DARRELL ISSA: THE LOATHSOME REPUBLICAN….SEE NOTE PLEASE
THE ONLY GOOD THING THAT ISSA EVER DID WAS TO DEMAND A PROBE INTO OBAMA’S ILLEGAL FIRING OF INSPECTOR GENERAL GERALD WALPIN. PLEASE READ:
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Jihad Darrell, Hezbo’s Fave GOP Congressman: 9/11 “Simply” a Plane Crash
By Debbie Schlussel
I’ve been on the case of gazillionaire GOP Congressman Darrell Issa a/k/a “Jihad Darrell”, since just after 9/11, when he praised Hezbollah as a “humanitarian” group of “farmers” and went to Ramallah to become Yasser Arafat’s personal taste tester (not kidding). Since then, Issa’s continued to fete the Assads of Syria, the Hezbos of Lebanon, the Fatah-niks of the so-called Palestinian authority, and has called Israel an “apartheid” state a la Jimmy “Jimmuh” Carter. Nancy Pelosi’s got nothin’ on Jihad Darrell.
That’s not to mention Issa’s lengthy criminal and marred military record, and the sickening way Issa stole a company out from under his boss and went on to make millions by stealing patents and litigating everyone out of business.
By NEIL KING JR.
Detractors portray him as a Republican pit bull-in-waiting who will lunge for the Democrats’ jugular if his party wins the House in next month’s election.
Associated PressRep. Darrell Issa, in his Capitol Hill office in September, says he would be less obstructionist if the president would work with Republicans.
Rep. Darrell Issa wants to bury that notion. He said he won’t pepper the Obama White House with subpoenas and showboat hearings if he becomes chairman of the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform. “That’s not my plan at all,” the California Republican said in an interview.
While fellow Republicans promise efforts to repeal the Democrats’ health-care overhaul and block funds to undermine the Obama agenda, Mr. Issa talks cooperation. And cooperation, in particular, with President Barack Obama.
“I can continue to be the annoyer in chief if the White House doesn’t want to work with us,” he said. “But if they do, we have a real opportunity to get some things done.”
Mr. Issa has used his position as the oversight panel’s ranking minority member to challenge the administration on an array of topics. Democrats cite him to stir their voters against the idea of a House GOP takeover.
Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, who ranks third under House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said last month Republicans on the Oversight Committee will try “to delegitimize this president.” Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, warned of “wackos” taking over Congress and issuing “subpoena after subpoena.”
He also wants to overhaul how the federal government purchases and contracts for its information technology.
Mr. Issa, who made a fortune selling car alarms before running for Congress in 2000, conceded he has no desire to aid the Obama presidency. But like other top House Republicans, he is acutely aware that the party, if it wins control, would need to quickly demonstrate to voters it can offer concrete accomplishments, not just obstruction.
“We have to move the needle in the other direction or we won’t get any credit,” he said. “If all we do is stop everything, and the government comes to a halt, voters won’t be happy with us, either.”
Mr. Issa’s counter-example is the Republican-led oversight committee of the late 1990s that spent years and millions of dollars going after the Clinton administration, showering it with more than 1,000 subpoenas.
Retiring Rep. David Obey, a veteran Democrat, said lawmakers shouldn’t be taken in by Mr. Issa’s professions. Mr. Obey called the Republican “very bright, very smooth,” but added: “Darrell Issa is an incredibly ruthless and amoral politician. He will swing at anything or anybody and doesn’t give a damn who he hurts.”
The White House appears apprehensive. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a longtime Issa friend and fellow Republican, said several White House officials have asked him what an Issa-led committee might mean for the administration.
“And I have told them that Darrell Issa will be fair, and I really believe that,” Mr. LaHood said.
Mr. Issa has had his share of brawls with the Obama administration over the past 20 months. He accused the White House of trying to manage the 2010 Census for political gain. He criticized the administration for its handling of the bailout of General Motors Co. and Chrysler LLC. He asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to examine allegations the White House improperly offered a job to Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak to get him to withdraw from the Pennsylvania Senate primary.
Mr. Issa said he still wants to look at the administration’s practice of offering jobs for political reasons, before adding: “But I want to take this on retrospectively, not with recrimination.”
—Jonathan Weisman contributed to this article.
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