1. They're wimps. 2. An unfettered investigation would show massive use of the IRS by members of Congress from both parties. 3. The Obama attack machine has truckloads of dirt on most of them. 4. Did I mention that they're wimps?

Yep, this is getting bigger. It will get a lot bigger if anyone in the kept media has the guts to investigate and report. I'm betting that no one does.

Her repeatedly taking the Fifth will make the regime look bad in some eyes. But it won't add much to the investigation, and it won't put Obama any nearer the exit. He won't resign, no one has the guts to impeach him, and the Senate would never convict. This will eventually blow over. Until it does, it will keep Benghazi out of the headlines. Lerner is also doing Congress a favor by leaving this "investigation" in the ditch. If our esteemed legislators really wanted to punish all the criminals in this matter, they would have to include their own colleagues, e.g., Baucus and Schumer, who publicly exhorted the IRS to crack down on right-wing nonprofits. (God knows what they did in private.) As with Benghazi, both party establisments will be far happier when the public goes into scandal overload and everything simmers down.

Remember when McCain and the other fools on the Senate Commerce Committee lectured radio executives on the First Amendment after they'd banned the Dixie Chicks? How I wish one of them had blurted out, "The First Amendment says Congress shall make no law. . .You're Congress. I'm not. So why don't you shut the hell up and let me run my business?"

Remember back in 2008, when Ted Kennedy and other empty-headed members of the Senate Judiciary Committee demanded that Attorney General Michael Mukasey tell them whether waterboarding is illegal. The poor fellow was too dumbfounded, or just too dumb, to shoot back, "You people are legislators. YOU tell ME whether it's illegal. Then I'LL tell YOU whether I stay in this job or walk."

"[Y]ou guys wrote the darn tax code, so if you are offended by it, fix it." Excellent point, sir, though Congress merely approved the tax code without reading it. Most of the incomprehensible text was probably written by staffers and lobbyists. If only one executive ordered to appear at such proceedings had the guts to say something like this forcefully in front of the press corps. But then his company would be subject to retaliatory regulation and endless hassle from the IRS.

Those of us who work work for them and for those of us who don't work.

Vindication is fine, but justice is better. Don't hold your breath till any federal employee goes to prison over any of this.

Obama and his thugs did everything but publicly put Fox News on their enemies list during the 2008 campaign, so they were bound to attack it after taking power. Snooping on, denouncing, and trying to intimidate their own kept media wasn't quite a given, but it was predictable. The regime is made up of extraordinarily thin-skinned, vindictive, and power-intoxicated people, and almost no one with a pulse is subservient enough to enjoy their favor for long. It's a safe bet that the AP and CBS aren't their only victims in the DNC media empire. We shall see whether the fools who put Obama in office twice are angry enough to dig into this scandal, clever enough to find out how deep and wide it is, and brave enough to report their discoveries truthfully and in a timely manner. I'm almost certain that they aren't.

Yeah, I nearly fell over when I heard this criminal explain that the IRS had "streamlined" the tax-exemption process by turning a routine activity that should take only a couple of weeks into an expensive, unconstitutional ordeal that drags on for years. I don't know what's worse -- the criminals' deeds or their undisguised contempt for everyone else's intelligence.

I'm not sure that a high IQ necessarily denotes intelligence, nor am I sure that intelligence necessarily makes for an open mind. The question posed by cdracka above had to do with getting through to his ostensibly intelligent friend. People who are, or think they are, in the intellectual elite often tend to dismiss obvious facts and valid arguments as the babble of the inferior. It's not unusual for bright people to have very thick skulls.