Jesus. I knew this was happening, but I guess I didn’t really know it was happening:
The House Judiciary Committee’s decision to hold hearings a week from today on whether to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen is a victory for the chamber’s far-right caucus, still smarting over the agency’s treatment of conservative groups.
….One of the biggest questions now is whether the 76-year-old tax commissioner will show up for the grilling. IRS officials said Monday they have made no decision on whether Koskinen will accept the Judiciary committee’s invitation to appear May 24 and at a hearing in June.
They’re really and truly going forward with this farce? Somehow this stuff continues to surprise me even though it certainly shouldn’t by this point.
I think it must absolutely enrage Republicans that Barack Obama has very plainly run one of the cleanest, least scandalous administrations in recent history. Not mistake free, but scandal free. Nonetheless, they keep trying and trying and trying to find something that proves he’s the Chicago thug they keep saying he is, and they keep coming up empty. They’ve spent collective decades investigating Fast & Furious, Benghazi, Solyndra, the IRS, and anything else they can think of, and they keep coming up empty handed. There’s never anything there aside from a bit of the usual bureaucratic bungling you can find anyplace in a gigantic organization if you look for it.
So now they’re going hold pointless impeachment hearings on an IRS commissioner who only has eight months left to serve anyway? What a bunch of loons.
