Darrell Issa: 'Not Funding The Government Is Part Of Funding It'

[TomCADem]

Source: CNN

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and CNN's "New Day" co-host Chris Cuomo got into a heated exchange Tuesday over the government shutdown, with Issa arguing that Congress has the "right" to not fund the federal government.

Issa told Cuomo that House Republicans are looking to compromise on a temporary spending bill, and said that if the Senate rejects the House's offer to go to conference Tuesday morning the move would be tantamount to "rejecting the constitutional process."

"You want to use the phrase constitutional mandate. I applaud you for using it," Cuomo said. "However, the mandate is for you to fund the government. Not for you to not fund the government. That's a decision you made here and you made it for the political reasons that you lay out."

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"You can't accuse me of beating my wife and then turn around and tell me, isn't that true? We did not shut down the government," Issa responded. "We offered to the Senate, again and again, things to keep the government fully funded. We have said we want to go to conference. We want to have a discussion about the delay of portions of Obamacare for a short period of time in order to get it right."


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Here is Darrell Issa exploding at a host who dares suggest that Republicans bare responsibility for the shutdown.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Where did that random 'beating my wife' outburst come from?

Something you want to tell us Issa?

[kardonb]

24. where ....

deja vue ? These folks are Orwellian !

[wordpix]

30. "and then turn around and tell me, isn't that true?" WTF? Does not make any sense

Nice to know he's in a leadership position in Congress b/c he's so brilliant

And I would not doubt he DOES beat his wife, too

[unhappycamper]

2. .

[Ineeda]

3. Despicable that

those who scream the loudest that the 'government' is unnecessary and evil are the ones who fight the hardest and dirtiest to stay a part of the unnecessary and evil 'government.' I get dizzy with it all.

[MythosMaster]

4. 2+2=5

[DetlefK]

5. I repeatedly offered you a way to leave this robbery unharmed.

[Qutzupalotl]

6. Throw that one on the Up Is Down pile.

[meow2u3]

7. Tea Party logic: Not taking a shower is part of taking a shower

And letting dishes pile up is part of washing dishes.

[durablend]

8. Ah, so in stealing a car, you're not REALLY stealing it

Got it!

[6000eliot]

9. See, so not doing your job is really DOING your job.

Being an incompetent partisan boob is NOT being an incompetent partisan boob. We get it now, car thief.

[Lobo27]

10. I don't hate anyone, but I make the exception for you, Issa.

Go to hell you POS.

[homegirl]

20. Dollars for Democracy

The last time Mr. Issa ran for his seat in Congress his Democratic opponent had a campaign fund of less than $7K! Mr. Issa's campaign fund exceeded $1M! What is wrong with the California Democratic Party and the DCC that they couldn't throw a million to the Democratic candidate. Mr. Issa should be targeted for retirement next year.

[FailureToCommunicate]

11. 'It became necessary to destroy the town to save it'

When will Republicans (and some others in Congress) ever learn?

[rtracey]

12. Issa....

You being a dick is part of you being a dickhead.

[Laelth]

13. Lies, lies, and more lies.

I know; I know. A Republican is speaking, and I should expect lies, but these particular lies are little more than a steaming pile of ...

Well, you know.

-Laelth

[Iliyah]

14. For crying out loud, STFU already Issa

you are an embarrassment to California.

[L0oniX]

15. ...and not paying my credit card bills is part of making the payments.

[pandr32]

16. The Senate wanted to go to conference

...long before we got to this critical point. I read that while the House teapublican majority "symbolically" voted to repeal Obamacare over 40 times (on taxpayer's dime), instead of working to get things done and get a budget passed, the Senate tried 18 times to get them into conference in order to work something out. They were snubbed. Now all of a sudden (after the point of government shut-down) it is what House teapublicans want. They are stranded on a brittle tree-limb now and are looking for a face-saving way to get off before it breaks--smashing them into the ground along with the economy that they are tightly clutching and the reputation of America in the World.

[kairos12]

22. Excellent post, welcome to DU

[arcane1]

26. That explains their Senate Must Act hashtag.

What they are really saying is "Senate, bail us out of our own mess!"

