Monday, June 03, 2013

"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.

50 comments:

  1. Randall6:38 AM

    Yeah, Issa - just keep fuckin' that chicken.

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    1. Anonymous9:53 AM

      He always struck as the type who actually does fuck chickens.

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    2. Beldar J Conehead12:02 PM

      No question. A certified, world-class, top-seeded, Olympics-level, textbook chicken fucker.

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  2. Anonymous6:57 AM

    'Mr. Grand Theft Auto' gets a brush-back pitch
    By Steve Benen
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    Mon Jun 3, 2013 8:00 AM EDT

    Unlike Issa's rhetorical jabs, Plouffe's brush-back pitch at least has the benefit of accuracy. As we discussed a few weeks ago, Issa, the man Republicans have tasked with leading investigations into alleged administration misdeeds, really has spent a fair amount of his adult life as a suspected criminal. This Ryan Lizza piece in the New Yorker from a couple of years ago remains relevant.

    "Many politicians have committed indiscretions in earlier years: maybe they had an affair or hired an illegal immigrant as a nanny. Issa, it turned out, had, among other things, been indicted for stealing a car, arrested for carrying a concealed weapon, and accused by former associates of burning down a building."

    This is generally one of those truths the political world knows, but chooses not to talk about. It's not a secret -- Issa's background is the subject of insider jokes and private chatter -- but it's considered impolite to broach the subject publicly.

    Which makes Plouffe's rhetorical shot all the more interesting.

    For the record, Lizza's report on Issa highlighted one run-in with the law after another, including arrests and indictments. There are also many suspected crimes -- he's accused of deliberately burning down a building and threatening a former employee with a gun -- which did not lead to formal charges, but which nevertheless cast the congressman in a less-than-flattering light.

    The New Yorker report also noted an incident in which Issa was in a car accident with a woman who needed to be hospitalized. He drove away before the police could arrive because, as he told the person he hit, he didn't have time to wait. Issa didn't face charges, but he was sued over the matter, and agreed to an out-of-court settlement.

    And in case those angles weren't quite enough, the same article also noted instances in which Issa appears to have lied about his background.

    The congressman, for example, claimed to receive the "highest possible" ratings during his Army career, despite the fact that at one point he "received unsatisfactory conduct and efficiency ratings and was transferred to a supply depot." Issa also claimed to have provided security for President Nixon in 1971, which wasn't true, and said he won a national Entrepreneur of the Year award, but didn't.

    Perhaps he's not the kind of guy who should casually throw around words like "liar."

    http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/06/03/18720608-mr-grand-theft-auto-gets-a-brush-back-pitch?lite

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    1. Anonymous8:38 AM

      Thanks for posting this... Issa is a proven criminal and a totally incompetent public servant.

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    2. Anonymous12:35 PM

      And going back to his earlier years, he dropped out of high school and later earned his GED. After his years of borderline legal behavior, he found his gravy boat, politics.
      Not exactly stellar preparation for a public servant.

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  3. Robert Gibbs needs to be much stronger in his appearances on morning Joe - very disappointing when I have seen him - suddenly he seems to be supporting both sides. The IRS is just fine - doing its job & Gibbs should say that.

    Glad that David Plouffe says it like it is.

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  4. Sharon7:06 AM

    How Ca keeps electing this asswipe is beyond me...come on. You notice he made so much noise in the beginning of Obama's first term....then latched onto Fast & Furious....finally something he can grab the headlines with. He is like a cartoon character, scarey he has the power he does. Please proceed asshole...bury yourself deeper and deeper. He has a super hard on against Holder and Obama and could care less about the outrageous krap the GOP does.

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    1. His Congressional District is in far southern California. My parents, who live in Oceanside, are stuck in his District; they have never voted for him and would love to see him replaced by a Democrat.

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  5. angela7:16 AM

    I'm loving David Plouffe. Democrats need to start going there with these screeching republican idiots. But watch for some weenie dog Dem to condemn what Plouffe said.

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  6. Anonymous7:30 AM

    I think Plouffe showed that he's had just about enough of the RWNJs for this week.

    Imagine what the rest of the world thinks when it reads about the circus freaks and known criminals elected by the American people.

