Issa Fishes For Proof Obama Knew He Lied About Obamacare

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

DYLAN SCOTT – DECEMBER 2, 2013, 6:41 PM EST

House Oversight Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent letters Wednesday to 15 insurance companies demanding copies of their correspondence with the Obama administration in an effort to determine if the administration knew in advance that people could lose access to their doctors or have their existing health insurance policies canceled under Obamacare.

The letters were sent to major insurance companies -- Aetna, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, UnitedHealth Group among them. Issa asks for a response by Dec. 13.

Issa is looking for a few pieces of information. Did insurance companies know that the president would say that Americans could keep their health plan or their provider? Did they inform the administration that some plans would be canceled or provider networks changed? Did they object to that characterization?

He also asked for "all ... communications" between company employees and members of the Obama administration since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law in March 2010. There is another request for interactions between insurance company employees about the accuracy of Obama's "keep your doctor" pledge.



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[SoapBox]

1. Arggggggghhhhhhh!

p.s...Talk about "over reaching government"! AND more wasting of tax payer dollars.

Guess TeaPukes, that hate those things, love those things...will ABC, CBS, CNN, etc. cover the over reach?

Sure.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Wile E. Coyote's Acme Investigations strikes again

[merrily]

19. LOL!

Regardless of how anyone does or doesn't feel about Obama, this is a waste of time.

They would only hurt themselves if they tried to impeach him; and I think they know that. So, what's the point of trying to discredit a president who cannot run again anyway?

[madokie]

32. They don't want a person of color to ever have a chance of winning the Whitehouse ever again

thats what they're working on.
they'll treat the first woman president the same way they've treated Obama too and for the same reason.

[merrily]

33. Sadly, I think it's going to be while before another African American is POTUS.

So, they can probably give that a rest.

Not so sure about the "of color" part, though. That takes in a lot of territory, including Asian Americans and Cuban Americans whom the right seem to love (and vice versa).

[The Wielding Truth]

43. i don't. Barack has done an excellent job of staying the republican decimation plan without

civil war. Another black national leader would be welcome by the majority and as long as we can fend off the Republican kill plans for our democracy and another person of color should be elected president again and soon.

[merrily]

44. What can I say? I very much hope that you are correct, but gut is still saying otherwise.

[Thinkingabout]

3. This information wil be available as soon as Issa shows proof of ownership of the vehicles at the

Time he took possession of them. The GOP must be desperate when they even allowed Issa to be on the oversight committee. So far he has only been successful at blowing smoke.

[Dustlawyer]

7. The GOP is not desperate, that is the plan. Issa's job is to blow smoke up everybody's ass

until, and unless something real comes along. I will say that Obama had to know that some doctors would not take the new plan their patient got because they switched insurance companies. You would think that they would have known that with all of the changes required by the Affordable Care Act that some policies would be canceled.
Having said that, so what? Big deal. It still is a vast improvement in coverage and protections for almost everyone. Can we improve upon it, certainly! Will Issa move to try to Impeach Obama, certainly! He is a shit-head!

[George II]

30. Who better at ferreting out "crimes" than a convicted criminal himself?

[Thinkingabout]

37. Issa was not convicted of a crime and is attempting to create illusions of wrongdoing

and attempts to cover the truth.

[George II]

38. He pleaded guilty, "technically" a conviction

[Deep13]

4. Even though he told the truth. nt

[aggiesal]

5. Let's just say . . .

Even if Obama lied,
what crime did he commit?

I'm sure Issa lies more in 1 day
then Obama has in his career.

[maddiemom]

15. Same "crime" Bill Clinton committed?

[AlbertCat]

23. Was Obama under oath?

Was it in the SOTU address?

Did we go to war over it?

[aggiesal]

27. Clinton denied having sex . . .

with that woman . . . under oath.

Obama was not under oath.

If Issa were to prosecute every politician that told
a little white lie, Issa would be first in line.

[merrily]

34. When did Obama perjure himself?

[Jack Rabbit]

6. I think Issa knows the scandals he investigates exist only in his narrow mind

Therefore, I call on Mr. Issa to investigate himself.

