Lois Lerner to take the 5th. Again.

[Oldstyle]

Wonders how many people would be able to keep their job if they pleaded the 5th to their bosses/employer?

Probably none.

But she lost her job, that's the point.

So really, it's not like they can threaten her with much of anything else at this point, is there?

Your ignorance of what really happens in the world you live in, continues to amaze, Joe! Lois Lerner was placed on administrative leave...which means we tax payers got to keep paying her salary and benefits while she sat on her ass at home. Lerner didn't resign until September, four months AFTER the story broke. She resigned with her pension and benefits intact...even as she refused to answer questions about what happened in her department at the IRS. In essence we gave Lois a four month paid vacation for her actions! Isn't the Federal Government wonderful!!!

What they need to threaten Lois Lerner with is jail time.

 

[mudwhistle]

Ask Karl Rove, Josh Bolton, Harriet Myers...Oliver North...

None of them have their jobs anymore.

Thick as a brick.

I know you are.......

If you're the resident government troll you suck at it.

 

[The Rabbi]

Wonders how many people would be able to keep their job if they pleaded the 5th to their bosses/employer?

Probably none.

But she lost her job, that's the point.

So really, it's not like they can threaten her with much of anything else at this point, is there?

You're really stupid, aren't you? Maybe just ignorant.
Lois Lerner put on administrative leave by IRS

 

[mudwhistle]

Wonders how many people would be able to keep their job if they pleaded the 5th to their bosses/employer?

Probably none.

But she lost her job, that's the point.

So really, it's not like they can threaten her with much of anything else at this point, is there?

Nothing much, other than obstruction of justice.

That's a felony.

 

[mudwhistle]

Wonders how many people would be able to keep their job if they pleaded the 5th to their bosses/employer?

Probably none.

But she lost her job, that's the point.

So really, it's not like they can threaten her with much of anything else at this point, is there?

You're really stupid, aren't you? Maybe just ignorant.
Lois Lerner put on administrative leave by IRS

Dude, she resigned last September.

 

[whitehall]

Democrat politicians swore to uphold the law and the Constitution. Aren't they curious about what Ms Lerner is hiding? If a member of the Nixon administration ever took the 5th the media would have his head on a platter. Barry Hussein makes Nixon look like a choir boy. Obama lied and people died.

 

[paperview]

Democrat politicians swore to uphold the law and the Constitution. Aren't they curious about what Ms Lerner is hiding? If a member of the Nixon administration ever took the 5th the media would have his head on a platter. Barry Hussein makes Nixon look like a choir boy. Obama lied and people died.

Wow.

Nixon.

Ollie North bub.

And Carl Rove, Josh Bolton, Harriet Myers refused to testify as well. Don;t even have to go back to the corrupt Nixon Administration.

 

[1776]

What Nixon did is a joke compared to obama using the IRS to target conservatives in order to win an election.

 

[bripat9643]

Democrat politicians swore to uphold the law and the Constitution. Aren't they curious about what Ms Lerner is hiding? If a member of the Nixon administration ever took the 5th the media would have his head on a platter. Barry Hussein makes Nixon look like a choir boy. Obama lied and people died.

Democrat politicians put the IRS up to what it's doing. They demanded the arrest of TEA Party members for having the temerity to use the First Amendment rights. They are all knee deep in this. A large number of them should be arrested. the Democrat party is nothing more than an organized criminal gang.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Poor Elijah Cummings really threw a fit today.

Maybe he forgot that the Congress he's so proud to be a member of, voted to put that committee in place and approved it to ask all these questions.

He might not have voted in favor, but hey, them's the breaks. He still has to obey the majority, just as Republicans had to for fifty-plus years.

I don't recall Republicans throwing the kind of temper tantrum he did, all those fifty-plus years.

Sounds like he's not used to be in a minority position in the House. Well, sorry. Someone's got to be. and he's elected to be it.

He can always resign if he doesn't like it.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

What Nixon did is a joke compared to obama using the IRS to target conservatives in order to win an election.

Utter nonsense, even if true.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Throw the bitch in jail for contempt.

She will talk once living in a jail cell.....unless Obama kills her in the jail cell.

Okay, you're a nutter.

 

[bripat9643]

Democrat politicians swore to uphold the law and the Constitution. Aren't they curious about what Ms Lerner is hiding? If a member of the Nixon administration ever took the 5th the media would have his head on a platter. Barry Hussein makes Nixon look like a choir boy. Obama lied and people died.

Wow.

Nixon.

Ollie North bub.

