Just when you thought the Grand Old Party would distance themselves from the crazy person who Still, At This Late Date is harboring the notion that the sitting president of the United States is too foreign-ish or other-ish to truly
love America, here comes the House Republican watchdog of all things crazy to praise the crazy person and
congratulate him for askin' these sorts of questions.
Issa came to Giuliani's defense on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday.
"The reality is that Rudy has taken our debate -- and I think we should thank him for this part of it -- back to national security, to the key element that the president should be focusing on," Issa said, before carefully parsing Giuliani's words in an effort to soften them.
Given that it's Darrell Issa, I indeed believe that he considers whether or not the American president "loves America" to be a debate over national security, or at least the closest his merry band of House Republicans have ever come to it.
National security means, to people like Giuliani and Issa both, that you say what you think should be done about
national security and if anybody else objects or disagrees with you it means that other person probably doesn't "love America."
We saw this throughout the Bush administration's "war on terror"; Giuliani and Issa both are merely re-explaining the long-running Republican notion that you cannot be a patriot unless you agree to do the Republican thing. Sometimes the Republican thing is shutting down the government. Sometimes it's giving certain foreign groups more guns. Sometimes it's doing whatever the opposing Democrat is already doing, but doing it differently, perhaps because saying one set of words in a speech is insufficient and an abomination but a slightly different set of words would patch this or that world crisis right up.
So Darrell Issa considers Rudy Giuliani's thoughts on whether or not the suspiciously not-Republican president loves America to be a bold entry in the "national security" debate. I think we should take his word for it, because there's been no evidence that Darrell Issa knows the difference.