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In reply to the discussion: Lois Lerner is not testifying because the GOP can't have Dems grilling her !!!! [View all]marshall
(6,665 posts)28. She's pulling some kind of double gothca
By botching her 5th amendment declaration she has essentially tried to have it both ways--she's given herself plausible deniability cover for whoever is squeezing her AND she is going to be "forced" to testify under oath. I don't know what her game plan is or who her accomplices are, but it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
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Lois Lerner is not testifying because the GOP can't have Dems grilling her !!!! [View all]
swayne
May 2013
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Me, too. Didn't her manager admit that it was his idea to have the question planted?
randome
May 2013
#4
I thought her supervisor, Steven Miller, suggested the planting of the question.
randome
May 2013
#22
There was an admission it was planted. But why? Because we now know there were
southernyankeebelle
May 2013
#34
Lerner doesn't want to get on the bad side of the GOP. Not testifying shields her from that.
swayne
May 2013
#13
Lerner is a GOP operative and if she has to answer questions the GOP scandal will fall apart.
swayne
May 2013
#3
Corporate Media has already played it up that if Lerner doesn't testify, it would affect Pres. Obama
BlueCaliDem
May 2013
#7
Exactly and THAT is my point. Lerner by not testifying, in a perverse way, makes Obama look bad.
swayne
May 2013
#10
I'm sorry, but you've misread the point I was making. What you posted is NOT my point at all.
BlueCaliDem
May 2013
#12
It makes it look that OBAMA is hiding something. He isn't. The GOP is hiding the truth.
swayne
May 2013
#14
True. But it's been the main goal of Corporate Media to paint this scandal-free president
BlueCaliDem
May 2013
#20
the American people need to know that the people you highlighted were part of
HeroInAHalfShell
May 2013
#24
I don't think it will go anywhere but it still looks bad just from a outside perspective
Puzzledtraveller
May 2013
#6