John Koskinen
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No Accountability (Yet) for IRS, Koskinen
GOP-lead House delays impeachment vote for political targeting.
House Oversight Committee Censures IRS Chief
Next up, if Senate Republicans have the stomach, impeachment.
House Republicans Move to Impeach IRS Chief
"Providing false testimony before Congress comes with a consequence."
Skip the Investigations, Win the Election
At a certain point, you have to realize you can't hit a fastball. House Republicans don't quite get that they are hopeless at oversight hearings. They keep losing — and now the chairman of the House Oversight Committee has just introduced articles of impeachment against IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. I'm sympathetic to the GOP motive, given how the Obama IRS has consistently obstructed and misled Congress in the tax-exemption scandal. But impeachment is no ordinary move. No agency chief or Cabinet officer has been impeached since 1876. And even proponents admit that there is no chance of Koskinen being removed from office because the Senate will never convict.
Impeach the IRS Director
"Look," wrote Lois Lerner, echoing Horace Greeley, "my view is that Lincoln was our worst president not our best. He should [have] let the [S]outh go. We really do seem to have 2 totally different mindsets." Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, was referring to Southern secessionist states when he urged President-elect Lincoln to "let the erring sisters go in peace." Greeley favored separating the nation from certain mindsets; Lerner favors suppressing certain mindsets.