Issa; "The people deserve to know if their tax dollars are being used for political activity"
My head just exploded!
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/212418-issa-white-house-subpoena-storm-intensifies
"Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said administration claims that White House political director David Simas was immune from testimony were “absurd” and “deeply disturbing.”
Issa has not produced evidence of a specific instance of the White House violating the law and has pointed to abuses in the office that occurred under the Bush Administration to justify the subpoena."
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I think the American people are well aware of who is wasting their money on political activity, and it isn't this White House.
How this guys brain doesn't cause his hand to reach up his a$$ and pull out his entrails when he says something like this is amazing.
"The Fox and the Grapes" A classic illustration of cognitive dissonance is expressed in the fable "The Fox and the Grapes" by Aesop (ca. 620–564 BCE). In the story, a fox sees some high-hanging grapes and wishes to eat them. When the fox is unable to think of a way to reach them, he decides that the grapes are probably not worth eating, with the justification the grapes probably are not ripe or that they are sour (hence the common phrase "sour grapes"
. The moral that accompanies the story is "Any fool can despise what he can not get". This example follows a pattern: one desires something, finds it unattainable, and reduces one's dissonance by criticizing it. Jon Elster calls this pattern "adaptive preference formation
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