If Repubs win House - "Issa wants to be ... a subpoena machine in search of White House scandals."

[Pirate Smile]

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.
At a recent speech to Pennsylvania Republicans here, he boasted about what would happen if the GOP wins 39 seats, and he gets the power to subpoena.

“That will make all the difference in the world,” he told 400 applauding party members during a dinner at the chocolate-themed Hershey Lodge. “I won’t use it to have corporate America live in fear that we’re going to subpoena everything. I will use it to get the very information that today the White House is either shredding or not producing.”

In other words, Issa wants to be to the Obama administration what Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) was to the Clinton administration — a subpoena machine in search of White House scandals.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38697.html#ixzz0rDAV2rvP

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Too bad Issa's wet dream won't happen in his lifetime.

He is always going to be a minority.

[geek tragedy]

2. Not if the Firedoglake crowd gets their way.

Heck, some of them may apply for jobs with him.

[Cha]

31. liar dog puddle welcomes Norquist, teabaggers..

erick erickson..anyone who has it out for the President.

[Jennicut]

3. "Info the WH was shredding"...where was he with Cheney? Hyprocritcal loser.

[JohnnyBoots]

4. How is this surprising at all. BTW - Issa's brother is a convicted car thief...nt

[tsuki]

9. I was reading a while back that the story doesn't pass the smell test with

regard to Rep. Issa. Maybe it needs to be looked into further.

[Cha]

33. Issa and his brother stink to high hell.

[YvonneCa]

34. If I remember correctly, he was also involved...

...with the recall of Governor Gray Davis...prior to Arnold coming in.

[tsuki]

11. I looked up the article. Once, maybe: three times, stinky. nt

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

[Bitwit1234]

5. Cheney had a truck pull up to his Maryland mansion

that shredded material and went at it. Nobody said a word.

[monmouth]

6. Any females in the WH wearing white after Labor Day would be a scandal to that nimrod...n/t

[depakid]

7. Hate to say it, but I actually have some admiration for the guy

I mean

:wtf:

...after 8 years of criminality that appear to have permanently changed the nature and ethical makeup of the nation- where's the accountability?

[Pirate Smile]

10. Pathetic. You'll support his witchhunts.

[depakid]

12. Pathetic is FAILURE to reestablish accountability and the rule of law to pre-Bush norms

Yes- let's make no mistake, anyone who supports that failure is indeed pathetic. Actually- there are choicer words for it- but I'll stick with yours.

You know what else was pathetic?

Watching this guy a few years back:




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Murray

Basically telling Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to fuck off- and then walking away without a second thought, despite multiple violations of federal law (some of which resulted in the deaths of 6 miners and three rescue workers.

And those "regulators" who failed to do their jobs? Still there- still failing- and still not held to account, even after this occurred on Obama's watch- April 5, 2010:

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

[Pirate Smile]

14. Maybe they can Impeach him for "shaking down BP". It wont be hard to get the current

crowd of Republicans to do that over anything they can think of or hear on Fox or Rush. The current Republican Party makes the group Clinton had to deal with look sane and measured. Go ahead and encourage their fishing expeditions, I'm sure it will end well. Remember, Clinton didn't get convicted by the Senate - just Impeached by the House which doesn't exactly require the Country to support it.

The point wasn't investigating serious issues. The point was that they will just try to tie up the government in their made-up scandals - "
a subpoena machine in search of White House scandals".

"After calling the White House “corrupt” and Obama’s presidency “failed,” Issa reiterated his claims that — despite a contrary assessment from most experts — the administration violated federal law with the Sestak imbroglio."

If you don't think a Republican controlled House will impeach Obama over this kind of normal politics then you haven't been paying attention to the current crop of clowns that make up the House Republicans. These are the folks you want to assist and then don't want us to call you on it.

[depakid]

21. Apparently you missed the point so I'll spell it out bluntly

I admire the fact that the guy has the chutzpa to amp up the process- something that the hapless Democrats- who people thumbed their noses at for years, ignoring subpoenas and otherwise disrespected- seem thus far to utterly lack.

From the administration on down to the Senate and Congressional committees.

Was a time when people said- just wait'll we've got our people running the Justice Department... etc.

Well, that time's come and basically gone without a peep.

And no one's the better for it- not in America or abroad.

[Hekate]

24. Your "point" is unmissable. You left the US in disgust with Bush and now want to take down Obama.

Your "point" is destruction. You won't be happy until you can do an all-out grave-dance on the complete wreckage of the country you left behind, and as far as you are concerned, that can't happen soon enough.

Kiddo, those of us who remained behind still have a chance at mitigating what Bush-Cheney did. I DON'T think we can EVER completely undo the damage, but we sure as hell won't stand a chance if we participate in destroying Obama.
:grr:

Hekate

[Proud Liberal Dem]

25. If he was going after Bush/Cheney I'd agree with you

that is NOT who he is planning to go after and if going after Obama for.........what the hell is he going after him for again??? (hint: it has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING Bushco-related I can promise you THAT) should be considered a GOOD thing then well........:shrug: I got nothing else to say about that. :banghead:

I'm all for accountability for our public officials when it is needed but it doesn't just apply to Democrats and anybody looking to investigate Democrats and hold them "accountable" but NOT Republicans like Bush, Cheney, et. al is a f****g hypocrite plain and simple!!! :mad:

[treestar]

44. Does that include impeachment, too?

The Repukes have "guts" all right. Chutzpah. Since you admire that more than anything, why don't you just join them?

