Issa reveals list of investigations

[Swede]

Get out the pitchforks.


Rep. Darrell Issa is aiming to launch investigations on everything from WikiLeaks to Fannie Mae to corruption in Afghanistan in the first few months of what promises to be a high-profile chairmanship of the top oversight committee in Congress.

According to an outline of hearing topics obtained by POLITICO, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is also planning to investigate how regulation impacts job creation, the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the foreclosure crisis, recalls at the Food and Drug Administration and the failure of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission to agree on the causes of the market meltdown.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=49FC7CB2-D0AB-9CF2-59E1F82EC8CB9358

[Parche]

1. how about investigation into 9/11???

or is that dooshbag issa too afraid it might reveal the truth.....
:hi:

[rurallib]

19. Yes indeed! that needs a good looking into

[Cleita]

2. No doubt being paid out of our Treasury.

Strange how the Republicans don't scream about deficits when they are spending the money.

[FSogol]

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

all the time and money that Issa wastes on sham investigations. He should get bashed with the clock every time he opens his pie hole.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. absolutely not! Gotta keep that powder dry!

How dare you fight with truth and facts on your side? That is so unfair. It might hurt their feelings!

[Angry Dragon]

4. Bring it on

then investigate bush lies and his torture program

[tigereye]

5. that guy is such a tool- ugh.

[AC_Mem]

6. How about an investigation into Issa?

Flip the focus and start to reveal his shady past. The fact that he is in charge of ETHICS is a perfect example of the complete hypocricy of the GOP and the upside down country we are living in today.

Please, Democratic Congressmen, please fight for us.

Annette

[katnapped]

9. Yes, please

Surely there's a few more skeletons in Darrell's closet (aside from the carjackings)

[Cleita]

20. There is very good anecdotal evidence of cheating

on the recall petitions that he financed to recall Grey Davis. It needs investigation. The paid petition gatherers need to be put under oath to testify that they lied to people about what the petitions were that they signed. I heard from more than one person that when they were approached to sign the petition and refused, the petition gatherer would pull out another petition that was against the recall for them to sign. Those petitions never saw the light of day. We are suspicious that those signatures were added to the recall petitions. However, to prove this, someone official is going to have to investigate and get both petition gatherers and petition signers under oath to testify what happened. I hope our new Attorney General does just that because it would have to be done in California, not Washington. However, it would be enough to put him away and out of public life.

Also, there was more scuttlebutt about petitions being offered for liberal causes that the recall petition gatherers were offering to people to sign. Really, this needs investigation.

[GoCubsGo]

7. Can't wait to see how he handles things when...

...all of these "investigations" show that his ratfuck party was the cause of all that corruption.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

12. I predict that just like the 9/11 commission,

serious editing will take place. Think of 11 of 19 Saudi Arabians being involved in the attack, and how the commission managed to remove all references to them.

[MilesColtrane]

8. Let me guess.

The results of these investigations will be, Obama is a sleeper cell Muslim Commie?

[gratuitous]

11. Sure glad Democrats don't waste time on investigations

By the way, Nancy; THIS is why we handed you and your party the reins of power in 2008. We the people wanted to take a look into the depradations of the previous administration. I don't agree with Issa, and I'm sure the Crybaby will waste a lot of time and money with his grandstanding, but as far as poking around in the shady activities of the Bush administration, watch and learn, goddammit.

[Loge23]

13. +100! Thanks for that! (eom)

[arcane1]

14. Sadly, none of these investigations even need results

Because they will be perfect election-season fodder. The mere existence of an investigation equals "corruption" in a campaign ad.

[L. Coyote]

15. Issa is all headlines, no follow through. He should investigate himself and his role

in the US Attorney firings!

[Better Believe It]

16. When Democrats regain control of the House they'll go after Republicans just like they did to Bush!

Oh .... sorry.

They didn't go after George W. Bush, they enabled him.

[guruoo]

17. "Someday this war's gonna end... "

[Alfa Mouille]

18. Our Tax Dollers

Nothing like a bushel-full of specious investigations and witch hunts to demonstrate fiscal restraint and responsibility. I'd love to say that this sort of behavior didn't do the Republicans any favors in the Clinton years, but though they experienced blowback for their obvious overreach, this sort of politics reproduces the notion of general governmental taint, which plays into the hands of a party that is now essentially advocating the destruction of the State, anarchy combined with the best equipped army in history.

[wiggs]

21. have to say that hearings, investigations, and sternly worded letters have been

used by both sides to appear active in support of the base. There is a difference, though. Dems have avoided issues with explosive political implications and gop will pursue those that maximize political witch-hunts. Another difference: dem hearings tend to be pro-consumer and gop will be pro-deregulation.

In the end...gop will govern in a way that maximizes advantages for 2012 campaigning...impuning dems, smearing, doing one thing and saying another, framing, messaging, etc.

They will do what they do...we have to counter their misinformation efforts much more vigorously.

[SpiralHawk]

22. I hope Issa will look into the Republicon 'Diaper Sex with Hookers' scandal

That would take a load off of everyone's mind...

[spanone]

23. #1 priority should be the former president who took an entire nation to war based on lies

but, that's so yesterday....

[Golden Raisin]

24. How about an investigation

into all those lucrative contracts lobbed over to Halliburton under Bush/Cheney?