What the scandal is in all of this stuff is that there is no scandal. What happens is, you haven’t been able, nobody has been able, to tie this to the administration. And just to abuse you all of the notion that its only tea party people that have been investigated, that just simply is not the case. What happens with IRS, and we should get off of their backs, they are thrust upon political seasons with immense responsibilities to make a determination as to whether or not organizations qualify under the laws as they are written with reference to 501(c)(3) and (c)(4).
I want to make it very clear: I take umbrage for the reason I belong to Mount Hermon AME Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and way before any of this took place, my church was under two years of investigation because John Kerry came to church. And there are conservative churches that have had their charters reviewed by the Internal Revenue Service. So this isn’t all about one particular segment of our society. I think the most pertinent thing out of this is what Ms. Slaughter said, and Mr. Cummings agreed, that the law needs to be written clearly so that the IRS and anybody else can have a better understanding
I just, for the life of me, don’t believe that in this week, what we are doing is handling the business of the people of the United States of America. Like you all, I spent 10 days on the ground in my district, and I had a considerable amount of interface with a variety of people, Democrat and Republican.
Nobody said to me Benghazi.
Nobody said to me anything to me about IRS.
Nobody said anything about any need for any select committee to investigate anything.
Almost all were concerned about jobs. A considerable amount of query about unemployment benefits for people who have lost their jobs. And here we are, about the business of looking for scandal where there is no scandal – and that is the scandal: that you are spending taxpayer time and money going about looking for something that didn’t exist.
Ms. Lerner had every right to assert her 5th amendment rights. And when she asserted her 5th amendment rights, they stand. And I predict for you, in spite of all of the hoi polloi here, that when it is in court, and it will be in court if you all vote it out tomorrow, that you will find that it will be dismissed. And then where are we, with some more political mish-mash? Enough already people.”
