"The GOP Plan To Investigate Obama: The First Four Potential Investigations"

[Clio the Leo]

The GOP Plan To Investigate Obama: The First Four Potential Investigations
Ryan J. Reilly and Johanna Barr | November 3, 2010, 10:37AM

Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Lamar Smith (R-TX) have been attacking the Obama administration since pretty much the day Barack Obama took office. Until now, as just the ranking members of two powerful House committees and members of the minority party, their criticisms of administration officials and their decisions have been mostly limited to issuing press releases.

Now -- as the expected chairmen of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the House Judiciary Committee, respectively -- they're the proud new holders of subpoena power, will have a much more robust unit of investigators and will likely be a huge thorn in the side of President Obama and his top cabinet members.

Issa already laid out his agenda in a blueprint plan he released earlier this year. He told reporters in a conference call in the wee hours of Wednesday morning that his responsibility was "very broad" but that his job wasn't to bring down Obama. "I have a lot of questions that have not been answered," he said.

Smith, on the other, has grilled Attorney General Eric Holder over immigration enforcement -- including Holder's comments on the Arizona immigration law -- as well as for his handling of terrorism trials in civilian court and the attempts to close Guantanamo Bay ("We have no speculation for you at this time on what effect the mid-term election may or may not have on this issue," DOJ spokesman Dean Boyd told TPMMuckraker about the Gitmo issue yesterday).

Holder seems to know what he's in for from Smith. "Lamar, will you be nice to me after January?" Holder asked the Texas Republican, Smith recalled.

"In the House Judiciary Committee, we will focus on initiatives that protect Americans and create jobs, including strengthening national security, enforcing immigration laws, protecting intellectual property, preventing frivolous lawsuits and keeping children safe from sex predators," Smith said in a statement Wednesday.

Here are a few of the controversies you can expect to hear more about in the next two years.

1. New Black Panther Party

2. Joe Sestak's Job Offer

3. ACORN's Offspring

4. BP Oil Spill

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[begin_within]

1. Well it's good to hear they have their priorities right! Nevermind about unemployment.

[HipChick]

5. Yeah..Screw the people

[ProSense]

2. Surprise! n/t

[warrior1]

3. It will be

being President and black.

They only have one issue with our President and that's the color of his skin.

[dennis4868]

4. What about congress investigating this....

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/25/ISSA.TMP

[phantom power]

6. Yup. The GOP has no problem putting impeachment back on the table.

[jillan]

7. Good - let them waste taxpayer dollars in this economy. They will find NOTHING. Nothing will get

done, the economy will still be in the tank & we will have something else to run on.

Remember - Obama's approval rating is still high.

[Democrats_win]

8. Democrats need to watch these "representatives" for THEIR illegal activities.

How many of them will have trysts with congressional pages? A new Jack Abramoff will be as certain as the sun rising. These dirty nutbaggers will be as crooked as a foreclosure mill operator.

[impik]

9. Oh yes. Please do.

I hope to see millions of black people burning the streets.

[Clio the Leo]

10. That's exactly my thoughts..

... no so much if he's investigated, but under the unlikely scenario where they'd try to impeach him. Things could get scary (and I dont mean "scary black people in the streets" I'd prob. be out there with them.)

[ampad]

14. This is what I do not get

Whenever people talk about impeachment and challenging Obama they fail to realize the racial implications. It is as if they are denying the fact. I say try to primary challenge him and please do try to impeach him. If the tea baggers think they are angry they have not seen anything if they choose to go there.

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[dionysus]

13. huge surprise you want the GOP to try and crucify Obama... i'm stunned...

:rofl:

[ej510]

12. Issa said the Sestak job offer was an impeachable offense.

[EC]

15. Issa should really be embarrassed to investigate these

non-issues and will be shown a fool...at least to the sane...but will get a big pat on the back from the TP's and repubs...c'mon the New Black Panther Party? ACORN offspring? give me a break...what a waste of time and money...I hope that now they put a stop to this crap, they don't need to play for the base anymore - they've got them scared and believing this shit already..I'm sure they don't want these things investigated in the open because then they will be revealed as nothings...