And Carl Rove, Josh Bolton, Harriet Myers refused to testify as well. Don;t even have to go back to the corrupt Nixon Administration.

When did Carl Rove, John Bolton or Harriet Myers take the 5th? For that matter, when did anyone in the Nixon administration take the 5th?

 

[bripat9643]

What Nixon did is a joke compared to obama using the IRS to target conservatives in order to win an election.

Utter nonsense, even if true.

It's not nonsense. This IRS campaign to persecute conservatives is far worse than anything Nixon did. Nixon only discussed using the IRS to attack his enemies. He didn't actually do it.

 

[The T]

Probably none.

But she lost her job, that's the point.

So really, it's not like they can threaten her with much of anything else at this point, is there?

You're really stupid, aren't you? Maybe just ignorant.
Lois Lerner put on administrative leave by IRS

Dude, she resigned last September.

And retired with FULL benefits. What a gig!

 

[JoeB131]

Wonders how many people would be able to keep their job if they pleaded the 5th to their bosses/employer?

Probably none.

But she lost her job, that's the point.

So really, it's not like they can threaten her with much of anything else at this point, is there?

Your ignorance of what really happens in the world you live in, continues to amaze, Joe! Lois Lerner was placed on administrative leave...which means we tax payers got to keep paying her salary and benefits while she sat on her ass at home. Lerner didn't resign until September, four months AFTER the story broke. She resigned with her pension and benefits intact...even as she refused to answer questions about what happened in her department at the IRS. In essence we gave Lois a four month paid vacation for her actions! Isn't the Federal Government wonderful!!!

What they need to threaten Lois Lerner with is jail time.

Um, yeah, under what pretext?

For refusing to participate in their dog and pony show.

They really have NO evidence that she actually committed any crimes. None. Zip. Zero. Everything she did can be reasonably argued to be within the scope of her job.

Congress doesn't even have the authority to throw her in prison.

And frankly, guy, I'm just not seeing what the upset is. The Teabaggers tried to scam the IRS, the IRS caught them doing it. That's what the IRS is supposed to do.

 

[JoeB131]

Wonders how many people would be able to keep their job if they pleaded the 5th to their bosses/employer?

Probably none.

But she lost her job, that's the point.

So really, it's not like they can threaten her with much of anything else at this point, is there?

Nothing much, other than obstruction of justice.

That's a felony.

Not really.

You know if you guys went down the bill of rights beyond your bizarre reading of the Second Amendment, there's this little thing called the Fifth Amendment. She doesn't have to testify.

Get it?

Now, yeah, they could grant her transactional immunity, but then they run the risk that she'll pull an Ollie North and completely take all the blame, knowing she can't be charged.

 

[mudwhistle]

What Nixon did is a joke compared to obama using the IRS to target conservatives in order to win an election.

Utter nonsense, even if true.

Did Nixon use the IRS to attack opponents, or is the left using false claims of it as an excuse for Obama to do it?

Yes and absolutely.

 

[JoeB131]

What Nixon did is a joke compared to obama using the IRS to target conservatives in order to win an election.

Utter nonsense, even if true.

Did Nixon use the IRS to attack opponents, or is the left using false claims of it as an excuse for Obama to do it?

Yes and absolutely.

Except after Nixon, the IRS was set up as a separate entity.

The IRS decided on its own that, hey, groups that say "Let them Die" really aren't "Social Welfare Agencies".

 

[mudwhistle]

Probably none.

But she lost her job, that's the point.

So really, it's not like they can threaten her with much of anything else at this point, is there?

Nothing much, other than obstruction of justice.

That's a felony.

Not really.

You know if you guys went down the bill of rights beyond your bizarre reading of the Second Amendment, there's this little thing called the Fifth Amendment. She doesn't have to testify.

Get it?

Now, yeah, they could grant her transactional immunity, but then they run the risk that she'll pull an Ollie North and completely take all the blame, knowing she can't be charged.

If she claims in a prepared statement that nothing was going on and then claims the fifth, that's lying to congress, for which she can be held in contempt, and obstruction of justice. If the Republicans were really out to get at the facts they'd have her in jail right now. I don't know what they're up to other than trying to make some kind of show of it. It's clear that the IRS is breaking several privacy laws and abusing their authority. There is evidence that it is being used to destroy people's ability to chose the candidates they want.

Several rights are being breached here, and that is why Lerner plead the 5th.

Freedom from illegal search and seizure.
Freedom of expression
Freedom of thought
Rights to free elections
Protection from discrimination
No punishment without laws