Rep. Issa Gets Panties in A Twist Over Potential Loss of Obama's White House Emails
By Susie Madrak Friday Feb 20, 2009 12:00pm
They really have no sense of irony, do they? Funny, how indifferent they were to millions of missing BushCo emails:
WASHINGTON (CNN) – A California Republican congressman has called on President Obama to put in place a system that ensures all White House emails be preserved even if official business was done through private e- mail accounts.
Rep. Darrell Issa, the senior Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, made the request in a February 19 letter to White House Counsel Greg Craig.
Issa specifically mentioned the new administration’s brief use of Gmail accounts after Obama was sworn in last month, as they waited for the official White House e-mail accounts to become active.
“As you know, any e-mail sent or received by White House officials may be subject to retention under the Presidential Records Act (PRA),” Issa wrote Craig in the letter.
[...] A White House spokesman told CNN Thursday that all staff were told to forward any official correspondence to their White House e-mail accounts, and added that private e-mail accounts are no longer being used.
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....Issa? No due respect: Just shut your piehole, pig. Where were you the last 8 years? Don't even answer. Just stick with shutting up, idiot.
Making sure President Obama doesn't pull the same shit Dick and George got away with?
Letter to Darryl from Greg Craig:
Dear Darryl:
You show me yours and I'll show you mine. Other than that - piss off.
Sincerely,
Greg
sheer fucking hyprocracy..
the we lose everything we get our hands on
fucking gop..now wants everything documented..
lowlife gaul
Not as we do!
Hypocrites.
Oh give me a fu*king break! What else can you say after what had to be the most secretive administration's in the history of our country and now we have a president who prides himself on transparency. Jeez!
..it's important to remember that Darryl Issa is a huge scumbag.
And I do mean huge.
and the man who started the recall against Gov. Pete Wilson. When Arnold jumped in and Issa's numbers tanked, he cried as he withdrew. No one should pay the least bit of attention to him
not Pete Wilson.
Davis was recalled.
Wasn't it something we took from Mexico a while back. Didn't it achieve statehood and function as such for a period of time?
What is this mythical land of which you speak? Let me know when you find it; I find myself stranded in a dead-broke state, which also just recently permamently took the right to marry away from an entire group of its citizens, called Ahnoldfornia and would welcome a West Coast alternative.
to jump up and down until it slides off the plate and you can make a swim for Nevada.
IOU for your state. Don't worry. He's good for it.
True...Pete SHOULD have been....but not Davis.
Now that we have decided that the law is something we should uphold, when the FUCK are they going after Bush, Rove, etc?
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All the republicans are trying to think up ways to be relevant. I guess this was the best Issa could do. I betcha the white house will be afraid of him now. Not!
Banks are failing, people are losing their jobs, housing, healthcare and this guy who can only vote NO on everything that really matters is worried about white house e-mails. What a friggin idiot.
HIS fearless leader fucked everyone into believing incriminating emails no longer exist, can you blame him? He's doing what all of these assholes do; that is, knowing what HIS party would do, projecting it on to the opposition and then demanding it be stopped under the IOKIYAR clause of the GOP 'Tenets of Reasoning' handbook.
of Issa struggling with actual knotted panties is almost too much for me to bear...
When angered, panties should be in a wad or, in extreme cases, a bunch. Knickers get twisted.
How does the atomic wedgie figure into all that?
by Ysbaddaden or Mitt Romney. It's a Captain Underpants issue.
This is classic post-1980 Republican behavior: Accuse other people of crimes you yourself have perpetrated or are perpetrating.
Repubs are masters of projection.
(And they're so f'ing shameless they do it with impunity. It's impossible to believe Issa is so stupid he doesn't know about all the "lost" e-mails during the Bush administration.)
Were all the emails ever recovered from the bush white house? Maybe Issa could look into that little mystery before he takes on this administration. You know, set a good example and all.
Their blush response must be as dead as the proverbial dodo.
Along with any remaining brain cells.
Let's not get OUR panties in a twist. According to my friend Michelle Bachmann, with all the census data going straight to Obama's e-mail blackberry account, Issa will be history after the next redistricting.
Maybe we should pity this bag of pig shit .. clearly he has been bent over for so long, hands to ankles, screaming 'next' to every passing REPIGICAN PENIS BEHIND HIM, that he has been gang banged into incoherence ....
.....coffee all over keyboard and T-shirt.
[mouth agape]
Let's get that tool from the NY Post to draw THAT one, eh??
LOL
was this shit-for-brains and his dyed hair during the 8 years of the Bush junta?
