High-Ranking Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings: Now That We Know Everything We Need to Know about the IRS' Targeting, We Should Move On

We've "solved" the mystery, he says.

Representative Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, made a somewhat startling claim about the burgeoning IRS scandal, as Eliana Johnson noted on Sunday.

“Based upon everything I’ve seen, the case is solved and if it were me, I’d wrap this case up and move on, to be frank with you,” Cummings said.

The comment was an abrupt departure from what Democrats, including President Obama, have been saying about the issue, which is that they are committed to a thorough investigation to make sure something like this never happens again.

Obviously the Democrats are not acting like they expect this to turn out to be a couple of bad apples. They're acting, as Doc Zero said, as if they believe this scandal constitutes an "existential threat" to their party.

Were it a couple of bad apples, they could just fire those bad apples and themselves join the Hero Squad. Instead, they're taking dangerous political positions.

Why would they do that? Well, for the obvious reason: Because the dangerous political positions they're taking are yet safer than permitting the truth to out.

posted by Ace at 10:58 AM

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