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  7. Anonymous8:15 AM

    Scarborough Goes After Issa For Calling Jay Carney A ‘Paid Liar’: ‘You Can’t Say Things Like This’

    Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) went after the Obama administration hard on Sunday, charging that the IRS targeting was “directly ordered from Washington” and deeming White House Press Secretary Jay Carney a “paid liar.” Responding to the criticism on Monday, Joe Scarborough didn’t approve of Issa’s approach. It’s simply making him look bad, he argued.

    “Darrell Issa hurts himself and his cause more than Jay Carney or the White House when he calls him a paid liar,” Scarborough asserted. There’s a lot working against Carney right now, so he and Mika Brzezinski agreed that Issa should just let the issue breathe.

    Carney’s said many things “clearly not in line with the facts,” Scarborough agreed. “But if you’re in this position as a chairman, responsible for these investigations, that just basically announces to everybody — I’m not saying he is — ‘I’m a partisan. Anything that I conclude is based on my partisan beliefs.’ You’ve got to pull back and you’ve — you can’t say things like this.”

    Harold Ford, Jr. agreed that such remarks damage Issa’s “credibility.” He should let the facts come out, he added, and not appear as if he’s already made up his mind before the investigations conclude.

    Take a look, via MSNBC:

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/scarborough-goes-after-issa-for-calling-jay-carney-a-paid-liar-you-cant-say-things-like-this/

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  8. O/T but this is for Gryphen!

    Did you see "Game of fucking Thrones" last NIGHT! That shit was off the damn HOOK!

    I couldn't sleep after...shit was so damn crazy! I'm ordering the books off of Amazon right now...it's going to be my summer reading! I need to know what else is about to go down! LOL!!!

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    1. Anonymous10:11 AM

      Divorcing HBO: Sunday’s Brutal Game of Thrones Goes Way Too Far

      ...But the episode just witnessed (“The Rains of Castamere”)…the show that will go down as the most-talked-about-on-Twitter episode in the history of the program…went way, way (way) too far. And that’s saying a lot considering everything we’ve seen on the hit HBO original series to this point.

      Having said that, the following declaration comes without ambiguity: I am done with Thrones. Never again will I watch another episode.

      So what was different about Sunday night’s episode?

      There are two hard and fast rules every television show and movie should live by:

      • Never kill a dog or an animal that looks like a dog (like a brave wolf protective of certain humans)
      • Never stab a pregnant woman repeatedly in the womb

      Thrones blatantly broke both of those rules.

      And in regards to the latter, in patently-disturbing fashion.

      The murder of Robb Stark’s wolf has actually been done on the show before with another wolf from the same family. In Season 1, Ned Stark was forced to do so by the mostly-evil Lannisters after one wolf—in protecting one of Ned’s daughters–bit the cartoonish (but twisted and not-yet-King) Joffrey. So we’ll let that slide…barely (this coming from the guy who owns a Westie and DVRs The Dog Whisperer).

      On to rule #2, as some of you know, the last ten minutes of Sunday’s episode was as shocking as anything seen in television history as far as fictional drama goes (Fonzie clearing the shark in a leather jacket despite zero waterskiing experience and J.R. taking a bullet being others that come to mind). The noble and honorable Starks, Rob and his mother Catelyn, betrayed and ambushed in what became a red wedding massacre, their throats slit from ear to ear.

      But it was the brutal killing of the pregnant Telisa –Robb’s wife—by a soldier who repeatedly stabbed her in the stomach that took the feeling well beyond shock.

      Sorry HBO, that was far too brutal, far too much.

      And it wasn’t just a quick shot and cutaway of Telisa and her unborn child’s savagely violent death. Viewers got to see a wounded Robb Stark touch her bloody womb, knowing his child and wife had just been murdered, before he was given the aforementioned final sendoff.

      According to the books Game of Thrones is based on, Telisa and her unborn baby are not supposed to be slaughtered in this scene. In fact, she’s not even supposed to be there at all.

      But for HBO, nothing is ever shocking enough, no line too far to be crossed. So if it means ignoring the book, taking out a pregnant chick and doing so in a way that will depress sane viewers for the next 17 months, so be it.