... things like Michael Newdow's suit over the Pledge of Allegiance, which resulted in blatant photo-ops by Republicans posing with smiling school kids.
What are the republicans going to demand next? Are they going to say a president has to have actual proven information of a country being a threat to the US before he invades another country?
or that all yellow cake be made using only Betty Crocker cake mix?
I don't know, but I bet that a standard reading and comprehension test would have saved us a lot of heartache the last 8 years.
to actually count the votes.
Ok, Bush was bad and what Bush did was bad. The Bush administration was secretive. Obama promised transparency, so his administration should be transparent.
So what if Issa is being hypocritical. Aren't the Democrats being hypocritical if they don't also call for transparency from the Obama administration?
Take care of your little straw man there. This isn't about dems not calling for transparency, this is about the hypocrisy of after eight years of the curtains being drawn shut in the white house and now repubs demanding that they be open all the time.
Don't forget that there is the flipside.
After 8 years of pretending to fight Bush, the Dems are all quiet about transparency. Hell, I haven't heard one speak out about the 5-day rule that got trashed on day one.
look, smart guy -
the fact remains - Issa found a handful of users who were using Gmail rather than whitehouse.gov email. so. the Obama staffers like - fixed that.
so - you wanna talk transparency?
constituents to Bush: "please use official email and backup your emails"
Bush to constituents: "fuck you"
constituents to Obama: "please use official email and backup your emails"
Obama to constituents: "oh shit, were some of us not doing that? oh shit, I'm sorry homies... here... ya, no problem, done and done. anything else?"
twisted transparent panties, wheyghey.
Are you talking about his signing the SCHIP bill? The public has known about that since bush vetoed it. The support in DC supported it. What's the big deal?
Politicized Tim Russert's death
On June 17, 2008, a few days after the sudden death of Tim Russert, ...[m]any congressmen gave brief speeches in praise of Russert. However, Issa used his speech to push for domestic oil drilling, saying "We are going to miss Tim Russert when it comes to the people on both sides of the issue of why we have ... $5 gasoline and $135 oil. I think Tim Russert would have been just the right guy to hold people accountable, who would talk about the 68 million acres that are, quote, inactive, while in fact 41 million are under current lease and use and are producing millions of barrels of oil and natural gas a day."
AND
9/11 victims
In April 2008, Issa said that the federal government "just threw" buckets of cash at New York for the September 11, 2001 attacks "that had no dirty bomb in it, it had no chemical munitions in it." He went on: "I have to ask ... why the firefighters who went there and everybody in the city of New York needs to come to the federal government for the dollars versus this being primarily a state consideration."
AND
Blackwater controversy
On February 7, 2007, during a hearing in which four mothers, wives, and daughters of four security guards killed in Iraq testified in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Issa made controversial remarks, implying that the hearing was partisan and insinuating that the women's testimony was written by their attorney... Congresswoman Janice Schakowsky of Illinois lambasted Issa saying, "I also wanted to take exception to questions about who wrote this, first of all, because I think clearly the implication was that somehow these wonderful women could not possibly have written that wonderful, heartfelt testimony and that it took a lawyer in order to put it together and I resent that very much."
AND
Allegations of criminal involvement in early years
In 1971, Issa allegedly stole a Dodge sedan from an Army post near Pittsburgh. The allegation was made by a retired Army sergeant, and published in a 1998 newspaper article. Issa denied the allegation. No charges were filed.
In 1972, Issa and his brother allegedly stole a red Maserati sports car from a car dealership in Cleveland. He and his brother were indicted for car theft, but the case was dropped.
Also in 1972, Issa was convicted in Michigan for possession of an unregistered gun. He received three months probation and paid a $204 fine.[14]
On December 28, 1979, Issa and his brother allegedly faked the theft of Issa's Mercedes Benz sedan. Issa and his brother were charged for felony auto theft, but the case was dropped by prosecutors for lack of evidence. Later, Issa and his brother were charged for misdemeanors, but that case was not pursued by prosecutors. Issa accused his brother of stealing the car, and said that the experience with his brother was the reason he went into the car alarm business.
A day after a court order was issued, giving Issa control of automotive alarm company A.C. Custom over an unpaid $60,000 debt, Issa allegedly carried a cardboard box containing a handgun into the office of A.C. Custom executive, Jack Frantz, and told Frantz he was fired. In a 1998 newspaper article, Frantz said Issa had invited him to hold the gun and claimed extensive knowledge of guns and explosives from his Army service. In response, Issa said, "Shots were never fired. ... I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life."
