John Boehner’s answer to Faux News about why he hasn’t had Lois Lerner
arrested revealed that the true motive behind this faux scandal is
impeaching Attorney General Holder and/or President Obama.
When asked why he won’t arrest Lois Lerner, Boehner told Faux News,
“There is a provision in the Constitution that has never been used, and
so that’s I’m not quite sure we want to go down that path…It’s never
been used….I’m not the historian here, but it’s never been used, and I’m
not sure that’s the appropriate way to go about this. It’s up to Eric
Holder to do his job.”
Speaker Boehner let the cat out of the bag, with his referrals to
Attorney General Holder doing his job. The point of all of this isn’t to
get Lerner. House repugicans don’t really care about Lois Lerner. What
they are really after is something that they can use against Holder and
Obama.
If Holder were to refuse to prosecute Lerner, repugicans could claim
that the decision is proof of a coverup. They could then launch an
investigation into the White House’s “role in the IRS scandal” which
they hope would drag down the Obama administration, ruin Hillary
Clinton’s chances for 2016, and chase Holder and Obama from office.
The facts have already proven that the IRS targeted both liberal and wingnut groups, and that the White House had nothing to do with it.
House repugicans are using the IRS faux scandal to distract from the
fact that they have shutdown the government, refused to extend
unemployment benefits, rejected any serious job creation bill that has
been proposed, worked some of the lightest schedules in the history of
the Congress, and generally refused to pass anything that isn’t a repeal
of Obamacare, tax cut for the wealthy, or rollback of an environmental
regulation.
The IRS and Benghazi are both unspoken admissions that if repugicans
don’t find some scandal to attach to President Obama, they will lose in
2016. The current scandal mania does give repugican House members
something to run on in 2014, but they are also trying to lay the
groundwork for 2016. Without a scandal, repugicans will have nothing to
run against Hillary Clinton with.
The repugicans are out to smear, and if possible, impeach. House repugicans are desperately trying to convert their conspiracy theories
into real scandals, so don’t be surprised if try to go down the
impeachment path as a last ditch effort save themselves from losing
another presidential election.
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