      Murder a defenseless animal that doesn’t look much different from Lassie?

      I’m almost gone.

      Murder a pregnant woman by going after a baby in the womb first?

      It’s not TV, it’s HBO.

      A cable network that just lost one subscriber for good.

      http://www.mediaite.com/online/divorcing-hbo-sundays-brutal-game-of-thrones-goes-way-too-far/

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    2. Anonymous11:52 AM

      If people had read the book before watching, they would have KNOWN what was going to happen. It isn't HBO, it IS Martin. He wrote it as a fantasy version of the black dinner, when the whole Douglas clan was wiped out after dinner when visiting James II of Scotland.
      The guy who posted that missive is a moron.

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    3. Anonymous12:33 PM

      Viewers Go Ballistic Over Last Night's Unreal 'Game Of Thrones' Episode

      Warning: Major Spoilers Ahead.

      Everyone is talking about "Game of Thrones" after last night's gut-wrenching episode.

      The past few episodes have been dragging a bit. Sure, we've had our fill of Daenerys in a tub and the return of drunk Tyrion at a forced, awkward wedding, but there haven't been as many jaw-dropping moments — until last night.

      Don't read any further if you haven't watched episode nine.

      http://www.businessinsider.com/game-of-thrones-red-wedding-episode-was-amazing-2013-6

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  9. Anonymous8:17 AM

    Sen. McCain Pushes Back Against Darrell Issa’s ‘Liar’ Accusation: ‘I Never Like To Use That Word’

    After making strong statements about the Obama administration’s involvement in the IRS scandal, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has been making headlines. Sen. John McCain was asked about Issa’s “liar” accusation on CBS This Morning — and noted his aversion to using “that word.”

    The trifecta of controversies has obviously affected President Obama‘s credibility, the senator noted. He “should be thinking about how to get these issues behind him” so he can focus on the other important issues “he needs to lead on.”

    To that point, Norah O’Donnell questioned whether he’d go as far as Issa “who has accused the administration of being liars.”

    “I never like to use that word,” McCain replied. “I think that we should let these investigations take their course, let the facts come out.”

    That said, the last few hearings did reflect well on the IRS, he added. “They’re not covering themselves with distinction here,” the senator contended. “But I think these hearings are what we should rely on to a significant degree.”

    Issa had posited that IRS targeting came from Washington and labeled White House Press Secretary Jay Carney a “paid liar.”

    Watch below, via CBS:

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/sen-mccain-pushes-back-against-darrell-issas-liar-accusation-i-never-like-to-use-that-word/

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  10. Anonymous8:19 AM

    Way off topic....What the hell is wrong in Alaska? Why was this monster out if prison?
    http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/29/18577051-cops-man-who-killed-couple-raped-tot-released-early-from-prison-hours-before#comments

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    1. Anonymous9:20 AM

      I posted about this a few days ago with the same question, WTF? What kind of backwards system lets someone like this out to prey on the public and RAPE a toddler? There sure are some FUCKED UP people in the legal world in Alaska, no wonder Baldy gets away with the shit she does, the backwards mentality of law in that state is stunningly corrosive and incompetent. I wonder sometimes how people aren't up in arms about it, they seem to not care at all to let this happen.

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  11. Anonymous9:05 AM

    Issa is huffing and puffing a lot, but has yet to offer any substance to strengthen his rhetoric. Makes one wonder if he's waiting for someone to slip up on a few words that can easily be taken out of context

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  12. Anonymous9:08 AM

    Three weeks before the fire that destroyed Issa's Quantum warehouse, Issa and business partner Miles Hunsinger more than quadrupled their fire insurance (from about $100,000 to $462,000). At the same time, another business located at Quantum increased its insurance to $400,000.
    One investigator was "concerned about the coincidence."

    Witnesses at Quantum also put Issa in the building several times over the weekend that it was destroyed by arson.

    Karen Brasdovich, a Quantum bookkeeper told investigators that Issa's lawyer removed computers and records from the warehouse eight days prior to the fire. Brasdovich told reporters, "It was totally out of normal practice".

