When Lois Lerner refused to testify on her leadership role in organizing a partisan vendetta against conservative non-profits, the investigating committee issued a criminal referral to the Department of Justice. Nothing happened. When Attorney General Eric Holder refused to testify about his role in green-lighting a gun-running scheme organized by the ATF that resulted in the murders of hundreds of Mexican nationals and US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, a criminal referral was issued by the committee. Again, nothing happened.
But when a vindictive committee empaneled as part of a personal and political vendetta against President Trump sends a criminal referral on what is, at best, a chickensh** charge, it literally becomes a federal case. And just to ensure things stay on track, the man prosecuting the case is a former member of Joe Biden’s campaign — I use the term “man” very loosely,