Darth Vader: You have a report?
Darth Issa: Everything is in order Lord Vader. I have managed to prevent President Obama from achieving as much as he wanted to and now I'm expecting the same will happen in his second term.
A new article is posted in the Washington City Paper covering Darth Vader Issa in what appears to be a positive assessment of Issa's tenture as Chairman of House Oversight & Government Reform Committee.
Just one problem: The DC officials have become part of the Rebel Alliance where they
are seduced by the power of Darth Issa's force.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/...
Their supplications quickly proved unnecessary. After listening to city officials testify and respond to a few scattered questions from his colleagues, committee chairman Darrell Issa took control of the hearing and revealed what was really on his mind: budget autonomy for the District.
“I am going to be offering an alternative that I hope [Norton] will join with me on that provides a mechanism for a separate vote and separate consideration of the District’s funds,” Issa said, adding, “I’m looking for some sort of a structured mechanism to where this committee could say, ‘They have a plan, they can live without federal dollars and still meet the requirement,’ and each time that is received, it would allow us to say, ‘We have no reason to be in the way of your spending your dollars if you can make the commitment.’”
Everyone in the room was taken by surprise—including Issa’s aides, who had no idea their boss was going to propose the policy long sought by D.C. officials to free the city’s operations from the mercy of a fickle Congress.
“I was hugely surprised and ecstatic,” Gray recalls. “I’ve been in office now almost two years, and it was one of the moments that was absolutely wonderful for me, to see this man who’s obviously done a great job on the Hill, obviously highly respected—he didn’t have to get involved with the District of Columbia at all. He has chosen to do that, and he’s done it in a way that has supported the people of this city.”
“I about picked myself up off the floor,” says Norton. “No one thought this hearing would have that result.”
It's very possible that Darth Issa has a good relationship with the folks at the DC area. Maybe he's their new best friend.
But being the DC district is over 90% Democratic, are they really sure of their new "comrade?"
After all, Issa is a conservative Republican from California, a Tea Party favorite best known as his party’s official thorn in the side of the Obama administration. After the 2008 election, Issa lobbied hard for the top Republican spot on the Oversight Committee, pledging to fight “Barack Obama’s agenda of big government, trillions in new spending, and higher taxes.” When Republicans took the majority in 2011, Issa said he hoped to hold “seven hearings a week, times 40 weeks,” on alleged government wrongdoing.
Issa hasn’t disappointed. His investigations have probed nearly every aspect of the administration’s work from birth control to Benghazi, with such impartial hearings as last February’s “Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?”
And this coming from Eleanor Holmes Norton:
“He wants to get something done when he sits as chair of a committee,” says Norton. “It’s more difficult to do that if your committee is Oversight, because what you do is you oversight, and you don’t have as many core jurisdictions. The core jurisdiction you have is the District of Columbia.”
Would you agree with Norton that Darth Issa wants to get things done or does he really want to wage fights against the Obama administration?
People also seem to keep forgetting...
And of course, per On the Issues:
http://www.ontheissues.org/...
Voted NO on redeploying US troops out of Iraq starting in 90 days. (May 2007)
Voted YES on declaring Iraq part of War on Terror with no exit date. (Jun 2006)
Voted YES on approving removal of Saddam & valiant service of US troops. (Mar 2004)
Voted YES on authorizing military force in Iraq. (Oct 2002)
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