Criticism and controversy
a fine upstanding specimen of the typical republican thug. And, let's not forget the MSM elbowing and kicking each other in their rush to be the first in line to suck his balls.
"Car thieves should be locked up and we should throw away the key. Never in the history of the United States has there been, nor will there ever be, a lower form of scum and villainy. I stand by my pledge to hunt these people down to the end of my days. Feel the burn of my white hot, righteous outrage."
~Rep. Darell Issa
according to Wikipedia who
"... made his fortune through his company, Directed Electronics Incorporated, that is most famous for its flagship product, the "Viper" car alarm. It bears one notable siren that is a recording of Issa's voice, "please step away from the car."[2] As of 2004, Directed Electronics was North America's largest aftermarket automotive electronics manufacturer. Issa divested all personal interest in Directed Electronics after being elected to public office, but is one of the richest members of the House."
I can tell you the Club works better than the Viper.
Damn! He's just a sweetheart, isn't he. Big heart, thoughtful, what more could you want?
/snark
We're really in the barnyard now, the republicans are dead, "chickens with their heads cut off"(so to speak) but they keep running around without knowing anything. They don't help, they're just in the way. They are annoying. What do you do? Whack them with the manuer shovel and finish the job. It's better for them and it's better for you. Win/Win
Old McDonald....
we're all advocating NOT saving the emails?
Karl Rove may be twisted, but he is brilliant.
This is what happens when you have a complicit media who won't call bullshit when a corruput Administration stretches or outright breaks the law.
not a single person has said that, from what I can see. We are just blasting this twit for his blazing hypocrisy.
so it's whining 'cause we got out maneuvered. Understood.
Carry on.
but...what?
And I will "carry on" when I damn well please. I don't need your permission. Oh, by the way: you and I aren't "we", most especially if you're just going to be a snot (edit) to me, for no good reason that I can see.
Your correct response is a simple "Who you calling we...."
you can then add "asshole" if you like. Many here do.
'cause "we" (don't flatter yourself or me...I wasn't referring to you and I) didn't call bullshit when the Bush White House was destroying files, deleting emails, etc....and now we are being kept to a standard (a correct standard I may add)that they never kept...but because now it appears we are being lectured to by hypocrites...we have OUR panties in a bunch.
Early bloggers
I think the last one's an ancient ancestor of harry reid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIRb8TigJ28&fe...
All the time. Every day. ON THIS BLOG. What the hell are you talking about?
And just for the record, I am totally in favor of holding Obama to a high standard and that includes not letting him "lose" emails. And yes! For crying out loud! My panties are very much in a bunch because I am being lectured by the fox not to eat the hens! Are you just argumentatively agreeing with me? Wild.
"Don't flatter yourself". Good one...turned THAT around on me...sheesh...
I think ricky has you dialed on this one.
ricky said,
"don't take this as an insult"
Touche'! (other thread, right? Havne't looked back there recently)
Yeah, too many people think I am aiming at them personally, which of course I won't always deny.
In your case, I had nothing to do with it, i was with my cousin in the Dominican Republic taking medicine.
:)
(personally, i have been making more of an effort to back up and not take things so seriously or at the very least re-evaluate and consider the possibility that I am the one getting it wrong. Take LandP and me on this thread for example...wtf are we bitching at each other about, exactly? Dunno anymore! Better to just laugh it all off)
Because he comes up with sneaky ways to screw the public? That's not brilliance, it's criminal. He was no doubt a picked on fat kid with tons of zits and now he's a punk that's protected by the elite and the rich. Brilliant? No way! And has anyone in California bothered to email/contact this asshole Issa's office and complained?
Quick...call a cop.
thy essence is Republican
There seems to be some belief among the Dems that to prosecute the Bush Administration for its crimes would "look bad," or "look like vengeance," or "subject Dems to similar scrutiny."
But the fact is, the Rethugs have NO SHAME. They will engage in wildly blatant hypocrisy without batting an eye. They will hold Democrats to standards to which the Rethugs would never bother to aspire.
And that's why the Democratic Congress must investigate and prosecute the Bush Administration. Not merely for the sake of Justice - who would be so naive as to care about THAT anymore? - but because NOT prosecuting buys them NOTHING. It's not as if the Rethugs will go easier on the Dems for the Dems' forbearance!
No, the Rethugs will paint the Dems as spiteful and corrupt ANYWAY, so there's no reason NOT to prosecute the Rethuglicans.
And then there's that whole "justice" issue...
