Darrell Issa (R) comes down hard on Gonzo

[ORDagnabbit]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june07/attorneys_03-13.html

JUDY WOODRUFF: So, Representative Issa, you're including the attorney general in that?

REP. DARRELL ISSA: I'm including anybody who would mislead, deliberately mislead the Congress, and the senator is absolutely right. Resigning doesn't change the fact that we're going to get to the bottom of who knew and failed to let us know what -- well, members of the government were being sent to us to give us false information.

That's not tolerable ever, by either party, because we have an obligation. We were simply using our legitimate oversight responsibility in the House and the Senate. And then we were lied to by well-meaning young men who came up to give testimony, that they were given false. And that irritates us beyond belief.

And if it's the attorney general who had a hand in it, then he will have to step down. It certainly included Kyle Sampson, and he has stepped down.

And the senator is right: We're not going to quit until every one of these people has testified and we know the whole truth about the failure to be candid about these firings.


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[Hekate]

1. It was a fabulous sight, wasn't it? Ol' Darrell was spitting out kool-ade right and left

Bush's enablers in the Party are waking up, and they're shocked, shocked I say, that they've been lied to. :evilgrin:

Hekate

[AlCzervik]

3. imagine if Bush's poll numbers weren't in the toilet-his massive unpopularity

coupled with a democratically controlled congress makes all sorts of things possible now that weren't a scant 4 months ago.

[Nikki Stone1]

2. Political theater? Sorry, but Issa is almost singlehandedly responsible for Ahnold

He ran the recall of Grey Davis which allowed the Austrian Oaf to get elected.

[AlCzervik]

4. well him and Howard Kaloogian and a host of other assholes that thought they

would actually win that election for themselves. Seeing Darra Issa cry giving his "i will not run " speech was priceless.

[Nikki Stone1]

8. Boy, did they miscalculate.

Dumb asses.

[KeepItReal]

9. This might be Issa's revenge. He wanted that slot, but the GOP had Arnold waiting in wings

I remember Issa crying on TV as he had to step aside for Arnold to take the spot he did all that work to open up.

Think about it.

[NNadir]

5. An awfully convenient time to suddenly care about justice.

Two years ago he'd have swept the whole thing under the rug.

This is why a Democratic Congress is important.

[UTUSN]

6. ISSA standing on principle--HAH!!1 He tried to buy himself CA-gov n/t

[Old and In the Way]

7. I imagine will suddenly see a whole new attitude from those Republicans

who plan to be around after 2008. The Party's over....it was a glorious 8 year bender, but the hangover's going to be a real SOB.