COWARD: Darrell Issa Abruptly Ends Hearing Before Witness Can Debunk His White House Attacks

[kpete]

Darrell Issa Abruptly Ends Hearing Before Witness Can Debunk His White House Attacks

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So what happened?

A Cummings aide said he had no warning the hearing would be cut off before anyone could testify, and said there was no reason for doing so.

A request for comment from Issa's office was not returned.

But two things were apparent to those following the hearing: First, Issa began the hearing irritated that the White House had dismissed his subpoena to compel Obama's political office director, David Simas, to testify. He called it "deeply disturbing" that White House counsel Neil Eggleston said Simas was immune from a congressional subpoena. Second, and perhaps more tellingly, Issa may have wanted to prevent Lerner from testifying since, based on the written testimony she provided ahead of the hearing, she was planning to say the White House Office of Political Strategy and Outreach had done nothing inappropriate, which contradicted Issa's claims leading up to the hearing.

Lerner's shop is charged with enforcing the federal Hatch Act's prohibitions against federal employees engaging in political activity, which makes her the go-to person in the event of allegations of wrongdoing by the White House political office. She was prepared to tell the committee she did her homework and found nothing wrong.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/16/darrell-issa-hearing_n_5592009.html

[randys1]

1. I cant say what I want to say, will get in trouble...

[Ineeda]

14. Is it something like...

"Hey Issa -- eat shit and die"?? If so, I'm good with it.

[randys1]

15. I used the five letter word starting with F that had a post hidden on me so I have to be

careful

started with F and ended with H

5 letters

[ChisolmTrailDem]

2. A loser again. Issa has always been, and will always be, a LOSER. nt

[gratuitous]

3. Crybaby Issa loses another round

It's a mystery to me why the popular media lend any credence at all to this clown. I don't think Issa has forgotten how the Bush administration told Congress to go piss up a rope time and again when Congress was exercising some legitimate oversight on alleged crimes against humanity. The Bush administration invoked "executive privilege" for practically anything it didn't want to discuss with Congress.

Now, several years later, Issa is apparently confounded that the Obama administration doesn't want to play the windmill for his endless tilting. Perhaps he's counting on the public forgetting the Bush administration (fat chance) or that the popular media will fall for his posturing (which they've done over and over). I admire Rep. Cummings, though. I long ago would have throat-punched the little fucker for his pettifogging ways.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Asking why the media fall for Republican and corporate lies and distortions is like

asking why Pravda kept printing the Kremlin's propaganda. The answer is so simple--They're just doing their job.

[bluesbassman]

4. I'm not the brightest bulb in the fixture...

But even I know what an abhorrent, self aggrandizing, worthless piece of over chewed gum stuck under the desk Issa is. What perplexes me the most however is why Dems and the press (well I have a vague idea abut the "press&quot aren't hammering this waste of oxygen into the ground like a railroad spike. Issa is the very definition of a rogue operative, and that he carries on with absolute impunity is an indictment of how dysfunctional system has become.

I won't say I hate Issa because he doesn't deserve that much emotion. I do however loathe him immensely.

[heaven05]

5. loathe, immensely

yep, yep that about says it all.

[Bluzmann57]

6. Ok maybe I'll get in trouble for saying this

But I'll say it anyway. Issa, go fuck yourself. That is all.
on edit- Wait, I have one more thing to add. Quit wasting my and everyone else's money on all this nonsense.

[Botany]

7. How much are these hearings costing?

Issa is a car thief, an arsonist, and a coward.

[gademocrat7]

8. Yes, indeed!

[onecaliberal]

10. I would like Mr Issa,

Arguably the largest waste of oxygen in Congress to return all tax money he has wasted on worthless show hearings. He should either do what he was elected to do or get the hell out of Congress.

[bvf]

19. Sadly, this is exactly what a lot of his constituents no doubt elected him to do.

And they're cheering him on, and he knows it. I don't have the intestinal fortitude to visit (or even Google for) any intertube places where they actually do this, but I also have no doubt one could find plenty.

Knuckle-dragging booger-eaters would rather see their tax money thrown down the toilet than used for anything purposeful. Because--you know--president with a strange name and a different skin color. Really depressing, but that's America these days.

We're headed for Idiocracy if people don't wake up and throw these guys out.

[onecaliberal]

20. You are so right

The mansion with the car garage in Californua is located in That district. So exactly as you explained. Pendleton is also located in that District.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. It's what does best -- throw a rock at the big kids, then run like hell when they turn around.

Well, Darrell, we'll always have Benghazi, won't we?

[Ineeda]

13. Isn't this the second time

Issa has done the exact same thing to Cummings? I didn't read the linked article, (sorry, time constraints) but I recall Issa shutting it down -- actually shutting off Cumming's mike to prevent debate during a committee meeting. Maybe 6 months ago? Isn't there a way to shut HIM down from these unAmerican tactics?

[SunSeeker]

30. Yup. Cutting off a mic is his thing.

Because he can't handle the truth.

[WillyT]

16. K & R !!!

[CTyankee]

17. darrell the quitter!

[Blue Idaho]

18. Kangaroo Court

Bet he's got a photo of Roland Freisler on his wall at home.

[NastyRiffraff]

21. I'm surprised he let Elijah Cummings read his statement

He has, after all, a history of cutting Cummings off at hearings.

Issa is a waste of innocent molecules.

[Zambero]

22. Aren't Congressional hearings intended to gather facts?

Ooops, my mistake! So lest imminent testimony prove embarrassing, their new purpose would be to preclude the disclosure of information that might run contrary to the political agenda that is being but forth by the committee chairman and his party.

[aquart]

23. Issa can dish it out but he can't take it.

[tanyev]

24. Issa was the kid who always took his ball and went home, wasn't he?

[awoke_in_2003]

31. Judging by his past...

he was the kid who took someone else's ball and went home.

[UTUSN]

34. Bwah-HAH!1 In somebody else's CAR!1 n/t

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[awoke_in_2003]

35. Yes sir..

[Iwillnevergiveup]

25. Living close enough to Issa's District 49,

I truly appreciate and agree with all the venom directed at him in this thread. I've posted stuff in the CA group about Dave Peiser, who's challenging Issa, and have said Issa should at the top of the list to be drummed out of the House. He's the worst of the worst no matter where you live.

PLEASE send Dave a few bucks. Cantor is gone, Issa should be next.

http://www.peiserforcongress.com/darrell_issa_out_of_touch_on_immigration_reform_and_dream_act

[nikto]

26. Issa repsents the HEART AND SOUL of the GOP

He is the living embodiment of their "values".



Know them by their smell.

[janlyn]

27. Why,why why,

is ANYONE in the press or in Washington taking this ASS CLOWN seriously!! Talk about shades of McCarthy!! So why is no one publicly calling him out on his bullshit?

[IkeRepublican]

29. The late Lee Atwater once stated...

"The media can only chew on one leg at a time. That's a huge advantage."

I quote Atwater because the way to castrate an enemy is to know the enemy.

[aggiesal]

28. Issa spelled backwards is ASS-I n/t

[George II]

32. Is Issa SO inept that he needed his assistant to give him those pages one at a time to read....

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...did they think he'd get them mixed up and look like the idiot he is?

[TNNurse]

33. I just read

He learned that the Reagan administration made a ruling that Congress could not force a prosecutor to bring charges and he was unaware of this. He really isn't very smart and does not prepare for his hearings.

And he is wasting out money by being unqualified.