This should be fun...

[one_voice]

This is definitely the way to get things done in Washington. Vindictive, petty, little egomaniacs...

GOP plans wave of White House probesPages:

If President Barack Obama needed any more incentive to go all out for Democrats this fall, here it is: Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if they win back the majority.

Everything from the microscopic – the New Black Panther party – to the massive –- think bailouts – is on the GOP to-do list, according to a half-dozen Republican aides interviewed by POLITICO.

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And a handful of aggressive would-be committee chairmen – led by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) – are quietly gearing up for a possible season of subpoenas not seen since the Clinton wars of the late 1990s.

Issa would like Obama’s cooperation, says Kurt Bardella, spokesman for the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. But it’s not essential.

“How acrimonious things get really depend on how willing the administration is in accepting our findings responding to our questions,” adds Bardella, who refers to his boss as “Questioner-in-Chief.’

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The New Black Panther Party. Smith, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, has already pressed Holder to look into charges that members of the New Black Panther Party intimidated voters at a Philadelphia polling place in 2008.

The San Antonio-area conservative – whose first campaign was managed by Karl Rove – is already on record criticizing Holder for dropping the Justice Department case against three Panthers, including one who brandished a police-style baton.

“Congress, in furtherance of its oversight obligations to receive answers” on the Panther case, he wrote in late 2009.

“Congressman Smith thinks it’s far too early to discuss any possible investigations before the voters have spoken,” said a Smith spokesman, before adding:

“But, yes, we would definitely want answers about the Black Panther case.”

ACORN. A whole host of Republicans – led by Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Steve King (R-Iowa) on the party’s right wing – have demanded an investigation into the defunct community organizing group’s ties to the Obama campaign.

Still, neither Issa nor Smith are said to be enthusiastic about jumping back into the controversy – considering the fact that ACORN is out of business and most Democrats have already signed on to a bill barring federal funding of the group.

Related: Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Tex.) – who stands a chance of leap-frogging Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), the ranking GOPer on the House Financial Services Committee – is pushing for a large-scale investigation of the Community Reinvestment Act.

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http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=1&subcatid=1&threadid=4432186

[pinboy3niner]

1. So which is it, Darrell?

Issa's plans to double investigative staff if he becomes committee chair are pretty funny, considering his views on 'big government'.

Issa has eye on subpoena team

HERSHEY, Pa.— Rep. Darrell Issa, the conservative firebrand whose specialty is lobbing corruption allegations at the Obama White House, is making plans to hire dozens of subpoena-wielding investigators if Republicans win the House this fall.

The California Republican’s daily denunciations draw cheers from partisans and bookings from cable TV producers. He even bought his own earphone for live shots. But his bombastic style and attention-seeking investigations draw eye rolls from other quarters. Now, he’s making clear he won’t be so easy to shrug off if he becomes chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in 2011.

Issa has told Republican leadership that if he becomes chairman, he wants to roughly double his staff from 40 to between 70 and 80. And he is not subtle about what that means for President Barack Obama.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38697.html

Compare that to what Issa told Glenn Beck in an interview last year:

And look, I'm not telling people to vote against Democrats. I'm saying that your listeners should vote against Republicans or Democrats if they're continuing to vote for this big government. And hopefully, if a few Democrats gets taken out in the primary, and if there's any Republicans left foolish enough to vote for bigger government, take them out! Take both of them out, and we will have a better America.

Fox News Channel "The Glenn Beck Program" Interview - Transcript
Date: 06/26/2009
http://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=476524

Clearly, Issa's right--voters need to take him out before he has a chance to implement his commie/socilist big government agenda! :)