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An Ode To Lois Lerner: “Blown Snow”

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

But Sometimes
Bureaucrats Soar
Beyond Simple
Background Stories,
Brokering Supercilious
Bromides Stashed
Below Silver
Busses Staggered
By Squashed
Bodies Sacrificed,
Bravely Supporting
Beliefs Seemingly
Broken, Soviet-style

—
Losing her 1st Amendment rights?

Category: Instapundit, Scandal, Taxes

Comments

11 Responses to “An Ode To Lois Lerner: “Blown Snow””

  1. BobBelvedere
    May 22nd, 2013 @ 7:07 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each An Ode To Lois Lerner: “Blown Snow” http://t.co/mUq5Rn2tDE #TCOT #IRS | Beautifully Stated.

  2. gwheelockvan
    May 22nd, 2013 @ 7:59 pm

    Excellent effort but Fernandez at Belmont has you beat with “Lerner and Lo!”

    What a day this has been
    What a rare mood I’m in
    Why it’s almost like taking the 5th
    There’s a scowl on my face
    For the whole ratty race
    Why it’s almost like taking the 5th
    All the daggers in life seems to be
    Like a sharp knives that are pointing at me
    And from the way that I feel
    When the mask starts to peel
    I would swear they were stalling,
    I could swear I was falling
    – It’s almost like taking the 5th.

  3. Mike G.
    May 22nd, 2013 @ 8:47 pm

    Our very own Robert Byrd of the blogosphere.

  4. Bob Belvedere
    May 22nd, 2013 @ 9:02 pm

    The original:

  5. K-Bob
    May 22nd, 2013 @ 9:05 pm

    Brilliantly Stated

  6. smitty
    May 22nd, 2013 @ 9:34 pm

    Better Subtext

  7. Adjoran
    May 23rd, 2013 @ 1:05 am

    Issa should have remembered the First Rule of Not Acting Dumb: “1. If you don’t know, you better axe somebody!”

    Gowdy can be forgiven for being confused in the moment. Issa had time to check. Now he looks foolish.

    If you testify on your own behalf in a criminal trial, you can’t take the 5th. It’s a voluntary act, and it happens after you’ve seen all the evidence against you. That’s different.

    In a situation like Congress or a Grand Jury subpoena where testimony is compelled, you CAN take the 5th on a question by question basis.

  8. smitty
    May 23rd, 2013 @ 5:53 am

    Even if there was a legal work-around, it’s not clear that anybody wants to be the one setting the precedent. Just because the IRS is odious isn’t an encouragement to emulate the scoundrels.

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    May 23rd, 2013 @ 7:24 am

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  10. Bob Belvedere
    May 23rd, 2013 @ 10:36 am

    Not a single, Goddamn like for Francis Albert?!?

    I’m very disappointed in you all.

  11. Bob Belvedere
    May 23rd, 2013 @ 10:44 am

    Andrew McCarthy disagrees with you and Fred Thompson believes she has probably screwed herself.

    AMcC: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/349110/fifth-obama-andrew-c-mccarthy

    and: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/349141/lerner-too-clever-half-andrew-c-mccarthy

    FT: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/349122/person-privilege-fred-thompson