I also call on Issa's constituents in Vista, California, to find a more suitable person to represent them in Congress.

[PeoViejo]

22. Perhaps they don't want Issa back..

..or the whole election was just to get him out of town.

[hrmjustin]

8. It is a shame this guy is still in congress.

[Cha]

9. Issanasshole gots to have something to keep from doing any

real work in the House of Rep.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. Issa finds so many new ways to...

increase the deficit with his bullshit witch hunts! I think he might even top Mitch as the most disgusting POS in Washington.

[trusty elf]

11. trying to start another fire....

[IMG][/IMG]

[Skittles]

12. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[TrollBuster9090]

13. I've got an idea: How about an Executive Order that ALL GOVERNMENT EMAILS be CC'd to Daryll Issa?

That way, every time something F#%ks up, he can't claim he didn't have advanced notice.

[madrchsod]

14. they will ignore him.

he`ll subpoena they and they`ll send their lawyers to stonewall. by that time congress will be on summer recess.

[cynzke]

45. Just What Insurance Companies Want.

Having to turn over private correspondence that might prove embarrassing to insurance companies and pulled in to testify in a televised hearing. Not only will they not cooperate and have to be subpoenaed, bet there will be a whole lot of hollering behind scenes demanding the plug be pulled on this investigation.

[Dopers_Greed]

16. C'mon California

Why hasn't Daryl Arsonist been voted out yet? Is he in a gerrymandered district?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. The answer lies....at an embassy....in Benghazi......

....IN THE BASEMENT!!!!

[AlbertCat]

24. Let's save all questions til after the hearing....ok?

And y'all have been my best group ever.... no really.....

[bigdarryl]

18. Is this MOTHERFUCKER SERIOUS!!!!

Even if and it's a big if the President did lie intentionally what they want to impeach him for lying

[zonkers]

20. Keep fishing, fish face. Benghazi, IRS, Fast n Furious. You are zero for three.

[mitty14u2]

21. Issa is Kangaroo Court Crazy, Why did the RGOP ask Nothing during Bush, Hate Rages On...........

[ashling]

25. Remeber, "READ MY LIPS, No New Taxes"

Remember - when he raised taxes anyway - all the subpoenas for all correspondence between Bush's lips to find out what they really said

[merrily]

35. See, people read his lips wrong. He actually said, "No nude Texans."

But, because of the poor lip reading skills of Republicans, Ross Perot had to run.

[ashling]

40. Well I would be against that policy, too

[merrily]

41. Who wouldn't be against it? (Yet, Bush Number 2 gave his nude self-portrait in the tub.)

[EC]

26. So what?

Even if he knew he was lying, what law was broken? Is it treason? Issa is the bottom of the barrel of scum as far as I'm concerned. He should have been a loan-shark.

[merrily]

36. You don't even want to know if your President deliberately lied to you?

I mean, we pay his salary and let him live like an emperor for 8 years and you don't think we deserve truth from a POTUS?

That is a bridge too far for me.

[Marie Marie]

29. Yes and we all know what a great fisherman Issa is...

[Roland99]

31. How many inquiries did Issa call over the Bush admin lies over invading Iraq?

I'm gonna guess ZERO

[yurbud]

42. about as many as Republicans questions W's sex life when the Jeff Gannon scandal broke

We got a decade of investigations into Bill Clinton's consensual sex life, but no Republicans cared to ask why a gay hooker posed as a reporter, and in addition to lobbing softball questions at Bush during his press conference, checked in when there were no press events and didn't check out.

[mitty14u2]

39. A provision of the 1995 Lobbying Disclosure Act, called the “Simpson Amendment,” prohibits Section 5

Law For Change - Section 501 (c) (4) exemption "Exclusivly"

A nonprofit corporation or nonprofit LLC (state law permitting) that is organized exclusively for the promotion of social welfare may obtain a federal income tax exemption under Section 501(c)(4) of the Code. Exemption under this section will not give donors a charitable deduction but it may enable the organization to avoid the restrictions of private foundation status and the restrictions on lobbying.

http://www.lawforchange.org/lfc/Section_501_(c)_(4)_exemption.asp

Issa opened acan of worms "Exclusivly" on this one!