Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) teamed up with Fox News Sunday today for an interview that was designed to make the case for impeaching President Obama over the debunked IRS scandal.
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After playing a video clip of President Obama saying there wasn’t a smidgen of corruption at the IRS, Rep. Issa made the claim that the IRS “scandal” was directed from Washington.
Transcript:
Chris Wallace: Now, there are six current investigations going on of the IRS scandal, four inside Congress, two inside the administration, one in Treasury, one in the Justice Department. A couple of questions. One, have any of those investigations been completed and cleared the IRS of wrongdoing, and what do think of the president stating there that there isn’t a smidgen of corruption?
Rep. Darrell Issa: Well, he’ll have to define smidgen and corruption for all of us because there certainly is real evidence that there was wrongdoing and that wrongdoing was not in Cincinnati, but,in fact, in Washington, DC….And that’s where the president is introducing things that have already been disproven.
But let’s understand, this is an administration that wants to have you believe a video launched the Benghazi murders when, in fact, that was disproven, and even after it was reintroduced by this administration again and again including by this president. Senator Feinstein and the Select Intelligence Committee in the Senate led by Democrats have made it clear that the factors that led to that had a lot more to do with terrorism than it ever would a video.
Issa couldn’t answer either of Wallace’s questions because the testimony gathered by his own investigation already cleared President Obama and Washington, D.C. of any corruption or wrongdoing.
Rep. Issa had to change the subject to Benghazi to hide the fact that he has no evidence to back up his claim that there was targeting of conservatives, and that it was being run out of Washington, DC.
Fox News and Issa have to place the activity in Washington because the point is to gather evidence that House Republicans can use to impeach President Obama. The IRS scandal isn’t going to be a big issue in the 2014 election, but Republicans, like Issa, are hoping that they win control of the Senate then they would be free to pursue their dream of impeaching the President Of The United States.
Republicans are dreaming that they can impeach Obama over the IRS and Benghazi “scandals” because that would also wound Hillary Clinton, and leave them a clear path to the White House in 2016.
The Republican Party couldn’t defeat Barack Obama in two elections, so they are looking to impeach him. It is unlikely they will be able to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016, so they are trying to sabotage her candidacy before it starts.
Congressional Republicans are trying to overthrow the will of the people, and overturn the results of the 2012 election.
This story isn’t really about the IRS or Benghazi. At its core, these witch hunts are about finding a way to impeach President Obama.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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