Yeah...what you said!
and patsy for Xe (Blackwater). If he didn't hate America so much, he would resign his Congressional seat, and go to work for them in order to protect our freedoms
Brief, high-cut or boys cut?
Nylon, spandex or microfibre?
Whose panties die he get in a twist? His own? Does he wear panties? Are they pink?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt8PDTUNyPE
...they're sure to soiled and, uhm...skidmarked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJXZVs_drUA&fe...
Knickers get twisted. Panties get wadded. Or bunched.
Tossed on the floor....
Not if they're crotchless.
Stuck to the wall...
Crucified panties will become the symbol of the next great world religion?
..Issa doesn't know that nothing ever disappears on the Internets least of all e-mails.
Seems 'Republicanism' goes way back before our current crop of charlatains, here is some cartoons from the late 1800's, many from France, anyone remember Marie Antoinette?
http://www.cartoonstock.com/vintage/directory...
Some of the captions mirror exactly what is going on today like, 'Is that what you want you little idiot?' or 'I smell a rat'.
....the neo-
naziscons have deleted more E-mails and shreaded more documents than the entire contents of the Library of Congress regarding the attack on 9/11/01 alone. Now these fuckers have the nerve to demand accountability, when they have proven they didn't know the meaning of the word for said eight years.It would seem that a bunch of republicans have a bad case of selective memory these days.
....no shame or love of country, to boot.
do as we say NOT as we do.........hypocrites.
Wasn't there a fire in Dick Cheney's office?
....several small fires in The Salomon Brothers Building at Ground Zero on 9/11, too. Probably the Enron files at the SEC office in NYC.
Let's not whine! What's a little fire between friends?
Where there's smoke...there's Dick Cheney.
I thought it be Bill Clinton not inhaling.
Sense of Irony? No. Sense of Hypocrisy? Absolutely. But then again, IOKIYAR
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Why, it's not missing E-Mails when (R)ushpublicans do it, NO?
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There ya go!
I have no problem with him (and Congress) trying to check Obama's power. That is healthy. But where was this piece of shit for the past 8 years as the last President pissed all over our Constitution?
Once again, all this shows is that these motherfucking republicans are nothing but partisan republicans first, and Americans second.
Once again, all this shows is that these motherfucking republicans are nothing but partisan republicans first, and Americans second.
Gosh! Really! Who knew!?!
Now you are going to get up this person's nose for agreeing with you, too?
Crank up the medication, get some exercise, tell your reflection nice things; whatever it takes to wind yourself down a notch.
I've gotta agree. The issue here isn't that he's trying to keep Obama honest. It's that he didn't bother keeping Bush honest.
The issue is that the Democratic minority didn't keep Bush honest.
Edited. Over the top. -- Sitemonitor.
That I can sort of agree with. Graphic and gross, but not altogether untrue in the sense that I wish more could have been done. I knew we'd find some common ground! Sorta.
LOL
Peace.
Your swinging wildly here.
Check your facts:
Plenty of proud liberals tried to force Bush to adhere to the rule of law:
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/27675
And here's an important point from the current White House (from the article referenced above):
Obama (and his staff) was already on top of this, and Issa just wants to keep bitching.
But go ahead, blame Pelosi.
f*cking putz!
... it's all lost on these slimy scumbags.
To the not-so-honorable Mr. Issa:
STFU.
I sure wish I could invent such a thing. I would wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice.
Bullshit-O-Meter
It works on shit and buckets, but I am not sure about bulls.
There are no words to explain my frustration and disgust to this post just a visual:
Arms crossed head down and moving side to side....
Nice visual.
Imagine me alternating between rubbing my palms into my eye sockets and then my temples while I wonder how fellers like Issa manage to hold onto their office.
Definition of hypocrite; see Republican, GOP, conservative, neocon..
GFY Issa.
Where was his screeching indignation about the Bush administration knowingly destroying emails that the Justice Department wanted to see?
He really needs to shut the hell up.
Entire thread to date.
:)
Where was this fucker when Rove tossed all his emails? Millions of them. Get this jerk out of my face!!! What a dick!
By the way I figured that the whole of the comments would be saying the same thing. I just wanted to add my vote.
At least Biden won't have to worry about any of these charges given how the Vice President is actually in the legislative branch, not executive.
Right Mr. Cheney?
How about telling them just to STFU, unless they produce the missing 5,000,000 BushCo. e-mails.
A car alarm salesman, who was charged with car theft and insurance fraud.
And by "man of contradictions" I mean that he is a hypocrite piece of shit.
Way to go San Diego, between Cunningham and Issa you got the fascist lying sack of shit quota firmly covered.
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