Sun May 19, 2013 at 03:15 PM PDT by Jon Perr for Daily Kos
With Washington engulfed in scandals real and imagined over the Benghazi tragedy, the IRS' handling of applications by political groups for tax exempt status and the Justice Department's seizure of AP phone records, California Congressman Darrell Issa is enjoying his moment in the sun.
For Republicans "energized" by the prospect of bludgeoning President Obama over his supposed misdeeds, Issa is the perfect hatchet man. After all, given his own past troubles including "the gun conviction, the three allegations of car theft, the arson allegation, the allegation that he dismissed an employee while brandishing a gun, and the mysteries about his finances," Darrell Issa is well acquainted with wrong-doing.
Before becoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in January 2011, Issa served as the Bush administration's attack dog in Congress. (That explains why in June 2010 he was already planning to double his committee staff and planning to issue subpoenas to "get the very information that today the White House is either shredding or not producing.") And perhaps most helpful in his current role, Darrell Issa appears to be lacking the embarrassment gene altogether.
You don't have to read his long rap sheet to reach that conclusion. A brief tour of the Darrell Issa Hall of Shame will suffice:
Issa Calls 9/11 Attacks in New York a Plane Crash
Issa Weeps Over Premature Withdrawal from Gubernatorial Race
Issa Asks Big Business to "Tell Me What to Change"
Issa Labels Obama "Most Corrupt" President
Issa Uses Tim Russert's Death to Push for Oil Drilling
Issa Says U.S. Treat Hospital Patients Worse Than Al Qaeda
Issa Attacks Families of Killed Blackwater Contractors
Issa Declares Blackwater Hearings an Attack on David Petraeus
Issa Charges David Petraeus with Carrying Water for Barack Obama
Issa Targets Government "In-Sourcing"
Issa Accuses Valerie Plame of Perjury
Issa Drives the Firing of U.S. Attorney Carol Lam
Issa Blames Software for Bush White House Email Destruction
Issa Defends Disgraced Bush GSA Chief Lurita Doan
Issa Offers Howard Krongard a Ticket to the White House Christmas Party
Issa Forces Jerry Nadler to Withdraw Truthful Statement about Bush's Illegal Domestic Surveillance
Issa Demands Names of Those Making Freedom of Information Act Requests
Issa Insists Everything is Like Watergate
Issa Wages 15-Year Vendetta Against Reporter Eric Lichtblau
Issa Blames His Brother for Past Brushes with the Law
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