U.S. Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA), incoming chairman of the House Government Oversight Committee, is hitting the ground running with promises of investigations and probes in the Obama administration to look into charges of corruption that have been made by . . . Darrell Issa! The congressman has charged that President Obama has given federal stimulus money to special interest groups for political purposes and tried to bribe Joe Sestak into dropping his opposition to Arlen Specter in the U.S. Senate primary election in Pennsylvania. Where there's smoke, there's fire, but the smoke in this case is coming entirely out of Issa's ears.
No matter. If Issa holds as many hearings as and issues as many subpoenas as he's threatened to do, he may not find any evidence of scandal, but he will certainly hamper Obama's efforts to get anything done in advance of the 2012 presidential elections. Issa's Inspector Javert act has succeeded in unseating one elected official, California governor Gray Davis; it was Issa who spearheaded the successful 2003 recall of Davis. Obama will have allies on the House Government Oversight Committee - namely ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings of Maryland - to challenge Issa's accusations, but Issa will, as chairman, still have the final say on the committee's agenda. My advice to President Obama is to cooperate as much with the House Government Oversight Committee as possible - it's highly unlikely that they have anything to hide - and stonewall Issa's sillier questions. No one should give Issa any room to cast himself as a champion of the people in the pursuit of justice. Because the media are gullible enough to fall for that.
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Late word from Washington is that Issa won't be focusing on the Sestak issue, or a similar accustaion regarding Colorado U.S. Seante candidate Andrew Romanoff - for now. He is, however, asking big business which burdensome (for them) regulations they want looked into. :-O
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