"Five people in this town take Darrell Issa seriously."

'No I can't prove anything yet, but I have faith that someday I will."

Courtesy of Politico: 

The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee blasted White House press secretary Jay Carney on Sunday, calling him a “paid liar” who is not being truthful about the scandal at the Internal Revenue Service. 

“Their paid liar, their spokesperson, the picture behind, he’s still making up things about what happened and calling this a local rogue,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” gesturing to a graphic of Carney on the set. 

Issa’s committee provided CNN a transcript of an IRS employee interviewed under oath who said that it seemed as if the idea to single out conservative groups for additional scrutiny came from Washington. The Obama administration has maintained that local IRS agents in a single agency division have been responsible for the scandal.

Essentially Issa said, in his interview with Candy Crowley,  that they were still gathering evidence and did not have the hard evidence to support the fact that Washington had anything to do with the IRS asking additional questions about receiving a tax exempt status from those identifying themselves as Tea Party members.

Issa is jumping to a completely unsubstantiated conclusion based on his overwhelming desire to catch the President and his administration in some wrongdoing.When he talked about his plan to get the documents to back up his allegations he also mentioned getting the documents pertaining to "Fast and Furious" proving that this guy is living in a world of paranoia and hate that makes him completely unfit to be the Chairman of ANYTHING much less the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

That is like having Michele Bachmann on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. It's a joke.

This led to former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to say the following:  

“Well, first of all, Darrell Issa should call Jay Carney and apologize this morning,” Gibbs said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” 

“I mean, it’s a stunning thing,” Gibbs said of Issa’s charges. “It’s why five people in this town take Darrell Issa seriously and it’s the surest bet the Republicans are very much on the verge of overplaying their hand publicly and the American people will lose interest in their side of this. They want to see the IRS cleaned up, but they will understand quickly that Darrell Issa is doing nothing more than politicizing this event.” 

Former White House Chief of Staff David Plouffe had even stronger words:  

“Strong words from Mr Grand Theft Auto and suspected arsonist/insurance swindler. And loose ethically today,” Plouffe tweeted on Sunday, 

You know when you watch Issa going after the administration like this you can almost hear what is going on in his head. He is following a pathetic and treacherous tradition among the Republican party, and that is to investigate every imagined misstep by a Democratic administration in the hopes it will lead to an actual scandal, or at least something that can be blown up to appear scandalous and damage the President and his party.

Issa may recognize that he is investigating "Whitewater" but in his mind he is thinking "Monica Leweinsky."

Which is even more pathetic considering that the impeachment of Bill Clinton backfired on the GOP in a big way. Though to be honest it was what helped George W. Bush get into the White House.

When is a scandal not a scandal? About one minute after the Republicans call it a scandal.