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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-pitchOuch!
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.’†“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.†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.†“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€
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.†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.†“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.†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.†“The question is, what do the American people know about me and when did they know it?†he said. www.borowitzreport.com
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.
And the jug-eared muslim's brother lives in a refrigerator crate on the Nairobi dump.
Joseph Curl @josephcurlHearing from some top Hill sources that IRS scandal about to explode. Low-level agency workers miffed at being blamed. About to return fire.
Joseph Curl @josephcurlOne 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.'
"The nation that couldn’t be conquered by foreign enemies has been conquered by its elected officials" odawg Free Republic in reference to the GOP Elites who are no difference than the Democrats
'Mr. Grand Theft Auto' gets a brush-back pitch
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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