “I’m a Little Teapot”, as in Tempest In A…
19Bless your heart Elijah Cummings.
20Rhea: Perfection!
Note to all: Impeach a government employee? Um, can someone check the constitutionality of that one? I know Congress can impeach but I was unaware it was a blanket privilege.
From a police officer explaining to me why he was arresting an unruly bar patron: Some people just make up the rules as they go along.
And so we have today’s Republican party.
21Isn’t there any method to rid us of this infestation? Would take a pretty large pest control business!
22Republicans will do anything to avoid doing the job they actually hold: investigating and impeaching they see as more fun and a lot easier than working on the real problems they should be fixing.
But they’ve locked themselves in position where they can’t do that–because doing anything constructive would anger their “base” (e.g. Kochs and others) so they have to fill up their time and appear busy somehow.
23dbTexas -this is a job for ServPro.
24JAKVirginia, the Constitution (Article 2, section 4):
The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
I found that:
25Since 1797 the House of Representatives has impeached sixteen federal officials. These include two presidents, a cabinet member, a senator, a justice of the Supreme Court, and eleven federal judges. Of those, the Senate has convicted and removed seven, all of them judges. Not included in this list are the office holders who have resigned rather than face impeachment, most notably, President Richard M. Nixon.
I thought impeachment was limited to elected officials, I sit corrected.
26I get so tired of that bullcrap IRS discrimination meme, which even the liberal commentators were buying into (Chris Matthews, retire! You’re not helping!).
It was reported that only about 25% of the groups flagged by the IRS were conservative, Tea Party types. In fact, a great many more liberal groups were questioned. But since they didn’t set their hair on fire like the Righties, that fact has been consistently ignored by all and sundry. And NONE of the groups were denied their non-profit status. Which, IMO, was the real offense committed by the IRS.
It may have been an ill-advised way for an overburdened, underfunded agency to try to get through the mountain of paperwork the had to negotiate. But there was no evidence of political bias.
And I LOVED the IRS guy when he appeared before the Committee. He took absolutely no crap from them, and gave as good as he got.
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