The attorney representing former IRS chief Lois Lerner, William Taylor III, on Sunday dismissed House Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) charge that Taylor and Lerner are both lying.
“It’s convenient. This is an election-year politics. It’s convenient to have a demon that they can create and point to,” Taylor said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Earlier on the show, Issa accused Taylor of lying for his client.
“Well, her attorney has said things and been not correct, or disingenuous, or outright lied a number of times, and it’s been shown by e-mails,” Issa said on CNN. “Look, an attorney trying to get his client off the hook after flubbing the taking of the Fifth certainly will say and do a lot of things, but they’re not held accountable.”
Taylor also defended the decision to have Lerner plead the Fifth Amendment when she testified before Congress.
“There was no pretense that this would be a fair process,” he said. “From the beginning, the Republican majority has screamed, without any evidence, about things that she did.”
Convenient to have a demon? GOTPers stumble over one another to be the first to find fault and lay blame for the tiniest of perceived infractions or slights. Every accident in life must have a perpetrator!
All a GOTPer needs to do to find a demon is look in a mirror,
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Sure! For one thing, Issa has someone he can use to distract from his own well-earned reputation for completely outrageous and continual lies. I’d like to see a version of “Don Giovanni” in which the finale is Issa accusing someone of lying one last time as demons, coincidentally enough, appear and drag his scowling mug and the rest of him down to hell.
If they GOTea doesn’t have an issue to gin up OUTRAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE, then they’ll make one up.
Love that image - the melodrama of opera is an appropriate analogy for Republican political histrionics (but opera has that redeeming, beautiful music!)