[THEHILL] The House Oversight Committee is unlikely to consider potential contempt charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner this week, a GOP aide said Monday.
Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) had said that he could move on holding Lerner in contempt this week, after the former head of an IRS tax-exempt division invoked her Fifth Amendment rights for a second time on Wednesday. But Issa likely won't meet that timeline, after a dust-up between the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Republican and the top Democrat on the Oversight panel, Rep. Elijah Cummings ...Representative-for-life from Maryland, representing half of Baltimore City, which makes his district ultra-safe, and most of Howard County, which is out-populated by the city. Cummings' politix are so liberal they're tedious... (Md.), dominated headlines late last week.
Frederick Hill, a front man for Issa, said separately Monday that: "As required by the rules, a business meeting announcement and contempt report will give members at least three business days notice."
The House is scheduled to be out of Washington next week, meaning the Oversight panel would probably be unable to consider contempt charges before late March.
Congressional Republicans have intensified their interest in the IRS in recent months, with GOP politicians insisting that all roads in their investigation lead back to Lerner.
But the confrontation between Issa and Cummings on Wednesday -- the Oversight chairman used a throat-slashing gesture to cut the Democrat's microphone -- overshadowed Lerner's return to the Oversight hearing room. Issa apologized to Cummings on Thursday after Democrats called for stripping him of the Oversight gavel.
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Hopefully they've moved on to the 'public flogging and execution phase.'
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This reinforces my opinion that Issa is all hat and no saddle; starts a big dust up but can't close the deal. This is not the first time he's come up short.
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She and her family have been threatened--she could depose off record and go into Protective Custody if she really spills all. Being targeted herself has her scared sh*tless...I hope Issa does it swiftly before her accelerator gets stuck on the way home.
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Some of her emails have been released. She was in it up to her eyebrows.
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Concern Citizens United hurting Democrats: Lerner believed the Executive Branch needed to take steps to undermine the Supreme Courts Citizens United decision. A senior advisor to Lerner e-mailed her an article about allegations that unknown conservative donors were influencing U.S. Senate races. The article explained how outside money was making it increasingly difficult for Democrats to remain in the majority in the Senate. Lerner replied: Perhaps the FEC will save the day. p. 21. Link
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] Despite Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Abel P. Upshur ... 's promise that she had scrubbed illegal cash contributions from her 2008 presidential campaign, prosecutors revealed Monday that the criminal mastermind of Mayor Vincent C. Gray's "shadow campaign" also funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to aid Mrs. Clinton's bid for the White House.
Jeffrey E. Thompson's scheme included diverting more than $608,000 in illicit funds to a New York marketing executive, Troy White, who organized "street teams" to raise Mrs. Clinton's visibility in urban areas during her Democratic primary battle against Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... . Mr. White pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in the case.
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Must be some Germanic method of shorting the term... 'Clinton D.C. Scandal.'
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Obama's prosecutors are going after Dinesh D'Souza for illegal campaign funding. He is accused of funneling money through straw donors to a candidate. The difference between what is going on with Hillary and D'Souza is that what Hillary's campaign is accused of doing is probably true. D'Souza also is a conservative. Moreover, he makes films that dig into Dear Learder's ego.
[BREITBART] The 300,000-member union that was the first to endorse then-Senator Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... has released a devastating Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... report that says Obama's controversial healthcare program will slash worker wages by up to $5 an hour, reduce worker hours, and exacerbate income inequality.
The report by Unite Here--a North American labor union that represents workers in the hotel, gaming, food service, manufacturing, textile, distribution, laundry, and airport industries--is titled: "The Irony of Obamacare: Making Inequality Worse."
"Ironically, the Administration's own signature healthcare victory poses one of the most immediate challenges to redressing inequality," states the 12-page report. "We take seriously the promise that 'if you like your health plan, you can keep it. Period.' UNITE HERE members like their health plans."
The report features first-person testimonials and photos of union members describing how Obamacare is personally hurting them and their families--the same kinds of stories that Majority Senator Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... said are "all untrue" and that progressive New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... columnist Paul Krugman mocked as"nonexistent" in his piece "Health Care Horror Hooey."
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In the mean time Union thugs and mindless membership robots, don't forget that YOU and your cohorts voted for the evil, communist bastid not once, but twice.
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Union rank and file, think about this, if you were old enough: Were you better off under Reagan than Obumble? For the younger ones, were you better off in 2004 than 2014?
Now think again about voting for a conservative, if one is running.
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Obamacare causes a huge transfer of wealth away from the middle class to those who get ObamaPhones, food stamps and welfare and vote Democrat. The middle class is making less in wages as the result. More and more employers are cutting back employee hours and jobs.
The union is bailing out on Obama? Is that an unintended consequence of government meddling? Will they still vote for a Donk in upcoming elections? Probably. The unions and the insurance companies supported Obamacare from the outset. According to this article, the insurance companies are the ones getting the benefits. Unions not getting their share of the largess? Is that the issue? So far as I can see the middle class, and doctors and patients are the ones who have been screwed by Obamacare.
Something has to change in this country. Soon all those who get stuff from the government will outnumber those who pay for it. Those who get stuff will always vote for those who give them stuff.
By the way, according to Harry Reid (D), those people cited in the union report who got shafted by Obamacare (they are now paying much more than they were previously) are all liars.
[THEHILL] Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has a nearly 40-point lead over his primary challenger, Matt Bevin, in a new Republican survey of the Kentucky Senate GOP primary.
The survey, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies for the pro-McConnell group Kentuckians for Strong Leadership, gives McConnell 61 percent support to Bevin's 23 percent support.
That's an increase in support from an early-February independent survey of the race, which showed McConnell ahead by only 26 points. But it's actually a decrease from the last GOP survey of the race, conducted by Wenzel Strategies at the start of February, which gave him a 42-point lead.
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In areas where Democrats stand no chance of winning, they flock over to the Republican primary and vote for the Rhinos. That is how Rhinos hold on to power.
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Citizens, registered voters, likely voters, or likely Republican voters? Only the last two interest me, and only the last if only the pre-registered as Republicans are allowed to vote in the primary.
In Ohio one can register for one of the parties as one signs in to vote, in which case "likely voters" is what counts.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] As the March 31 Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... sign-up deadline nears, Planned Parenthood ...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party. is going to bat for the White House, hosting more than 500 events in 18 cities to get Americans into the health insurance system.
In eight states, officials from the women's health and abortion provider will go to grocery stories and even indoor soccer fields to enroll people. It also plans to dispatch 500 canvassers to knock on 20,000 doors.
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Teaching people how to prevent people, they've come to the surface and broke the water. The Holy Grail of Obamacare has surfaced.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[THEHILL] The House Oversight Committee is unlikely to consider potential contempt charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner this week, a GOP aide said Monday.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Please, no more golf jokes. These funerals are supposed to be solemn. 
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