In the House, a folly wrapped in a charade shrouded by farce
IRS hearings are another Republican circus
By Dana Milbank, WashPost, Wednesday, April 9, 5:13 PM
Dave Camp had a secret.
The House Ways and Means Committee chairman was ready to send the panel’s files on former IRS official Lois Lerner to the Justice Department for a possible prosecution — a handover that could have been accomplished with a simple phone call to the attorney general. Instead, Camp put on a show.
The Michigan Republican invited the press and the public to the committee’s storied hearing room Wednesday, only to call an immediate vote to kick them out. This way, the panel could meet in a secret session to debate Lerner’s fate — a dramatic but meaningless gesture because the sole purpose of the secret meeting was to authorize releasing the committee’s files on Lerner to the public.
The panel’s ranking Democrat, Sandy Levin (Mich.), asked to open up the proceedings.
(More here.)
By Dana Milbank, WashPost, Wednesday, April 9, 5:13 PM
Dave Camp had a secret.
The House Ways and Means Committee chairman was ready to send the panel’s files on former IRS official Lois Lerner to the Justice Department for a possible prosecution — a handover that could have been accomplished with a simple phone call to the attorney general. Instead, Camp put on a show.
The Michigan Republican invited the press and the public to the committee’s storied hearing room Wednesday, only to call an immediate vote to kick them out. This way, the panel could meet in a secret session to debate Lerner’s fate — a dramatic but meaningless gesture because the sole purpose of the secret meeting was to authorize releasing the committee’s files on Lerner to the public.
The panel’s ranking Democrat, Sandy Levin (Mich.), asked to open up the proceedings.
(More here.)
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Ms. Lerner could end this 'charade' by testifying. Perhaps all is well with not a smidgen of corruption. Perhaps not. Until we know I think it would be foolhardy to give the IRS the benefit of the doubt.
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