Although I was only eight years old when Dwight Eisenhower finished his second term in office, I remember he had a leadership style much stronger than Barack Obama's as President. Also, even though I voted for the Iraq War and continued its funding, President Obama is putting the U.S. more at risk. Eisenhower would NEVER do that!
Just when you thought the GOP would never cite Dwight Eisenhower and instead turn to Ronald Reagan for inspiration, Darrell Issa is crediting Eisenhower and apparently why we need him more than ever than President Obama.
Charming.
http://www.publicopiniononline.com/...
Dwight Eisenhower is a president we need now more than ever, according to Rep. Darrel Issa, R-Calif.
Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, spoke Wednesday to about 275 people, the largest attendance ever for the the Franklin County Republican Party's Eisenhower Day Dinner. The greeted him with a standing ovation, and saw him off with another.
"Dwight made it look easy to administer a large government," Issa said. "He led because he had the ability to bring people together. Ike knew how to get the most out of every general."
He contrasted Eisenhower's leadership style with that of President Obama, without mentioning the current president by name.
Just one problem with Issa's perspective: While President Eisenhower was a uniter, he also not exactly a friend of conservatives or the far right which Darrell Issa himself is a friend of:
http://www.newrepublic.com/...
Eisenhower governed as a moderate Republican. While he failed to take bold action against Southern segregation as Democratic liberals and Republican progressives urged him to do, he helped to cool the overheated partisan rhetoric of the preceding two decades and built a middle-of-the-road consensus that marginalized extremists of left and right. He was well aware that his moderation earned him the implacable enmity of GOP conservatives. As he put it, “There is a certain reactionary fringe of the Republican Party that hates and despises everything for which I stand.” But this did not greatly bother him, since he also believed that “their number is negligible and they are stupid.”
The conservative movement’s tablet-keepers have long memories, so it’s unsurprising that Ike has remained a devil figure for the right. What may seem more surprising is that at a moment when Republicans are posing as stalwart defenders of a balanced federal budget, they dismiss the example of the most fiscally conservative president of the past eighty years. Eisenhower balanced the budget three times in his eight years in office, a feat that neither Ronald Reagan nor George W. Bush came close to achieving. Ike cut federal civilian employment by 274,000 and reduced the ratio of the national debt to GNP, though not the absolute level of debt. The economy bloomed under his watch, with high growth, low inflation, and low unemployment.
Now Issa goes beyond Eisenhower and now believes Obama is selling out the U.S. to enemies:
http://www.publicopiniononline.com/...
Obama is "selling out our country to those who are not our friends," Issa said. Egypt and Israel can no longer count on us. "We in America do not want war. We can't afford to abandon our allies."
Issa said that his own legacy may be settling in the courts whether "an imperial president can stonewall a congressional subpoena." Issa's committee has asked the executive branch for correspondence related to "fast & furious," a government program of selling guns to Mexican criminal organizations in hopes of tracing them to drug cartels. The president invoked executive privilege with the claim that Constitution does not grant Congress the ability to subpoena such information from the executive branch.
"One thing you deserve to know is that there is a balance in our system," Issa told the gathering.
Ahhh, here's a GREAT statement from Issa:
"We in America do not want war. We can't afford to abandon our allies.""
Yet Issa voted for Iraq War funding and rubber stamping it to the nth degree which in turn burned out a lot of the surplus and gave the U.S. a good chuck of the debt we have today.
Do you understand this Issa man? *face palm* I sure as hell don't.
Can't stand anymore of Darrell Issa?
Here's the voter registration as of February 2013 by the actual CA-49 Congressional District, which combines parts of San Diego and Orange County. Note the number of Decline-to-State/Independents:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/...
Orange County:
Democrats: 22,239
Republicans: 44,833
Decline-to-State/Independent: 19,077
San Diego County:
Democrats: 84,282
Republicans: 107,221
Decline-to-State/Independent: 70,938
Total:
Democrats: 106,521
Republicans: 152,054
Decline-to-State/Independent: 90,015
If you live in or near CA-49 and want a reason to start voter registration drives or take part in them, note that San Diego County Democratic Party has a calendar that keeps track of all activity going on, whether local Democratic club meetings or voter registration drive events:
http://www.sddemocrats.org/...
Darrell Issa has a Democratic challenger in 2014, at least one so far. His name is Dave Peiser and here is his information.
Dave Peiser for Congress: http://www.peiserforcongress.com/
Donate: https://secure.actblue.com/...
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/...
Information: info@peiserforcongress.com
Start firing up the base in CA-49!