Darrell Issa has SERIOUSLY pissed off the wrong black people

[Number23]

Exhibit A

Washington D.C. (May 17, 2013)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement regarding the decision by Chairman Darrell Issa to go back on his commitment to hold a public hearing with Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral Michael Mullen, who led the Accountability Review Board that examined security in Benghazi, and instead issue a subpoena to compel Ambassador Pickering to appear at a private, closed-door deposition with staff:

“Today’s subpoena is a stark example of extreme Republican overreach and the shameful politicization of this tragedy. Chairman Issa’s accusations keep getting shot down one by one, but he simply resorts to even more extreme measures. After falsely accusing former Secretary Clinton of lying to Congress, falsely accusing the White House of deliberately misleading the American people, and falsely accusing the military of withholding critical assistance on the night of the attacks, the Chairman is now accusing Admiral Mullen, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Ambassador Pickering, a seven-time U.S. ambassador, of being complicit in a cover-up.

“Both Admiral Mullen and Ambassador Pickering have made clear that they stand ready and willing to testify at a public hearing to respond directly to these reckless accusations, but Chairman Issa is now imposing new conditions to keep them behind closed doors. The Chairman should reverse his decision, conduct a responsible and bipartisan investigation, and allow the American people to hear directly from these officials.” http://democrats.oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5925:cummings-condemns-extreme-republican-overreach-on-benghazi&catid=3:press-releases&Itemid=49

Exhibit B

Attorney General Eric Holder had tough words for Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) during Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing, criticizing the congressman's behavior as "unacceptable" and "shameful."

...Holder pressed on: "It is inappropriate and too consistent with the way in which you conduct yourself as a member of Congress. It's unacceptable, and it's shameful." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/15/eric-holder-darrell-issa_n_3280763.html

Exhibit C

U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Tex., said she didn’t appreciate the tone of her colleagues. "I know that some of us have deep base-like voices," she said (to Issa). "It might sound like we’re not being friendly and happy, but I would appreciate a little civility in the questioning of the attorney general." Number23 edit: DAYUM!!! Go Sheila!! http://www.ibtimes.com/eric-holder-feuds-darrell-issa-calls-congressman-shameful-during-house-hearing-videos-1262683#

And lastly The Grio, a black publication, has just published an extraordinarily damning article about The Heritage Foundation begging Republicans to do nothing -- not legislate, not create policy, NOTHING -- except try to bring Obama down. http://thegrio.com/2013/05/16/heritage-to-republicans-dont-legislate-just-scandalize-obama/

Darrell better stay the hell away from any soul food joints for the next month or so.

[sheshe2]

1. Soooo, The Heritage Foundation has become the "Speaker" of the House?

In light of the white hot media spotlight on the administration, and to deflect attention from the many policy areas where Republicans don’t quite get along, the letter urges: “it is incumbent upon the House of Representatives to conduct oversight hearings on those actions, but it would be imprudent to do anything that shifts the focus from the Obama administration to the ideological differences within the House Republican Conference.”

“To that end, we urge you to avoid bringing any legislation to the House Floor that could expose or highlight major schisms within the conference. Legislation such as the Internet sales tax or the FARRM Act which contains nearly $800 billion in food stamp spending, would give the press a reason to shift their attention away from the failures of the Obama administration to write another ‘circular firing squad’ article.”



The letter is signed by Heritage Action’s Chief Executive Officer, Michael A. Needham.

Fugg em!

Thanks 23, that was great!

[Number23]

3. It looks that way, doesn't it? It's astonishing how much power Grover Norquist,

Rush Limbaugh, the Heritage foundation, the NRA and a veritable plethora of right-wing lunatics have on the Repub party. They seem to hold far more power than the right-wing lunatics who were actually elected.

[1StrongBlackMan]

10. You know ...

I loves me some Grio ... it's one of my first internet stops of everyday ... But, come on media; why isn't my girl's story on the front page (above the fold) of every newspaper and every top of the hour story of every electronic media source in America?

They about to piss off another wrong Black folk!

[sheshe2]

14. Tell it, 1 StrongBlackMan!

Please do, we've got your back!

It's time to bring them down!

sheshe

[KT2000]

2. Wow - that's the way to do it!

It appears the GOP has no limits. Someone needs to set the limits for them then.

[Half-Century Man]

4. The Republicans have been trying to reach out to minorities.

....Now you've been reached out to and gently caressed by republicans......Wan'na quick 4 hr shower? I have a bar of lye if you need.

[Number23]

5. LOL! Do you think four hours will be enough?

I see a half day at the most scalding hot natural spring in my future.

You make a good point though. Their "minority outreach" has always been abysmal.

