Darrell Issa held another faux hearing Wednesday but this time Democrats were ready for him.

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Darrell Issa held another faux hearing Wednesday to pretend he really wants Lois Lerner to testify, but this time Democrats were ready for him.

Rep. Gerry Connolly was magnificent. Watch the video, starting at about 4 minutes in to see him in action. He made it abundantly clear that he was deeply concerned about the IRS' unilateral decision to undermine the law establishing 501(c)(4) organizations by interpreting the word "exclusively" to mean "primarily," and he used a terrific analogy to make his point.

"Now if I said to my spouse, 'Honey, we have an exclusive relationship' and I mean by that 49 percent, I'd probably have problems in my relationship." Connolly circled in on that, saying "To her, and to me, exclusively means 'just you.' All the time. 100 percent." Then the zinger. "So how in the world did we get to a situation where the IRS, on its own, outside of statutory authority, decided to interpret this as primarily? Because to me, that's part of the problem."

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Then Connolly swoops in for the kill. "Because clearly some of these organizations are not exclusively social welfare agents. Clearly they're designed to be political. Partisanly political."



http://crooksandliars.com/2014/03/darrell-issa-irs-kangaroo-court-convened

[pscot]

1. kick

[coldbeer]

13. Lawrence O'Donnell has been saying this for a long time!

I hope he reads this!

[oldandhappy]

2. yep. Thank you.

[Iliyah]

3. K & R!

On my wish list - please defeat Issa, come on California, we can do it!

[WillyT]

4. HUGE K & R !!!

[SunSeeker]

5. That "exclusive relationship" analogy from Connolly was BRILLIANT.

It highlights the REAL IRS scandal that has been festering since the Eisenhower administration when that ridiculous "interpretation" was made by some unelected bureaucrat.

[rhett o rick]

6. k&r thanks for posting. nm

[mountain grammy]

7. K & R

[calimary]

8. It was sweet, but not nearly as much of a smack down as I thought he deserved.

Still a little too elegant and gentlemanly. I wanna see issa's microphone cut off! Yanked would be better. Gerry Connolly was far too polite. Yeah, made his point and got it into the record, but probably went over the GOPers' heads, certainly in and out their ears. And he didn't save any of their souls either.

But then again, maybe most of 'em are beyond saving.

[cui bono]

9. Well played Connolly, well played.

[CBHagman]

10. Thank you.

Thank to this glimpse of sanity in what has been a maddening time.

[roody]

11. IRS is targeting Pastors for Peace.

Claimng they are terrorists.
http://ifconews.org/node/1414

[Beacool]

12. Good for Connolly.

Someone needed to smack down the car thief.