BREAKING: House Committee Introduces Resolution to Impeach IRS Chief

[Classic Conservative]

It's breaking on Fox right now.

[YaBoyNY]

Another idiotic waste of time and money by Congressional Republicans.

[Phony Moderate]

Don't know what this is about, but the hatred for the IRS in general is a bit baffling. Isn't their job to enforce, rather than to make, the tax laws?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Don't know what this is about, but the hatred for the IRS in general is a bit baffling. Isn't their job to enforce, rather than to make, the tax laws?

To be fair, the IRS has been known to be used rather selectively by Presidents. Ask Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. I'm sure Clinton, Bush, and Obama are just as guilty.

[Torie]

The IRS Commissioner is a total partisan hack ahole, but impeachable for high crimes and misdemeanors? A host of Pubs keep wanting to do these silly Quixotic Quests, without being sensitive to the details of the rules of law and precedent, knowing full that it's all symbolic, so there is no consequence to their actions.

[Gass3268]

Another idiotic waste of time and money by Congressional Republicans.

[bedstuy]

Aren't they just angry that the "IRS SCANDAL!!!!" turned out to be nothing?

[Frodo]

Another idiotic waste of time and money by Congressional Republicans.

[Comrade Funk]

Another idiotic waste of time and money by Congressional Republicans.

[Bojack Horseman]

Wake up and smell the Java, America. Sick of this crap yet? Stop voting Republican.

[DrScholl]

The RNC needs to be billed for every dollar the investigations cost.

[Free Bird]

The RNC needs to be billed for every dollar the investigations cost.

Because the Department of Education and origami condoms are so much more worth it

[cinyc]

The IRS Commissioner is a total partisan hack ahole, but impeachable for high crimes and misdemeanors? A host of Pubs keep wanting to do these silly Quixotic Quests, without being sensitive to the details of the rules of law and precedent, knowing full that it's all symbolic, so there is no consequence to their actions.

Destroying government property and then lying to Congress about it is a crime.  That the Obama administration's highly partisan DoJ  doesn't see it that way doesn't mean Congress should ignore it.  Checks and balances and all.

[Ebsy]

The IRS Commissioner is a total partisan hack ahole, but impeachable for high crimes and misdemeanors? A host of Pubs keep wanting to do these silly Quixotic Quests, without being sensitive to the details of the rules of law and precedent, knowing full that it's all symbolic, so there is no consequence to their actions.

Destroying government property and then lying to Congress about it is a crime.  That the Obama administration's highly partisan DoJ  doesn't see it that way doesn't mean Congress should ignore it.  Checks and balances and all.

So, House Republicans impeach her... and what? In what universe does the Senate convict?

[ProgressiveCanadian]

Another idiotic waste of time and money by Congressional Republicans.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

The RNC needs to be billed for every dollar the investigations cost.

Because the Department of Education and origami condoms are so much more worth it

Libertarian logic: blatant partisan attacks at random bureaucrats are far more important than Pell Grants and attempts to make better contraceptives.

[All Along The Watchtower]

The thing is, the tax code is really only complicated for an elite minority of Americans. Cutting the IRS's resources and discrediting it publicly makes sense from the standpoint of the GOP, who have for decades been transferring law enforcement resources away from the wealthy and onto the poor.

Consider that these are the people who get more upset when someone on food stamps buys some junk food than when hedge fund managers and other really, really rich people cynically take full advantage of legal loopholes in the tax code - costing the government many millions (maybe billions) in lost revenue. Once you keep that in mind, the GOP's actions make more sense.

[Free Bird]

The RNC needs to be billed for every dollar the investigations cost.

Because the Department of Education and origami condoms are so much more worth it

Libertarian logic: blatant partisan attacks at random bureaucrats are far more important than Pell Grants and attempts to make better contraceptives.

How is this a partisan attack when it is indeed questionable? And neither of my examples of wasteful spending are Constitutional, so...

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

The RNC needs to be billed for every dollar the investigations cost.

Because the Department of Education and origami condoms are so much more worth it

Libertarian logic: blatant partisan attacks at random bureaucrats are far more important than Pell Grants and attempts to make better contraceptives.

How is this a partisan attack when it is indeed questionable? And neither of my examples of wasteful spending are Constitutional, so...

Dude I live in the UK and I give no craps what your written constitution - a vastly overrated document says. Although I do know enough to know that the Supreme Court decides what is constitutional, and while as far as I know origami condoms haven't reached judicial review, the Department of Ecucation has been involved in a handful of cases, and in none of them did the court turn round and say "btw you're unconstitutional, k".

And it does seem like a partisan attempt to bring back an old scandal in light of recent embarrassing leadership struggles. Perhaps this is red meat for the base to accept Ryan leadership pill and Ex-Im-Bank. I understand it, and as a partisan, I could even see myself getting behind such a bill if the shoe was in the other foot.  But it is blatantly partisan, as you can see from, err, the partisan breakdown.