Darth Issa: Lord Vader, the Democrats have caught on to my investigation and they are threatening to overrule it. The plan is succeeding as expected.
Darth Vader: Good. Good. With the Democrats distracted, the Emperor and the Republican Party will strike at the party's base and have the Democratic Party fight for them while you and your team go further into power.
Naturally, because Darrell Issa's so-called "IRS investigation" is really more of a game of gotcha rather than smart, investigative oversight, there's being considerable backfire against him. Seems that Issa himself is definitely "Icing" the truth in anything he does these days in government so as a result, he's turning the IRS scandal investigation into something that's supposedly a "game changer" for the GOP.
Not so fast:
http://swampland.time.com/...
The IRS scandal was an early Christmas gift to Republicans. Flagrant abuse of power by a villain voters already hate is the kind of bombshell that could wreak havoc for months, casting a shadow of scandal on the White House and unifying an opposition party wrestling with internal divisions. Democrats conceded the IRS’s decision to target conservative groups was “outrageous,” as President Barack Obama put it. Just a week ago, the controversy seemed set to sidetrack the president’s legislative agenda. Republicans prepared for a summer of embarrassing hearings.
But an overzealous prosecutor can bungle even an open-and-shut case, and that’s what Democrats hope to portray Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee and the President’s self-styled nemesis. For years, Issa has launched a series of probes into alleged White House malfeasance, from the “Fast and Furious” gun-running controversy to loans the Department of Energy made to the failed green-energy company Solyndra. In both instances, Issa went after high-level scalps — only to see the investigations peter out without claiming top officials, such as Attorney General Eric Holder, who was under scrutiny in “Fast and Furious.” Now Democrats are pointing to his habit of claiming conspiracy, as well as a series of intemperate remarks Issa has made about the IRS case, in an attempt to deflect attention from the scandal by discrediting the inquisitor.
To touch base on the point that TIME writers Alex Altman and Zeke Miller have made, the IRS scandal was never an early Christmas present and never will be. With a host of other issues the U.S. is facing right now, including persistent unemployment and gun control, the IRS scandal really, at least so far, has existed from within the IRS, not from directives from the White House.
However, TIME is having difficulty validating the validity of the information Congressman Issa has produced so far:
Issa’s accusations were accompanied by excerpts the committee released from interviews conducted with two unidentified workers at the IRS office in Cincinnati. In one excerpt, a worker scoffs at the notion that employees in the bureaucratic backwater could be solely responsible for the politically motivated targeting. “It’s impossible,” the employee says. “As an agent we are controlled by many, many people. We have to submit many, many reports. So the chance of two agents being rogue and doing things like that could never happen.”
“One of the things we’ve heard,” says a spokesperson in Issa’s office of the committee’s interviews with IRS employees in Cincinnati, “is how frustrated and thrown under the bus they feel.”
It’s hard to assess the accuracy of Issa’s claims. The Oversight committee hasn’t released the full transcripts of those interviews, or identified the employees. Nor has Issa explained why he believes the conspiracy to target conservative political outfits applying for 501(c)(4) status stretches deep into the agency’s Washington headquarters. The Treasury Inspector General found that IRS offices in DC did contribute to inappropriate delays when some conservative groups applied for tax-exempt status. But it found no political influence from the White House, or anyone else, in those actions.
As a result, Issa needs to be careful what he does in this IRS investigation because already he's getting wiped hard by Democrats, especially the toughest one in Obama's inner circle:
While Former Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs isn't feeding off of what David Plouffe said about Issa, he does raise awareness of what Issa's agenda is at this point with regards to the IRS scandal:
Lastly, there seems to be information coming from inside Democratic and Republican operatives that Issa's "investigation" is unfocused and not being fair to the whole objective oversight process that's supposed to happen at the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee:
Privately, some Republicans fret that Issa’s overzealousness could blur the lines between the committee’s legitimate oversight role and partisan witch-hunting. And even Democrats wonder why Issa won’t let the investigation run its course. “This isn’t good for us, but it’s not as bad as he’s making it out to be either,” says one longtime Democratic operative. But like Issa, Democrats probably don’t know yet where the probe will lead. And their scramble to target Issa suggests they’re searching for their own scapegoat in case it’s nowhere good.
However, knowing Darrell Issa and his endless quest for power, it's fair to say he won't apologize or change so let's just focus on 2014 by going into the CA-49 district and starting voter registration, GOTV efforts and of course, mounting a Democratic challenger.
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