Darrell Issa
Another jackass has joined the sickening parade of well-tailored if pitifully coiffed riffraff spouting lies about President Obama's place of birth or giving these lies winks and nods.
This time it's Darrell Issa (CA-49), the guy with the highly suspicious past who now has subpoena power as chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He suggested on Foxaganda's Don Imus in the Morning show that Donald Trump "may or may not be right" about Obama's birth certificate. In case you've been away from your television and computer for a while, Trump has taken over the birther franchise and has been spewing this racist claptrap for a couple of weeks as part of his supposed testing of the waters for a presidential run. Instead of flattening The Donald's rancid lies, or at least guffawing the interview to a close when he repeats them, most reporters have offered him respect and gone on to the next question.
Issa enabled the lie Tuesday:
DON IMUS: Digressing here, um, there's a lot of talk, unfortunately, about Donald Trump raising — not about him — but about him raising this birth certificate issue, which is — what's your view on that?
ISSA: You know, the man is president. If Donald Trump wants to go back, that's fine, that's his decision. He may or may not be right. Most of us think that it's not an issue and that he's unlikely to prove that he wasn't born in America. What we do care about is, that we don't think that President Obama is good for America, and we'd like to see him not get a second term. And we'd like to have a debate about what President Obama did wrong in these first two years and he's still doing wrong in many cases.
May or may not? In other words, Issa is implying that Trump's insinuations might be true: that Obama is the other, that he's lying about being an American, that it was a plot from the beginning, that he must have some secret agenda allied with some probably Muslim nation. But, even if it's true, Issa goes on, it's irrelevant because Trump probably can't prove it. Better to defeat Obama some other way.
Issa isn't, of course, the only knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, spittle-foaming, dog-whistling, bottom-feeding birther in Congress. There are a bunch of them. And yet, according to the etiquette manuals, the proper form of address to be used in front of each of their names if you should write a letter to them is "The Honorable" instead of "Vile Reprobate." It's unfortunate that asbestos stationery is not permitted. Because that's the only kind that can handle the language that ought to be used in any letter to Issa and his birther compatriots.