Give me a break.

Via Red Alert:

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) blasted her colleagues in the House of Representatives from the chamber floor Thursday, saying that without the “so-called” scandals involving Attorney General Eric Holder and his office, Congress wouldn’t have “anything to do.” […]

Holmes Norton also came to the defense of President Obama on the IRS’s improper targeting of conservative organizations, exclaiming that the accusations against the President are tantamount to the claims that former Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisc.) launched against alleged communists in the U.S. during the 1950s.

“All of us have been very critical of the IRS, we still don’t know what really happened there,” she stated. “But without knowing it, there’s some of my committee that are tracing it back the President of the United States without of a scintilla of evidence… that, 50 years ago would have been called what it is, McCarthyism.”