“I want seven hearings a week, times 40 weeks,” Issa said.

[babylonsister]

IOW, he's the tool the rethugs will use to get nothing done, again. Brilliant! :eyes:


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44850.html#ixzz14n4Rkqkj

California Rep. Darrell Issa is already eyeing a massive expansion of oversight for next year, including hundreds of hearings; creating new subcommittees; and launching fresh investigations into the bank bailout, the stimulus and, potentially, health care reform.

Issa told POLITICO in an interview that he wants each of his seven subcommittees to hold “one or two hearings each week.”

“I want seven hearings a week, times 40 weeks,” Issa said.

[CanonRay]

1. This is smaller government?

[madmax]

2. Of course you do.

Because you fuckers think life is one big soap opera and just want do pick and poke at bullshit.

WE THE FUCKING PEOPLE, remember that asshat? You all love to use that pharase up the ying yang. Do some work for US! You overpaid ignorant bastard. I'll say it loud - you fucking FASCIST prick!

:rant:

[felinetta]

24. Wow, that was so brilliant what you just said. Thank you for posting. Excellent!!

[SugarShack]

32. Can we start with Bush war crimes and Cheney outing Plame?

fun fun fun...Obama should put his own hearings in there...he thought he should play nice???

[displacedvermoter]

33. Too late

now that the Obama/Pelosi/Reid looking forward team let that pass.

Interesting to see what happens now that the Republicans start looking backwards, as we all knew they would given the chance.

[madmax]

35. You're right

we should have gone in like gangbusters. The way the unelected one did and just ram shit down everyones throat. Start with bush/cheney and the illegal war, outing Valerie Plame and a so many others but, take the most egregious and save the tax payers some money.

If it weren't for 9/11 I wonder how much shit the GOP could have gotten away with.

on edit: I vacillate between we should have done this or we did the right thing. I struggle with that on a daily basis. As if it's of any importance to the world or universe whatever the hell I think.

[shraby]

3. Maybe the Dems should refuse to honor the subpoenas

the same way the Bushies did. Betcha they will be tossed in the clink until they change their minds.

[felinetta]

25. They should say as soon as Rove honors his, they will do likewise.

[paparush]

4. When their stated goal is not to create jobs, or balance the budget, but when their

stated goal is to "..make sure president Obama is not reelected" we can expect nothing less.

[Raine1967]

5. Interesting -- considering just 4 years ago

we couldn't get them to stay in DC more than 3 days a week. Remember that? From December 2006:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/05/AR2006120501342.html

<....> "Keeping us up here eats away at families," said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. "Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families -- that's what this says."

Time away from Washington is just as important to being an effective member of Congress as time spent in the Capitol, Kingston added. "When I'm here, people call me Mr. Congressman. When I'm home, people call me 'Jack, you stupid SOB, why did you vote that way?' It keeps me grounded."

Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-Calif.), who had intended to retire this year, only to be persuaded to run again, wondered whether the new schedule was more than symbolic. "If we're doing something truly productive, that's one thing," he said. "If it's smoke-and-mirrors hoopla, that's another."

<...>
Setting a calendar that satisfies 435 members is impossible, said the current majority leader, Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who will become minority leader in January. "Between the travel issues, the members' work schedules, the family and district issues, it was a Rubik's cube," he said.
================================================

Does this mean they still plan on working 5 days a week? Mr Issa certainly seems to be up for it.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. Issa's Employer a Lawyer Act.

there will be many, many needed for this.

[madmax]

9. And professional testifiers.

:( :mad:

Have nothing against lawyers. Everyone hates them until it's their ass in the wringer, then they want Melvin Belli.

I didn't take your post to mean that in a negative way about lawyers but, yes it will and we'll be paying for it for bullshit. This will not be about health care reform or any other of the cover stories. It's going to be a witch hunt about Obama.

But, then again we all know that. I'm so pissed off I can't see or think.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

39. no ofense taken, plus, I am a lawyer

and you are right, it will be a witch hunt.
which hunt?
wit shunt.

[LiberalFighter]

17. They don't have a right to complain about not spending enough time with their families.

They ran for the job knowing full well that it should take up a lot of their time. To suggest they need to return to their home district every week to see their constituents is bullcrap. That is why they have offices in their district with staff.

[Frustratedlady]

6. Well, that makes a lot of sense. And, who is getting paid to research the "issue"?

You're going to take up the time of staffers to dig up some dirt for 7 hearings a week? Or are you going to go into the hearings without facts on your side?

