Elijah Cummings is a lying weasel

News today revealed that the IRS scandal was more outrageous and far reaching than anyone believed. It extends to the United States Congress. Ranking minority Elijah Cummings and his staff are complicit in the conspiracy to target Catherine Engelbrecht and her True the Vote organization. Members of the minority staff contacted Lois Lerner and obtained True the Vote's 990 forms through Lerner's subordinate Holly Paz. In 2012 Engelbrecht received almost identical questions from the IRS and the minority staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Congressman Cummings and the Democratic members of the committed have urged that the investigation be brought to a hasty conclusion. Now their reason becomes patently obvious. Cummings is as guilty as Lerner. A letter to Cummings signed by Issa and all 5 subcommittee chairmen concludes;
As the committee continues to investigate the IRS's wrongdoing and to gather all relevant testimonial and documentary evidence, the American people deserve to know the full truth. They deserve to know why the Ranking Member and Minority staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform surreptitiously contacted the IRS about an individual organization without informing the Majority Staff and even failed to disclose the contact after it became an issue during a subcommittee proceeding.
The public deserves a full and truthful explanation for these actions. We ask that you explain the full extent of you and your staff's communications with the IRS and why you chose to keep communications with the IRS from Majority Members and staff even after it became a subject of controversy.
Also in the latest email trove finally delivered by the IRS was the revelation that Lois Lerner had thought about going to work for Organizing for Action, the group that funneled millions of dollars to Obama’s campaign efforts while she was engineering an audit of Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS. “Oh, maybe I can get the D.C. office job.” the email reads. No conflict of interest here.
As if the actions of the Tax Exempt Division were not bad enough the illegal campaign activities at the Dallas IRS should convince any objective observer that the IRS is imbued with partisanship. The office looked liked an Obama campaign field office. The staff used Obama screen savers on their computers and had campaign-style buttons and stickers at their office. This is not rumor. This comes from the IRS's own Office of Special Counsel. In Kentucky another IRS employee assigned to the help line inveighed against Mitt Romney and the Republicans. “They’re going to take women back 40 years,” the IRS employee said in a conversation that was recorded. The employee also said that “if you vote for a Republican, the rich are going to get richer and the poor are going to get poorer.”
Later today the House will vote to demand that Lois Lerner be investigated by the Justice Department for targeting specific taxpayers for adverse treatment, making misleading statements to law enforcement, and the possible disclosure of confidential taxpayer information. It will interesting to see how many Democrats want to go down with this ship.
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