[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. Ouch. Schooled by famous constitutional scholar -slash- car thief Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Chopshop)

[wordpix]

31. you forgot slash/arsonist

http://www.calbuzz.com/2013/07/why-isnt-darrell-issa-in-jail/

In January, 1981, at an intersection in Cleveland, Issa crashed a truck into a 1959 Thunderbird Classic driven by Juanita Martin, 44. According to court documents, Issa told her that he did not have time to wait for the police and left the scene. Martin ended up in the emergency room the next day with neck and back pain that she said caused “permanent damage.” A month later, she sued Issa for $20,000; they settled for an undisclosed amount.

Arson_t607– At about 2:30 am, September 7, 1982, Issa’s Quantum and Steal Stopper office went up in flames. A fire-analysis report commissioned by the St. Paul insurance company, and dated October 19, 1982, a month after the incident, concluded that the fire was “incendiary.” The report cited “suspicious burn patterns,” such as “two separate major areas of origin,” and it said, “No accidental source of heating power was located at either of these two major areas of origin.” The manner in which stacks of cardboard boxes burned was inconsistent with an accidental fire. A flammable liquid appeared to have been poured over the boxes. The blue flames seen emanating from the roof were evidence, according to the investigators, of burning carbon monoxide that is produced when an accelerant like gasoline ignites. The black smoke was also a clue. “Such black smoke normally occurs in a fire only when a hydrocarbon is burning,” the report said. When investigators tested burn damage from inside the factory, they found “the same identical mixture of flammable hydrocarbons” in four samples taken from diverse locations.

On Sept 20, 1982, in an interview with an insurance investigator, Joey Adkins, the former owner of Steal Stopper, said Issa had removed the company’s Apple II computer from the building, including “all hardware, all software, all the instruction books,” and also “the discs for accounts payable, accounts receivable, customer list, everything.” According to Adkins, Issa also transferred a copy of every design used by Steal Stopper from a filing cabinet to a fireproof box. He also said that Issa put in the box some important silk screens used in the production of circuit boards. Insurance officials noted that, less than three weeks before the fire, Issa had increased his insurance from a hundred thousand dollars to four hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars. “Quite frankly,” Adkins told the investigator, “I feel the man set the fire.”

The Ohio state fire marshal never determined the cause of the fire and no one was ever charged with a crime. According to Issa, St. Paul paid Quantum twenty-five thousand dollars, but refused to pay his claim for the Steal Stopper inventory. Issa sued St. Paul for a hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, and the two parties eventually settled out of court for about twenty thousand dollars.

(Ours is a measured compilation. For a more colorful rendition, check here.) So the next time you see Rep. Darrell Issa on “Meet the Press” or Fox News or any other national media outlet, you might wonder in a quiet moment, “Why is this man not in jail?”

[Plucketeer]

18. Issa: "We offered to the Senate, again and again, things to keep the government fully funded."

"Oh, did I forget to mention the blackmail part???"

Issa not having a brain is really just part of being Issa.

[Cryptoad]

19. Time for President Obama

to get out that Executive Order Pen and make sure it has plenty of ink!

[chelsea0011]

21. Well then how about you start by writing up an amendment where you take a 50% pay cut

and pay 100% for your gold standard health insurance?

[The Wizard]

23. When ever I see his smug visage

either the channel changes or the sound goes off. He can't tell the truth, it's in his DNA like all Republicans.

[blkmusclmachine]

25. In other words: America, meet bathtub.

[struggle4progress]

27. bwaaahaaha!

[questionseverything]

28. any1 remember carol lam?

she was prosecuting repubs and cia dudes on the west coast when bush fired her...issa was being investigated by her also,he played cards with the defense contracts,,,when she was fired that investigation went away

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2007/03/19/11209/carol-lam-white-house/

[xfundy]

29. car thief, Car Thief, CAR THIEF.

Only among repugs could a criminal get into the ruling class.

This asshole needs to go to jail along with the rest of the traitors.

[wordpix]

32. arsonist and insurance fraudster, too