Oh, my bad. I forgot that's how you already operate.

What a gang...WHAT a gang.

[GoCubsGo]

28. Never mind who is getting paid...

Who is paying for it? You going to remind the taxpayers that they're going to be footing the bill for all your investigations, Car Alarm Guy? After you and your ilk got re-elected by screaming about the deficit? Didn't think so.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. The real problem with this?

Not the waste of time, nor the aggravation he causes, but Obama's efforts to reach across the aisle. He will cave in to Issa in an effort to cooperate, which will only drive Issa on to further, nastier hearings.

[madmax]

10. Bingo Baby ! n/t

[Skink]

11. Obama should offer to investigate himself.

and recommend Issa do the same.

[ProSense]

12. Let them.

Two years is not a long time politically. There is a lot Obama can focus on during this time. By the end of next year, the 2012 campaigns begin. Republicans will have to stand on their record.

[niyad]

13. hey, issa, maybe it's time YOU were recalled.

[vanlassie]

14. Asshat.

[AngryAmish]

15. Issa turn the wheel, turn the wheel Issa

That song was stuck in my head for about three months.

[TomClash]

16. What happens if - at the first hearing -

the witness shows up with the 3 BCT of the 101st Airborne? :crazy: :rofl:

[jaxx]

18. The modern day vigilante.

:puke:

[nyc 4 Biden]

26. A uber-rich vigilante at that.

His net worth has been estimated at more than $250 million, making him the "richest member of Congress".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Issa

[LiberalFighter]

19. The Democrats and the Democratic Party needs to display on their websites

how much time and money Issa and other Republicans waste.

[jillan]

20. You get the government you deserve. This is what happens when Dems don't vote.

[FSogol]

21. The Democrats need to create a clock and a counter to calculate all the

man-hours that the GOP wastes having fishing expeditions and phony hearings. Keep reminding the public daily/weekly the hours wasted and the cost to the tax payers.

[Raine1967]

22. +1 That is a great idea. eom

[Stinky The Clown]

23. This is what a functioning asshole looks like

[felinetta]

27. Issa another poster child for the banality of evil.

[sammytko]

29. don't sub-committes have hearings all the time already?

Its their job to investigate whether a bill is worth voting or not. By investigate - doesn't mean someone is going to prison - just finding out info on what would be best in this situation.

He is saying this cuz it sounds good, and he isn't REALLY telling tall tales...

[ProSense]

30. Yes, but

Issa is an ass, and cleary intends to abuse his power.

<...>

To put it in perspective, the outgoing chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), was pretty aggressive towards the end of the Bush/Cheney administration, holding 203 oversight hearings in two years. Issa intends to hold 280 oversight hearings in 2011 alone.

This would be less disconcerting if Issa were more responsible, but he's not. Just yesterday, the far-right Californian told ABC that the Obama administration "received $700 billion worth of walking around money in the stimulus and used it just that way.... I think his administration has a lot of explaining where the $700 billion went."

Of course, this is pretty nonsensical. The Recovery Act has been entirely transparent, with unprecedented levels of accountability -- there's even a website to account for every dollar spent. Despite its size, the stimulus has "strikingly few claims of fraud or abuse" precisely because the administration has been so assiduous on this. Issa makes it sound like no one knows where the money went -- but that's backwards.

Worse, this notion that the Recovery Act was made up of "walking around money" suggests Issa doesn't even pay attention to the subjects he claims to care about -- stimulus money is spent, not at the discretion of administration officials, but by a publicly available merit-based formula.

The problem isn't that Issa wants to hold the administration accountable; the problem is that Issa doesn't seem to realize the difference between legitimate areas of inquiry and partisan nonsense.

link

[golfguru]

31. Term limits will solve all the problems

of egotistical politicians who have been feeding at
the public trough too long. How long have we been
paying Issa's salary & expense accounts? Too fricking long.

[Bobbie Jo]

34. Wow. Who could have predicted...

:eyes:

[Whisp]

36. let the fucker try it.

Obama is no fool and knows what these scumbuckets are like.

We will see a different side of Obama this second half of his term - just you watch

[Phx_Dem]

37. So do I, Darrell. That's the fastest way I know to get rid of you and your cohorts.

So bring it.

[Democat]

38. A massive expansion of government by Issa?

Impeach Issa!