"Interesting" new / old power the house gave itself.

[Victorian Gray]

You're Canadian, tell it to pretty pony Justin and his love affair with Castro.

Aw, what a cute little authoritarian you are.

 

[IronWing]

The IRS scandal started in 2013, it's still going on, it never stopped and it won't stop until we get the partisan progressives out of the IRS. There are still conservative groups that have yet to get their legally allowed status of 501(c)4.

The IRS denied status to conservative groups because the groups weren't qualified for the status. There wasn't a political agenda, simply the IRS following the law. Conservatives hate it when the law applies to them.

 

[imported_tajmahal]

The IRS denied status to conservative groups because the groups weren't qualified for the status. There wasn't a political agenda, simply the IRS following the law. Conservatives hate it when the law applies to them.

Of course it was, that's why Lerner took the 5th and resigned.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437280/irs-tea-party-harassment-may-have-broken-law

 

[Jhhnn]

That assertion regrettably has nothing to do with the fact that you claimed the power of the Executive was being usurped.

That's the power of the chief executive to set pay scales for the civil service, obviously.

 

[fskimospy]

Comey and the rest of the FBI aside, of course.

Director of the FBI is a political appointment.

 

[brycejones]

Of course it was, that's why Lerner took the 5th and resigned.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437280/irs-tea-party-harassment-may-have-broken-law

Seriously anyone called before congress as part of a witch hunt would be wise to take the 5th.

 

[feralkid]

Oh, please. Attribution of partisanship to civil servants is bullshit.

Thank you.

I suspect Taj hails from, or dreams of, an authoritative regime where all civil servants must swear allegiance to the ruling party or lose their jobs.

 

[theeedude]

Putin calls this "vertical of power."

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Director of the FBI is a political appointment.

Not sure what distinction you're making here. What the OP/Google tells me is that the Holman Rule is in theory applicable to any federal employee. Jhhnn suggested that civil service agencies aren't partisan (at least to a significant degree), after tajmahal accused the EPA of having an "entrenched and partisan civil service workforce". The administrator of the EPA is a political appointment too.