Then you won't have to complain about all that "weakness." You can just admire the abuses of power. Hey, at least they are "tough."

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[Starbucks Anarchist]

27. What a shock.

[WeDidIt]

8. Nobody wants to beleive that all they'll do is impeach Obama

and here's Issa pretty much saying all they'll do is impeach Obama.

[Pirate Smile]

16. Exactly.

[madmom]

13. What happened to ..they want smaller government?..........

"Issa has told Republican leadership that if he becomes chairman, he wants to roughly double his staff from 40 to between 70 and 80" I would bet that he already has his cronies lined up for these extra government jobs.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

29. Different party, different rules

Big government to help people/improve society and police corporations from destroying the economy and the environment=BAD

Big government to prevent gay people from making a living, getting married, and serving in the armed forces, to prevent people making their own decisions about their own personal family planning and reproductive health, to enforce a theocratic point of view on what is SUPPOSED to be a secular society, to provide corporations with numerous tax cuts/exemptions and allow them to run rampant, to wage endless "wars of choice", and to attempt to use endless frivolous investigations to overturn lawful, democratic elections=GOOD

:eyes:

Bill Maher should really make something like this one of his "rules" (if something like it already isn't)

[xxqqqzme]

15. Yea? He wanted to be governor

of California too. Overbid on that one as well.

[YvonneCa]

35. Wasn't he one of the forces behind the recall of GrayDavis in California? n/t

[Arkana]

18. One more reason why we must keep this from happening.

Issa is certifiable.

[LiberalFighter]

19. I wonder if this can be used against the Republicans?

If you elect Republicans it will be guaranteed that Republicans will waste millions of taxpayer money on false charges when jobs and economy are priority one.

[Pirate Smile]

20. Plus you can get Joe Barton as Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Woo Hoo!!!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

26. It should

PARTICULARLY because they've done it once before and are damn near certain to do it again when (or if) they EVER attain a majority in one or both houses of Congress at any point during a DEMOCRATIC Presidency. Democrats would be foolish to avoid running a few ads about this during the midterms to remind people why it's important to vote (and vote to keep the Democrats in power regardless of how weak, spineless, etc. some of them might be).

[704wipes]

43. yeah the dem candidate in his district should definitely run with it

that is if it is even a district we run anyone in.

[Pirate Smile]

23. kick

[hulka38]

28. All the more reason to develop a liberal agenda

(and do the right thing for America in the process) instead of trying to placate conservatives. We would like to have his back.

[Cha]

30. He already is one..how's that Joe Sestak/

Andrew Romanoff thing working out for him?

[Dawson Leery]

32. Republicans are tyrants. They cannot accept when they lose an election.

The top goal this fall should be to keep Republicans(who are all bad these days) out of power.

[old mark]

36. Remember in '08 the GOP ran on a slogan "Country First"? What ever happened to that? nt

[Hydra]

37. Lol

:popcorn:

President Obama has missed SO many chances.

The Republicans were dead and in the ground. A few shovels of dirt and we could have closed the book on them.

Instead, they are alive, well, and now have the potential to throw an even bigger monkeywrench in the WH's operations.

I wonder who the next Monica Lewinsky will be?

[Pirate Smile]

39. Interesting that you view it as entertaining.

[Hydra]

40. I view it as entertaining

Because I warned people about this SPECIFICALLY(among other things). I'm far from the only one, either.

President Obama choose not to do the right thing, and in fact told us to shut up, that he knew what he was doing.

That warrants popcorn, IMO.

[olegramps]

49. Obama resuscitated the Republicans with his stupid Bipartisanship crap.

I believe that he lost the opportunity to break the stranglehold that the crooks on Wall Street had on the economy and he should have never, never, compromised with the Health Care Insurance Bastards. When you get a Republican down you kick the shit out of them.

[Brother Buzz]

38. Someone would drink his milkshake before he even fired off the first subpoena

Drink it up! Bank on it. :rofl:

[Hippo_Tron]

41. Well, Bush set a precedent that you can just order the Justice Department to not enforce subpoenas

And as much as I disagree with that abuse of power, I'd love to see it backfire on the Republicans.

[Kltpzyxm]

42. How's that bipartisanship working out

centrists?

[JoeyT]

45. Well thank goodness we didn't try to impeach Bush and refused to

investigate any of his crimes after he was gone.

We'd hate to set a precedent the Republicans could use against us.

[TheKentuckian]

46. Better make sure our voters are motivated then

[Bette Noir]

47. Issa is evil in Rick Santorum proportions.

[davidpdx]

48. I bet the birthers would come out of the closet

Literally speaking....repeating the lies that he is not an American.