    Employees also reported that Issa "wanted equipment blueprints, normally kept in a filing cabinet, to be put in a fireproof box."

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  13. Anonymous9:10 AM

    Kudos to David, for putting that SCAMMING CLOWN in his place.

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  14. Anonymous9:56 AM

    Lindsey Graham: 'No Evidence' White House Directed IRS To Target Conservatives

    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday became the latest Republican to reject Darrell Issa's comments that White House press secretary Jay Carney is a "paid liar" in relation to the IRS controversy. But Graham went further than his Republican colleagues, saying there's no evidence that the White House ordered the tax agency to target conservative groups.

    During an interview with "Kilmeade and Friends" on Fox News Radio, Graham said Issa, a California Republican, was a key player in investigating the matter as the chairman of the House Oversight Committee. But, he conceded, "you can go too far" with personal allegations.

    "Let's not make it personal. Jay Carney is not the issue here. He's the spokesman for the White House," Graham told host Brian Kilmeade, adding that it "never helps" to resort to personal name-calling.


    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/03/lindsey-graham-irs_n_3379066.html

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  15. Anonymous9:57 AM

    Once the Kenyan Muslim Socialist is impeached
    Issa will be a great American hero
    Enjoy the summer of impeachment

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    1. Anonymous10:09 AM

      Enjoy that hashish!

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    2. Anonymous10:31 AM

      Enjoy federal prison Sarah. Got my ears to the track and that train is definitely a comin'.

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    3. Anonymous10:39 AM

      Darrell Issa’s Lies Create an Uncomfortable Scrutiny of His Criminal Background

      http://www.politicususa.com/darrell-issas-lies-create-uncomfortable-scrutiny-criminal-background.html

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  16. Anonymous10:00 AM

    Seven Ethically Challenged House Republicans Facing Investigations

    http://www.politicususa.com/ethically-challenged-house-republicans-facing-investigations.html

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  17. Anonymous10:01 AM

    Karl Rove Melts Down When Confronted With Evidence of Bush IRS Investigation

    When David Plouffe confronted Karl Rove with evidence that his Bush administration used the IRS to investigate the NAACP, Rove melted down and stammered baloney.

    Video from ABC News:

    http://www.politicususa.com/karl-rove-turns-sta-confronted-bush-irs-investigations.html

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    1. Anonymous10:56 AM

      wouldn't that be stammered ham?

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  18. Anonymous10:05 AM

    This is so funny. They're 'outraged' that no one is as OUTRAGED as they are...

    Fox’s Colmes And Pinkerton Clash Over Whether Media Have Paid Enough Attention To IRS And DOJ Scandals

    On Happening Now this afternoon, Fox’s Alan Colmes and Jim Pinkerton clashed over whether the media has sufficiently covered the scandals surrounding the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups for additional tax scrutiny and the Department of Justice’s snooping on Fox News and Associated Press reporters.

    Pinkerton made the case that the media has effectively dismissed the DOJ scandal by burying it behind less important stories; for example, he cited the New York Times‘ highlighting of the death of a novel-writing priest while relegating the Holder story to inside the paper. “The media aren’t putting the flames up on this story to force action on the part of the Obama administration or Attorney General Holder,” he asserted.

    Colmes took issue with Pinkerton’s claims, noting that both scandals have (“correctly so”) been covered a large amount by Fox News and other major news outlets. He then suggested: “The fact is that the public, rightfully or wrongfully, is not as interested in these scandals as perhaps the detractors of this administration would like them to be. I think their eyes kind of glaze over with scandal after scandal after scandal. They’re not as concerned about it.”


    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/foxs-colmes-and-pinkerton-clash-over-whether-media-have-paid-enough-attention-to-irs-and-doj-scandals/

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  19. If *I* had won that $575 million lottery you can be sure Darrell Issa's opponent in the next election would be the most well-funded campaign in the history of the country. I would spare no expense having my SuperPac take him down.

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  20. Anonymous10:41 AM

    Almost everything you hear and read in the media about the current IRS “scandal” is based on deliberate falsification of basic facts. Some might call it lying.

    Here’s a reasonably typical media-framing of the IRS lie, from the usually careful and accurate Economist, posted May 23: “Even before this month’s revelation that conservative political groups applying for 501(c)(4) status were being singled out for special scrutiny….”

