Since when is a government employee worried\u00a0about wasting our taxpayer money? Well, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen sure thinks a special prosecutor would be a waste of our taxpayer money, y’all. Aww, how kind of him. Worrying about our\u00a0money and whatnot! Pffff.<\/p>\n

I mean it’s not like the IRS has had $1.8 million\u00a0for IT, and apparently their stellar IT team\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0know how to recover from a backup, when a computer hard drive crashes, before it is\u00a0written over six months later. No, that wasn’t a “waste of taxpayer money,” like a special prosecutor would be.<\/p>\n

And, it’s not like the IRS didn’t have plans at the beginning of this year to hand out $62.5 million\u00a0in bonuses to agency employees<\/a> to “boost their morale,” in the midst of this whole fiasco. Commissioner Koskinen, himself, said the bonuses were needed to retain and attract good employees. No, not a waste of our taxpayer money at all people! But, a special prosecutor would be. Trust them…they are the IRS…they will get to the bottom of things with their bogus<\/del>\u00a0internal\u00a0invesigation. Please.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Wolf Blitzer today on CNN,\u00a0when asked if he could understand how the IRS scandal looks “suspicious,” he once again said he has found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Umm, pardon me, but when questioned by Trey Gowdy<\/a> (R., South Carolina), didn’t he admit that he had no\u00a0idea what the criminal statutes were? So, how could he possibly even know if any crime was committed, when he doesn’t know what would constitute a crime.<\/p>\n

He also stated that he had no idea why Lois Lerner pleaded the Fifth Amendment<\/a> when giving her testimony. Generally, Mr. Koskinen, someone would plead\u00a0the Fifth to protect\u00a0themselves against self-incrimination in\u00a0a crime of some sort.\u00a0\u00a0At least that’s what most people with “common sense,” which you seem to like to claim you have, would think.<\/p>\n

We now know, from yesterday’s news dump, that Ms. Lerner was looking to target Senator\u00a0Chuck\u00a0Grassley<\/a> (R., Iowa), who is the Republican Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which handles funding for the IRS, before he had even done anything\u00a0wrong. Before he had even filed his taxes! Over-eager there much, Ms. Lerner? So, she\u00a0obviously\u00a0had no qualms about using her position for political gain. It’s not hard to imagine her doing even more nefarious things\u00a0in her position.<\/p>\n

Any-who, Mr. Koskinen, who has contributed nearly $100,000\u00a0to\u00a0Democratic candidates and organizations for four decades now, continues to stand by the White House<\/del> his talking points on the whole IRS scandal and feels that bringing in an outside special prosecutor\u00a0would be a waste of our taxpayer money. I, personally, can think of many things that our government is currently\u00a0wasting our money on, that we could do away with, in order to\u00a0bring in someone who can actually be objective and preserve evidence in this matter. Better yet, why not take the cost of the investigation out of future IRS budgets? Seems like a good idea to me.<\/p>\n

With only the people involved in the investigation that we have now, I fear we will never get to the truth of the matter. Actually, I think that so much evidence in this case has now disappeared,\u00a0that even if we did bring in an outside non-partisan party to investigate, getting to the truth may be difficult\u00a0now. Maybe that is what he means by “waste of taxpayer money,” you think? He knows that everything has been destroyed<\/del> is gone, so why bother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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