Issa Targets Obama Legislative Agenda With Panels on Economy, Bank Rescues

[Joanne98]

Source: Bloomberg

Representative Darrell Issa, House Republicans’ new chief investigator, is expanding his oversight committee to focus on the heart of President Barack Obama’s legislative achievements.

The California Republican, who has called Obama’s administration “corrupt,” says he will hold hundreds of hearings as chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

He has created two subcommittees to scrutinize policies defining Obama’s first two years in office: the $814 billion economic-stimulus plan and the bailouts of banks and automakers. A third panel will oversee Obama’s health-care overhaul.

Issa’s decisions signal that, at least initially, he wants to focus on issues that helped Republicans regain the House majority in the Nov. 2 elections, said Mark Paoletta, a lawyer who helped run investigations for the House Energy and Commerce Committee when the party was last in control before 2007.



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[barbtries]

1. he just wants to ruin Obama.

nothing else matters.

[shanti]

12. just like he ruined gray davis here in cali

except it didn't exactly turn out the way he wanted it to, as the gropenator became governor, not him. issa is a snake of the slimiest sort, like another reptile, the newt!

[Old and In the Way]

2. Bread and Circuses.

Light on the Bread, heavy on the Circuses. I hope Democrats give Issa's agenda all of the seriousness that it deserves. Use your time to tell jokes.

[aggiesal]

3. I wonder how much ...

investigating Bush will play into this, since both the Bank and Auto bailout
were instigated by the previous administration.

Hey Darrell, here's a suggestion how about investigating the outing of a CIA operative?
Or how about investigating lying us into 2 wars?
Where did the $9B in football cash disappear in IRAQ?
Why was the Bank Bailout only suppose to be $860B, turn out to be $3.3T

One last investigation, why did your company take out fire insurance, and then the
next week your facility burned down?

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Will he call Bush to testify about TARP?

[thecrow]

19. How about Paulson?

Get him in off his yacht and ask him about the 3 page declaration that said it could not be investigated.
Investigate THAT.

[Politicub]

5. There should be an ever increasing total on whitehouse.gov that shows the $$ that GOP is wasting

with its witch hunts.

I'm sure it will be a large number, and the people have a right to know.

[sulphurdunn]

8. Issa's worth about $200 million.

That makes him the wealthiest member of Congress. Issa could pay for these investigations out of pocket and not touch his campaign contributions. But then, you don't get filthy rich spending your own money.

Speaking of contributions. Following the 2010 elections, Issa sent a letter to more than 150 trade associations, companies and think tanks, including those of the oil industry, drug manufacturers and other political players with deep pockets. He wanted them to advise him on which Obama administration regulations to target for repeal in the upcoming Congress.

[Politicub]

10. He's shameless

His nakedness about getting advice from business about which regulations to attack made me retch.

[JDPriestly]

15. My question has always been: Where does Issa's money really come from?

I can't believe that car alarms are that profitable.

[The Magistrate]

17. He Is A Car-Thief, Ma'am: Probably Has Chop-Shops, And Smuggling Rings To Russia

"Once a thief, always a thief."

[yellowcanine]

6. Good, because by nearly all accounts the economy is improving and the rescue programs, stimulus, etc

prevented a much worse recession, maybe a depression. Not only that, but overall the rescue programs may actually MAKE money for the American taxpayers. Bring it on, Darrell!

[cynzke]

11. Amen!

Bring it on. Put our money where your mouth is. Have the investigations and prove you are wrong. Obama will be exonerated....Darrell and Company will look like fools.

[bongbong]

7. JOBS!

The repigs are providing jobs all right...jobs, on the gov't payroll, for their incompetent cronies and lawyer buddies who couldn't keep a job in the private sector for more than a minute.

[LynneSin]

9. Does this asshole know that TARP was done under BUSH!!!???!!!

idiot

[florida08]

13. oh yeah this bipartisan thing

is going to work out well. After the recent tragedy Issa's going to look like a vampire and a nazi.

[maritzasolito]

14. Banks Bail out, Oct. 2008, President-Elect-Obama, Nov_4_2008.

January 20, 2009=President Obama. The can of worms will be a b!cht for the NOPE-ERS!

[SoapBox]

16. Issa...ScumBag Supreme. And...he's a crook and creep...

Too bad that his Wikipedia page got scrubbed of some great slime in his history.

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

[sofa king]

18. He's asking for it....

Damned near every Republican on that committee is linked to any one of the four dozen or so highly important criminal scandals which the Bush Administration and Congress got away with from 2000-2006.

For example, practically at random:

* Dan Burton loves to accept free golf trips, just like Speaker Boehner;

* John Mica (FL): Currently stiff-arming accusations of embezzlement and interfering in his daughter's DWI charges, among other things.

* Connie Mack (FL): Made to go away questions of his involvement in the highly unconstitutional "http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2008/04/despite-admissi.html">Cocoanut Road" incident from 2005. It can come back any time.

* Pat Meehan: Potentially faces accusations of libel for smearing political opponent...

And on and on and on. There is a reason the House Oversight Committee doesn't dare even name a Democrat on its home page, and no longer even has a working membership page that shows Democratic members of the Committee. Because they're a bunch of fuckin' criminals who are going to try to use this committee to protect themselves.

But they are still desperately vulnerable to exposure, because dragging out a Bush scandal that warrants any one of their resignations will be as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.

So watch for the President to fire back, straight down into the barrel, and watch 'em start to float up.