    You see this false framing of the IRS story across the media spectrum, from Info wars to ABC News and NBC News to the Economist to DemocracyNOW! (The latter on May 24: “the scandal over the targeted vetting of right-wing groups…). Even the usually reliable Wonkblog at the Washington Post doesn’t get the story right, apparently because it hasn’t read the relevant law.

    An exception to this remarkable mental stampede in the wrong direction was Jeffrey Toobin (New Yorker, May 14) who wondered, “Did the I.R.S. actually do anything wrong?” His answer started to put the story in reasonable perspective, with a focus on tax law and political money: “…the scandal isn’t what’s illegal—it’s what’s legal. It’s what society chooses not to punish that tells us most about the prevailing ethical standards of the time.”

    Anatomy of a False Narrative – Lying, Laziness, Partisanship, What?

    How is it that the conventional framing is dishonest? Here are some of the ways:

    http://www.nationofchange.org/irs-scandal-hoax-1370271415

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    1. Anonymous11:01 AM

      Despite the false narrative, there are many on the right and left that continue to dislike the Tea Party even more than the IRS. I don't think this scandal is going anywhere.

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  21. Anonymous11:01 AM


    11 GOP Positions Loathed by Young People -- According to College GOP Report

    Young people have strong disagreements with Republican policies and are far more likely to support progressive positions.

    http://www.alternet.org/gop?paging=off

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  22. Anonymous11:07 AM

    Only the GOP would tap a former arsonist and car thief to chair the House Oversight Committee.

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  23. Anonymous11:19 AM

    Attorney General Eric Holder: Champion Of The People

    There are fools on the left, center, and right who have no clue what Attorney General Eric Holder does everyday. There are fools on the left, center, and right whose lives will never be affected by racism, sexism, injustice, poverty, discrimination and therefore do not understand or willfully choose not to understand why we need an Eric Holder. There are fools on the left, center, and right who call for this fighter of the downtrodden to be fired. Why are they fools? This is why.

    http://theobamadiary.com/2013/06/03/attorney-general-eric-holder-champion-of-the-people/

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  24. Beldar Ben Ghazi Conehead11:44 AM

    Yeah, Gryphen, you go right ahead but just remember this: the Honorable Rep. Darrel "Dimebag" Issa (a proud son of the little town of Douchebag, Arizona, btw) is ALL that stands between the Amercian People and the destructive conspiracies conceived, planned and executed DIRECTLY from the Oval Office!

    If you bothered to listen to the "truth tellers" on Right Wing Nut Bag talk radio, you would know about the latest egregious scandal that leads directly to your so-called President Barack Hussein Obama.

    Highly-trained and universally-respected anonymous biblical numerologi-psychic eschatologists have identified sequences of numbers in the Bible that PROVE beyond any doubt that Obama is using powerful x-class brain waves - found only in the NEGRO brain! - to divert the orbits of HUGE asteroids so they crash into predominantly tea-party addled states such as North Dakota, South Carolina, West Texas and East Mississippi. TENS OF MILLIONS of rill common sense conservative Americans will die from these asteroids - and the resulting parking space shortage - and yet libruls like you and your little blog buddies here don't even care! Even that sad sack of shit who was president before Obama never crashed asteroids into America!!! NEVER!!

    and don't forget Benghazi.

    BENGHAZI!!!!

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    1. Anonymous12:58 PM

      Ben, are you trying to steal my identity as one of our beloved founding fathers whose name Sarah Palin can't quite remember, other than as a member of "all of them"? Remember that if you find a dollar under your chair, it means that Todd Palin is stalking you to either look up your skirt (ladies) or to ask you for a date (gents). Todd is a dandy and I am not. Stay off my lawn, you people.

