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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Delmar on June 03, 2013, 09:09:15 PM
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Three Greatest Threads about Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Darrell Issa on the Dump home page right now.
The DUmmies--which includes David Plouffe and Bobby Gibbs--must've decided that it is time to panic.
Judging by the anxiety level, you'd think that Holder is going to be indicted within the next 24 business hours.
Mon Jun 3, 2013, 08:52 AM
ProSense (98,660 posts)
Plouffe smacks down "Mr. Grand Theft Auto" Issa
'Mr. Grand Theft Auto' gets a brush-back pitch
By Steve Benen
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), no doubt frustrated his efforts to manufacture White House scandals have faltered, started to lose his composure on CNN yesterday. Perhaps more interesting was the response from a close ally to President Obama.
After lashing out at White House Press Secretary Jay Carney as a "paid liar" -- an attack seemingly based on nothing -- the California Republican argued without proof that top Obama administration officials were responsible for the IRS controversy. Under scrutiny, however, Issa's argument quickly crumbled, relying on out-of-context quotes.
It was, however, this reaction from David Plouffe that caught my eye. In President Obama's inner circle, few are as influential as Plouffe, who ran the Obama campaign in 2008 and served as a White House Senior Adviser to the president up until late January of this year. So when he's calling the chairman on the House Oversight Committee "Mr. Grand Theft Auto" and a "suspected arsonist/insurance swindler," it reflects a striking escalation.
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."
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/06/03/18720608-mr-grand-theft-auto-gets-a-brush-back-pitch
Ouch!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022939011
Mon Jun 3, 2013, 09:38 AM
kpete (38,983 posts)
Robert Gibbs: Darrell Issa made himself ‘the biggest joke in all of Washington’
Source: Raw Story
“Darrell Issa should call Jay Carney and apologize this morning,†Gibbs told MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Monday. “He’s laying out the charge and then saying it might be true. And then he’s saying, ‘As the investigator, I know where I want to get, now I’m just getting around to proving it.’â€
“I mean, it’s a stunning thing. It’s why five people in this town take Darrell Issa seriously. And it’s the surest bet that the Republicans are very much on the verge of overplaying their hand publicly and that the American people will lose interest in their side of this,†he added. “To throw around the words liar and perjury as easily as he did is shameful. And if he’s got information that these people lied, he should put it out there today.â€
Co-host Mika Brzezinski pointed out that “Darrell Issa just kind of took it down to a level that makes us all just want to walk away and ignore it.â€
“It shows how unserious he is about investigating anything,†Gibbs agreed. “The notion that he’s in charge of — quote — Government Oversight might now be the biggest joke in all of Washington.â€
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014499162
Mon Jun 3, 2013, 11:31 AM
Mira (15,383 posts)
Borowitz tells it first: Issa Demands Hearings Into Why No One Listens to Him
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California) today called for hearings to investigate why no one has paid any attention to him in the weeks of hearings he has called for thus far.
“There is mounting evidence that no one listens to me, not even one little bit,†he told reporters on Capitol Hill. “The goal of these hearings is to find out why.â€
He said that he first became aware that people might not be listening to him when he read a recent poll indicating that Americans’ primary concerns are jobs and the economy.
“Anyone in his right mind would know that this nation’s No. 1 problem right now is Benghazi talking points,†he said.
The California congressman said that he also intended “to investigate the chain of events that have led to people changing the channel the moment they see my face.â€
“There is a consensus out there that I am an odious, self-serving tool who uses congressional hearings to advance my own petty political agenda,†he said. “I think it’s important to know who created that impression.â€
Finally, Mr. Issa said, he hoped that the new hearings would “determine, once and for all, to what extent my moral authority has been undermined by allegations that I have been involved in car theft and arson.â€
“The question is, what do the American people know about me and when did they know it?†he said.
www.borowitzreport.com
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022939619
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Unlike Issa's rhetorical jabs, Plouffe's brush-back pitch at least has the benefit of accuracy.
