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TexasTowelie

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Mon Oct 24, 2016, 11:52 PM Oct 2016

Obama lashes out at Issa in San Diego

President Barack Obama had sharp words for Rep. Darrell Issa Sunday night, contending the Vista Republican’s “primary contribution to the United States Congress has been to obstruct and to waste taxpayer dollars on trumped-up investigations that have led nowhere.”

Obama’s comments came at a La Jolla event to raise money for Democratic congressional candidates. Among those in attendance was Doug Applegate, who’s in a close race with Issa.

Issa, when he was chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led investigations into the Obama administration’s Internal Revenue Service, the bungled “Fast and Furious” gun trading-operation and how it handled the attack in Benghazi.

“This is now a guy,” Obama said of Issa, “who because poll numbers are bad has sent out brochures with my picture on them touting his cooperation on issues with me. That is the definition of chutzpah.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/politics/sd-me-obama-san-diego-20161023-story.html

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