Discussion: GOPers Tout Slick IRS Conspiracy Film In Hearing Pushing Official's Impeachment

This is what is know as the circle jerk prosecution. Produce a video (or have a ‘friend’ tape/whisper etc.) a ‘theory’, then use that ‘theory’ to bring a case citing said theory…nothing is ‘right’, nothing is ‘factual’ but by GOD someone leaked it and the GOPper in charge will use it to ‘prove’ they are ‘correct’. Uh huh.

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At least twice during last Tuesday’s hearing, House Republicans cited Wikipedia to assert their arguments as to why impeachment proceedings for Koskinen should go forward.

Can I edit the Constitution and the United States Code on Wikipedia?

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The only thing scandalous about the whole “IRS scandal” is that they approved blatantly political Tea Party groups for special tax statuses reserved for non-political organizations.

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Who the fnck uses a Blackberry?

I was only gone for a minute, and now it’s 2002?

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ummmm

the Pentagon’s cutting edge technology is still 8" floppy discs… they probably have to use 360 MB plate disc packs too…

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From the article:

“It bore a closer resemblance to a campaign attack ad than to the sort of the evidence typically provided in a congressional hearing.”

And I am forced to say,

Well no shit!

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Chaffetz is just another tea party pig wallowing at the trough of public money to power political inquisitions. We need to get this disease out of Congress stat!

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Chaffetz real forte is prostitution scandals. Why is is wasting his talents with this nonsense? Chaffetz knows prostitution, fair market prices, merchandise quality, the whole enchilada. Why mess with that kind of track record? Beyond that the guy has David Vitter on speed dial.

Doesn’t there need to be an actual crime in order to impeach?!?!? so what’s his crime? AWD [Administering while democrat]? SUO [Serving under Obama]?

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“I found the video to be very artistic. … I would say it was professionally produced,” Johnson mused, which Chaffetz called a “huge compliment.”

Um…will someone please tell the clueless Congressman that wasn’t a compliment. It’s actually questioning the evidentiary import of said video.

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Where’s the outtake reel, the bloopers, the shot of Chafetz in a director’s chair wearing riding jodhpurs and shouting directions with a megaphone? That’s the artistic creation America wants to see.

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Guilt by accusation and accusation only. This is what this panel is attempting to do.

That they have violated decorum and all dignity expected of such a group is of no consideration. Let them bamboozle.

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FWIW, I work for the government, and anytime somebody’s computer is replaced, the hard drive must be destroyed. Not formatted, not overwritten with zeros, but taken apart and smashed. That’s the rule. We have a collection of the powerful neodymium magnets from them around the office, they’re pretty cool.

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So the chair of the House Oversight Committee doesn’t know the procedures of the agency of which he is investigating? Hmm?