Bullshit, DUmmies. The charges were dropped. Issa's brother was later arrested for car theft, not him.
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These attacks on Issa must mean that Obama is up to his neck and dirty in one or more of the current scandals. The left is following Alinsky's Rules again, or still.
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Plouffe out on the Sunday circuit again? They send him out when the heat gets too close to the White House. As far as Carney being a paid liar, Issa is correct.
What Plouffe doesn't know (or maybe he does) is the depositions of the Ohio IRS scapegoats that pretty much said they got their marching orders to target conservatives from Washington DC.
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If I were in WDC, I would have been saying the truth and attacking since February 2007. I don't understand the timidness of the republicans other than they are just shadows of the donks.
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Bullshit, DUmmies. The charges were dropped. Issa's brother was later arrested for car theft, not him.
And the jug-eared muslim's brother lives in a refrigerator crate on the Nairobi dump.
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And the jug-eared muslim's brother lives in a refrigerator crate on the Nairobi dump.
The other one is running a scam 501c organization that was fast tracked by the IRS for approval.
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http://twitchy.com/2013/06/03/drudge-editor-joseph-curl-hearing-from-some-top-hill-sources-that-irs-scandal-about-to-explode/
Drudge editor Joseph Curl: ‘Hearing from some top Hill sources that IRS scandal about to explode’
Joseph Curl @josephcurl
Hearing from some top Hill sources that IRS scandal about to explode. Low-level agency workers miffed at being blamed. About to return fire.
According to Drudge editor and Washington Times columnist Joseph Curl, the IRS scandal is far from over. He says some of his top Hill sources told him that low-level agency workers aren’t happy about being blamed for misconduct and are about to “return fire†at higher-ups in Washington DC.
Moreover, one of Curl’s sources says there is a “paper trail to DC.†Not all the way to the White House, but “high†up.
Joseph Curl @josephcurl
One source says there's a paper trail to DC, and some who were worried from the get-go kept a paper trail. Wouldn't say WH, but said 'high.'
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'Mr. Grand Theft Auto' gets a brush-back pitch
And Conservatives everywhere proptly hit that pitch out of the park.
jimgeraghty @jimgeraghty
For perspective, here's what Plouffe's most famous client was doing when the charge against Issa was dropped: pic.twitter.com/mLJMGNy5im
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BL1RBnrCUAErnim.jpg)
JWF @JammieWF
@davidplouffe Strong accusations from a guy defending the IRS thugs
12:49 AM - 3 Jun 2013
Michelle McCormick @TexMex817
What does Plouffe know of ethics? RT @politico .@davidplouffe questions Darrell Issa’s ethics: http://politi.co/130caZk â€
Michael Graham @IAMMGraham
Issa: "White House is lying about IRS right now"
WH: "Oh, yeah? Well you got arrested 40 years ago! So there!"
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/02/irs-controversy-turns-personal-nasty/ …
Right Scoop @trscoop
Issa calling Jay Carney the "administration's paid liar" apparently struck a nerve with David Plouffe http://j.mp/ZF6k2L
Michelle McCormick @TexMex817
This IRS scandal is so bad for Team Obama that its Hatchet Men Plouffe & Axlerod will start pulling out late library fees of Issa's mother
JWF @JammieWF
@jimgeraghty Actually the original charge against Issa dates to 1972. But Benghazi happened a long time ago http://www.jammiewf.com/?p=28517
http://twitchy.com/2013/06/03/choom-boom-geraghty-destroys-plouffes-nasty-issa-smearing-tweet-with-one-photo/
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One source says there's a paper trail to DC, and some who were worried from the get-go kept a paper trail. Wouldn't say WH, but said 'high.'
Valerie Jarrett
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Always remember Admit nothing, deny everything, and make counter accusations. :-)
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Valerie Jarrett
Think so?