darrell issa ---- prick exraordinaire

[spanone]

Republican plans investigations of 'corrupt' Obama administration

One of the more contentious political battles this year figures to be between the Obama White House and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. -- the Republicans' top congressional investigator in his role as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

A signal of the coming conflict: Issa says he regrets calling Obama "one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times" -- he meant to refer to the Obama administration in general.

"When you hand out $1 trillion in TARP just before this president came in, most of it unspent, $1 trillion nearly in stimulus that this president asked for, plus this huge expansion in health care and government, it has a corrupting effect," Issa said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union. "When I look at waste, fraud and abuse in the bureaucracy and in the government, this is like steroids to pump up the muscles of waste."

Investigations dominated the political dynamic the last time Washington saw a Republican House and a Democratic president, leading to the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/01/republican-plans-investigations-of-corrupt-obama-investigation/1

[warrior1]

1. the last time he did this

someone else ate his lunch. Bring on asshole.

[spanone]

4. his 'concern' only applies to democratic administrations

[RKP5637]

2. I listened to him this morning. He's about as lame as one can get. Yeah, this

should really help solve all of the problems the US has - what a waste.

[DainBramaged]

3. I wonder how he will react when the finger points at his Puke friends?

[JoePhilly]

5. He's drunk with power ... and he's clearly an angry drunk!!

[spanone]

7. compare this to 'impeachment is off the table'

they will impeach Obama in a heartbeat...

bu$h* tortured

bu$h* lied us into war

mr issa had NO problem with that....none whatsoever

[asjr]

6. Issa's racism is front and center.

[Cleita]

8. Mr. Issa is a crook and gangster in a suit and tie.

He really needs to be investigated, especially for cheating on the recall of Grey Davis. Maybe Kamala Harris will step up to the plate in California and start an investigation. There's a lot of anecdotal evidence of fraud in the petition gathering for the recall. It needs to be officially investigated and testimony gathered in this regard.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Will Issa also investigate *? He's the one who originated the TARP program.

[33Greeper]

10. Why not investigate

War Crimes of the Bush Administration?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. Bachmann on Intel, Issa on Oversight.

the GOP really hate this country, don't they?

[NV Whino]

12. Issa is a slimeball

a crook and an embarrassment to California.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. What does he have exactly on the Obama Administration?

or, more accurately, what does he THINK he has on the Obama Administration? Based on the kind of things that he says that he's going to be looking into, it seems to me that he basically views his newly acquired position as a means to re-litigate past fights over legislative battles that the Republicans ultimately lost and/or Fox News-hyped *scandals* that didn't go anywhere. While "stuff" surely happens in any and every Administration, I can't imagine that Issa's sitting on some bombshell scandal that has remained hidden even from Fox News. If Obama is two years into his Presidency and hasn't had any major scandals, I can't imagine exactly what the right is going to pull out as proof now that, as Issa put it, the Obama Administration is the most corrupt one in modern times. :eyes: I wonder what the rabid right is going to do when Issa isn't able to come up with anything to try to tarnish Obama with?

[randr]

15. He doen't have to have anything

All he has to have is the chair of this committee and he will be in the news every week with some new accusation that will eventually be dismissed by most and held as gospel truth by the usual 29%.

[hedgehog]

18. We will never change the mind of the rabid right. However,

eventually the large number of people who tend to ignore politics will notice the stink and do something about it. Joe McCarthy didn't go down in flames because the Left opposed him, he went down when he disgusted the middle. I'm going to enjoy watching the Republicans go down in flames over the next two years!

Addendum: what will change the minds of the rabid right will be the words of all the Republicans who talked Tea Party all during the elections who now will talk "like serious adults" now that they are in power. When the members of the rabid right start to realize that they were used by the corporists to regain power, then discarded after the election, it won't be pretty.

[randr]

14. Democrates not using this committee to do serious damage to

repugs over the last two years is a major cause of the situation we are now in.
While I think Issa is a prick extraordinaire, I have to admire him for doing his job!

[DainBramaged]

16. Why didn't "my other brother darrell" probe corruption during the Booshe years?

[lsewpershad]

17. Why

Is this puke not in prison? Not to worry Issaapuke your time will come.

[gratuitous]

19. Kinda gives away his game even before the get-go

"When you hand out $1 trillion in TARP just before this president came in . . ." Uh, so how does that square with the Obama administration's alleged corruption, Rep. "Crybaby" Issa? If it happened before he was elected, any corruption imputes to, you know, the previous administration.

Hey, maybe we can get some investigations of the Bush administration going after all?