Another Double Standard

The Congressional Oversight Committee’s investigation of the IRS scandal is being diverted by Progressives to a faux outrage over Congressman Issa adjourning the hearing because Ms. Lerner, the woman at the heart of the scandal, refused to testify and chose to exercise her right to remain silent under the 5th Amendment of the Constitution.

  Congressman Cummings waited until after the adjournment to demand to ask a question and then went into a tirade calling the hearings a “Witch Hunt” and referring to them as “Un-American”. His bogus attempt to express his disdain was soon joined by the professional race merchant, Jessie Jackson, who quickly accused Congressman Issa of racism.

  I may be wrong, but I seem to remember when a republican president was in office and his administration was being investigated for “Leaking” the name of a “covert” intelligence officer, who was actually not covert. The media frenzy over the ‘supposed’ leak was unbelievable and Democrats were screaming for a special prosecutor to destroy the president (I mean to find the truth).

  Amidst the media uproar and an intensive investigation a member of that president’s administration admitted that he was the one who leaked the information, but that wasn’t enough to satisfy Progressives thirst for Republican blood.

 They had found someone who was innocent of the charges surrounding the case and pursued him and got him convicted on completely unrelated charges. Of course that was not a witch hunt it was noble pursuit of truth and justice, only Republicans are capable of “Hunting Witches”.  

  Today there is overwhelming evidence that this administration is more than a little corrupt and is using deceitful practices to silence its opposition. There is evidence that senior IRS officials broke the law and there is no doubt that they have destroyed the trust of the American people, yet there is no desire to get to the truth by Progressives.

  If Democrats and the media would focus as much attention on Lois Lerner and the obvious abuse of power by IRS officials against conservatives as they did in their demonization of Scooter Libby then Ms. Lerner would already be serving out her prison sentence and President Obama would likely be facing impeachment proceedings.