nothing but made up scandals.

Let's focus on the /real/ scandals - oh, like why Exxon lied to the world about climate change for 40 years?

and in 2003-2006 the GOPigs were screaming that Democrats shouldn't investigate WMDs
because it was too expensive and a waste of taxpayer money!

Please keep arms and legs within the red lines, it is going to be a bumpy ride to the finish.

First came the "Benghazi Special Committee." Then this.

And now we find:
-- Another "special committee" to "investigate" Planned Parenthood
-- And another committee to investigate NOAA over the agency's climate change conclusions

be kicked out of Congress.

Does anybody in the world think that any of these tax & donor disclosure exempt political groups are non political? Rove's Crossroads, Koch's nefarious nest of dark money, some Democratic leaning too. When ordinary citizens contribute to specific candidates, it's not tax free plus it becomes public knowledge. Why should these organizations & their wealthy donors not play by the same rules and contribute taxes and sunlight to our democracy?

In the Eisenhower Admin the IRS, on their own authority, changed the definition of this tax exemption from "entirely" social welfare to "primarily" social welfare. It now costs the IRS dearly in determining & defending who qualifies for what was once a uniform,strict and unambiguous tax exemption. And because of the Lerner fautrage, now the IRS is weaker enforcing even the post Eisenhower standards for tax exemption. Both the Kochs and Rove were finally under challenge for their social welfare exemptions, rightful challenges to their political 'charities" that conveniently went scot free because of the Lerner chaos.

Lawrence O'Donnell complains about this a lot. It would benefit the IRS and American taxpayers hundreds of millions of collected taxes. Plus take the IRS support for secrecy & untraceable dark money out of political campaigns.

It's clear to me that part of the rush the Koch's & Rove et alios get from saturating political campaigns is that their hundreds of millions-billions are taxfree, leaving the American taxpayer to subsidize the tax "free speech" of the oligarchy.

Hopefully the IRS will respond to this rightwing witch hunt by just lowering the long overdue book on their compromised definition of charity. If charity is defined as entirely social welfare, then nobody, Dem or Repub, has a case to challenge, out lawyer and sue the IRS.

because they don't want them looking in the wrong places. Or in this case, the right places for us.

before granting tax exempt status to these PACs?

These patriotic Political Action Committees with anonymous donors were actually asked to CLARIFY THEIR PURPOSE before the IRS granted them millions in tax breaks!

I don't exactly know, but I will say anyway, This Is What Hitler Did before he took power!!!

Disclaimer: No actual PACs were harmed or injured in any way. No conservative PACs were actually denied tax exempt status, even though according to the actual law, 501-C tax exempt organizations are prohibited from ANY political activity. But we should all still be pissed off at the IRS, because they are Obama's Brownshirts who are destroying our freedoms.

If she is impeached, does this then go over to the Senate? I'm curious about the process.

In the House a simple majority is needed to impeach him, which I expect they will get. It then goes to the Senate where it essentially becomes a trial and both sides present their case. The IRS Commissioner is allowed his own lawyer if he so desires. It requires a 2/3rds vote to "convict" at which point he would be removed from office. In theory criminal charges could also be placed against him, but since that would require the DOJ to prosecute, that is not likely to happen.

Note, the President can NOT pardon him for the impeachment.

The Republicans seem fairly confident that they have something that will hold up to public scrutiny for them to consider impeaching the IRS Commissioner.

It sounds like the Republicans would have to get at least a dozen Democrats to vote for impeachment if that happened. I think it's not likely, but with the way some of them are voting lately you never know.

It's the trial and conviction in the Senate that becomes problematical.

Putting aside what I believe and feel and viewing this dispassionately, the Republicans seem feel their case is strong enough to convince the AVERAGE voter that the IRS Commissioner deserves to be impeached. If they can convince the AVERAGE voter, that will have a negative impact on whoever the Democratic nominee for President is and as well as some Senate races.

She was just doing her job!! Of course all hose Reich wing groups deserved extra scruitiny!!

anytime government tries to do anything good they yammer on about how much money is "wasted" on programs like food stamps, Social Security and unemployment benefits. And they have no problem funding shit like this? These people all need to be primaried and or voted out ASAP. I will be very curious to see if all of the nonestablishment trump fans are willing to dump these people from Congress if they really true to their word about government wasting money.