      Benjamin G. Ozzie Franklin

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  25. Anonymous12:03 PM

    Carney laughs off Issa attack

    http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/06/03/18726996-carney-laughs-off-issa-attack

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  26. Anonymous12:05 PM

    The transcripts Issa doesn't want to share

    We've seen this schtick before, and it's never turned out well for Issa.

    http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/06/03/18724901-the-transcripts-issa-doesnt-want-to-share?lite

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  27. Anonymous12:07 PM

    How not to connect the IRS dots

    ...You're probably already rolling your eyes -- it's the appropriate reaction -- because as conspiracy theories go, this one's awfully silly. For one thing, there's no evidence the IRS targeted conservative groups. For another, there's no reason to believe Doug Shulman had anything to do with the bureaucratic errors that created the controversy in the first place.

    http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/06/03/18723449-how-not-to-connect-the-irs-dots?lite

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  28. Anonymous1:07 PM

    Yep, they're crying wolf, I pay no attention to it anymore. I hate to get down in the gutter with them but this Republican party needs a good smack down. I'm so sick of their tactics. They have nothing to offer Americans but this bullshit.

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  29. Anonymous1:24 PM

    Don't blame Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky for the Bush debacle. because: a. He didn't win. And b. Gore was an idiot. Bill Clinton left office with record high employment and a soaring economy. Gore listened to stupid people -- notably Frum who has botched several high-profile campaigns but still acts like he knows what he's talking about -- who made him think that Clinton was a negative. He should have stood by Bill. He should have had Bill on the trail with him -- if he wanted, too. But he didn't and it just played into the narrative that Rove concocted and instead of talking about the democrats' accomplishments -- in spite of all the stupidity in Washington from the GOP -- we had nine months of jokes about Gore creating the Internet.

    2000 wasn't the fault of the impeachment. It was 100 percent the fault of Frum and Gore!

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    1. Beldar J Conehead5:21 PM

      Yep, Gore ran a regrettably poor campaign but still managed a modest popular vote victory over shrub. Rejecting Bill turned out to be a fatal error. But I say, let's blame Ralph Nader who could have done the right thing for his country and backed out before election day. That would have cinched it for Gore in Florida and spared us the 8 year catastrophe that ensued.

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  30. Anonymous1:38 PM

    Issa is an asshole and is making his Repulican party look worse and worse every day! The guy makes me sick to my stomach - he keeps saying there are issues w/President Obama when he cannot prove a damned thing! Jerk!

    He needs to be voted out of office as do the rest of the Republicans back there in Congress. They don't work - take time off constantly - make too much money that the adjust themselves (as to raises) - are liars and obstructionists. I know I'll never vote for another Republican again in my life!!!!!!!

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  31. Anonymous1:52 PM

    As to all the crap on TV today about the parties that IRS has had for their employees, training seminars, etc. I worked for a large corporation for a number of years and let me tell you, we were sent to beautiful areas for our training seminars, studied prior to the meetings, worked hard at them, but then we played at night! All the corporations do it and don't let them tell you they don't.

    Issa and his crap is pure bullshit. Vote those obstructionists out of office back there in Congress.

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  32. Anonymous6:40 PM

    Chairman Issa, what exactly did Jay Carney lie about?

    ...From Political Correction:

    [A]t a February hearing, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) hosted Western Growers Association president and CEO Tom Nassif, a major Issa donor. While introducing Nassif and purporting to provide “full disclosure,” Issa mentioned that Nassif was a “personal friend,” but not that Nassif and his organization’s political action committee had donated nearly $20,000 to Issa’s campaigns.

    Speaking of money, the NYT noted that Issa seems to occupy a unique space in Congress, in terms of “the role he has played in overseeing a remarkable array of outside business interests since his election in 2000.”

    So, money makes the Issa go around?

    Oh, and there’s also this from ThinkProgress:

    http://americablog.com/2013/06/darrell-issa-jay-carney-paid-liar-irs-tea-party.html

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  33. Issa's a piece of work who is over due for an indictment somewhere.

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  34. Anita Winecooler8:14 PM

    I was waiting for one of them to go too far, and I'm so pleased it's Darryl Issa who took the bait. This has been hashed and rehashed on all the political shows and sites. Even the odd couple, Senator Maverick McCain and his girlfriend Lindsey Graham Cracker agreed to get in front of Issa's "Liar" accusation.

    Sorry, Fellas, when the leader of the witchhunt yells "liar", all bets are off.

    There is no "There" there.

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