Committee Chairman Darryl Issa's fantasy world of mass Obama conspiracies is caving in. Reality is beginning to set in. With Sunday's unexpected grilling by Fox News, Darryl Issa is getting particularly surly. He had announced on the show IRS Official Lois Lerner would testify and not take the 5th Amendment. Instead,today Mrs. Lerner invoked the 5th Amendment again during Issa's IRS hearings.
Here he cuts off House Minority Ranking Member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) as he tried to make a point about the proceedings. - and walks out.
Per Think Progress
Is Darryl Issa losing patience with his own manufactured scandals?
10:37 AM PT: Here is more background from talkingpointsmemo.com
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee planned to haul former IRS official Lois Lerner back before the committee. Republicans have continued to pursue their investigation of the agency's screening of applications for tax-exempt status from conservative groups. And while Lerner refused to answer questions last year during her first appearance before the committee, Republicans had spent months arguing that she had actually waived her Fifth Amendment rights by giving a statement before invoking them. Issa recalled her, and on Sunday, he appeared on "Fox News Sunday" and stated that Lerner would in fact testify.
When Lois Lerner invoked the 5th again, Rep. Issa was trying to limit the political damage of this now useless hearing by getting out of the room (Dodge) in a hurry. Now he has the political damage he was trying to avoid hanging all over him.
11:23 AM PT: The long play version is even more devastating