The GOP Plan To Investigate Obama: The First Four Potential Investigations

[Lochloosa]

Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Lamar Smith (R-TX) have been attacking the Obama administration since pretty much the day Barack Obama took office. Until now, as just the ranking members of two powerful House committees and members of the minority party, their criticisms of administration officials and their decisions have been mostly limited to issuing press releases.

Now -- as the expected chairmen of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the House Judiciary Committee, respectively -- they're the proud new holders of subpoena power, will have a much more robust unit of investigators and will likely be a huge thorn in the side of President Obama and his top cabinet members.

Issa already laid out his agenda in a blueprint plan he released earlier this year. He told reporters in a conference call in the wee hours of Wednesday morning that his responsibility was "very broad" but that his job wasn't to bring down Obama. "I have a lot of questions that have not been answered," he said.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/the_gop_plan_to_investigate_obama_the_first_four_potential_investigations.php


And so it begins......

[Ganja Ninja]

1. Not taking anything off the table I see.

I hope the Democrats are taking notes. This is how you should have dealt with the Bush cabal. Watch and learn how a political party plays hardball.

[niceypoo]

2. Rezko

Rezko

[no_hypocrisy]

3. All fallacious and without foundation.

Better to play with those distractions than fix the economy.

:sarcasm:

[Lochloosa]

6. Exactly!

[Kind of Blue]

4. Jeez, what for? n/t

[MadMaddie]

5. Wanna hear something funny?

I have been in an email battle with some coworkers who believe that the Republicans and Teabaggers are talking impeachent. They said that there is no way the Repugs would do that because it would be disasterous. Well, I will let them find out themselves once Faux starts running hog wild with it.:rofl: :popcorn:

[Bitwit1234]

7. There are a ot questions not asked and answered in HIS

background either.

[CitizenLeft]

8. Issa's going to be on Maher Friday night.

Interesting to see how he spins his intention to impeach a sitting president on anything he find on him short of a blow job. Jaywalking, maybe. Yeah. That'll do it. Obama's got to go.

[yellowcanine]

9. Boehner makes a big mistake if he doesn't smack down Issa on this.

These are clearly fishing expeditions and this was not why people voted for Republicans. Didn't Republicans learn anything from the Clinton impeachment?