
Oh Debbie, you never disappoint. Lois Lerner retired from the IRS with her government pension and benefits intact, she wasn’t fired.
DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: I was stunned. Not so stunned by who did it, because Darrell Issa, you know, nothing surprises me anymore with his conduct. In the last couple of weeks, in which we have been, on both sides of the aisle, standing up for the rights of the oppressed, trying to make sure that in Venezuela, that dictators there aren’t shutting down the opposition. The same thing in the Ukraine.
At the same time, you have a chairman of the Government Oversight Committee literally electronically cutting off the mic of the opposition to prevent him from having any say or participation in the hearing that was focused on an investigation that has been resolved. And that they are purely and obviously, through the cutting off of Elijah Cummings’ mic, purely proving here that what they’re doing here is just trying to continue to politicize this issue. It is a settled matter.
President Obama has condemned it. The director of the IRS has lost his job over it. Lois Lerner lost her job over it. Heads rolled, as they should have, but, unfortunately, Darrell Issa and the Republicans on that committee have continued to try to use politics to bludgeon this administration and silence any debate or opposition because they continue to bear-hug obstructionism instead of moving forward together.