In the past week or so, we've had a Hispanic Republican Party official officially switch to the Dem party because of their hostility to minorities. We've had the 37th attempt to repeal Obamacare, and now we've got one of the dumbest members of Congress talking down to the first black Attorney General while trying (AGAIN) to smear the first black president. The three part-time staffers who head the GOP Minority Outreach Committee must be drowning themselves in their Cheerios.

[Half-Century Man]

6. If this situation had been a movie.

Everybody would have cried BULLSHIT! Who ever wrote such an unbelievable piece of crap couldn't get a job writing commercials for cat litter.

[giftedgirl77]

7. Repubs new idea of minority outreach

A little off to the side but this douchebag SEN Trey Radel FL has decided to connect by discussing how great public enemy is & how much he loves hip hop. He even went so far as to say that Public Enemys music was in line with conservative values. That got him a quick tweet back from them quickly clarifying but none the less he is still rolling with it.

The sad thing is young ppl are talking about how they didn't know their could be such a cool repub out there.

As always my civic duty requires me to remind them that while he may have rhythm he is still part of the party of racist, homophobic, bigots

[Number23]

8. Oh, please. I am begging you PLEASE post a link to the Tweet about Public Enemy

I am already giggling like a maniac at the idea of ANYONE thinking Chuck D would have anything to do with the Republican Party.

[giftedgirl77]

9. first time attaching a link hope it works

[link: https://twitter.com/treyradel/status/335145455270907904|

[Number23]

11. Yep, it worked perfectly

ChuckD: there's not much difference between the jackass & the elephant. PE is more values rather than conservative rhetoric

to which the good Congressman responds:

Sadly, I often agree with your take. That's why I ran.

Thanks, Chuck. I still love him though. He was my first musical crush -- happened when I was 14. I thought he'd hung the moon.

[giftedgirl77]

12. but the sad thing is now

All these young kids are following him talking about what a great republican he is just because he made some beats &talked about rap. The worst thing was he categorized PE as gangsta rap. I mean come on.

[Number23]

13. I know. That should have been the "young" people patting him on the back's first clue

that he didn't know what the hell he was talking about.

PE is to gangsta rap as Milli Vanilli is to Soul music.

[1StrongBlackMan]

27. LOL n/t

[brett_jv]

30. No offense, but that doesn't quite seem fair.

PE is simply a different genre, i.e. they're NOT gangsta rap.

MV otoh ostensibly purported to be 'soul', but they were terrible at it (and any other style they touched on).

Sorry to nitpick, but ... mentioning milli vanilli in the same sentence with PE ... it's just not right

[calimary]

24. Welcome to DU, giftedgirl77!

Good to have you with us! Reminds me of this old Peanuts cartoon involving Lucy and Schroeder, I think. If memory serves, the panels follow Lucy trying desperately to impress Schroeder as he pounds away on his piano. She says something high-fallutin' that is total nonsense to he who knows more about music. Her punchline is "I'm never quite so stupid as when I'm being smart." So it goes with yet another clueless but still presumptuous as Hell republi-CON.

[1StrongBlackMan]

15. P/E in line with conservative values????? ....

Wow ... I guess Trey never thought "minorities" actually listen to the words Chuck spit? I gu8ess he thought we was just bumping to da beat and waiting for Flav's, "Yeah, boyyys."

{1StrongBlackMan drops "Side B Wins Again" into the CD, cranks it up way past "neighbor acceptable", pours some Crown (Black) and chills.}

[giftedgirl77]

18. apparently all he needed to do was throw out some rhymes

These kids were talking about how great this fool is because he was featured in esquire& threw out some of his beats & they are falling all over themselves talking about how cool he is & that they didn't know Republicans could be cool.Not to mention he's a teathuglican at that, blah.

So I went ahead & tweeted every single one of the to remind them he is still part of the party of evil (more blatantly) & told them to check out Chuck D's tweet to see what the pros think of this tool.

On a side note I sent a tweet to Palin last night & because I was short on charcters used to instead of too & this douche actually replied to spell check me. But he didn't say anything about my comment about her being too dumb for faux news.

[1StrongBlackMan]

20. I'm an Old Head ...

that takes great joy in watching the young'ins eye light up when I help them connect what is and what ain't real.

[calimary]

23. I'll bring the disinfectant.

They are a VILE bunch. I'm surprised we don't see vipers slithering out of their mouths.

[freshwest]

32. With Paul Ryan wanting to repeal the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing citizenship after the Civil War?

These guys could not be more obvious than that.

[DallasNE]

16. Cummings, Leak The Proceedings To The Press

In full. Perhaps even putting in a hidden camera. Fight fire with fire.

[Number23]

19. Well, it's supposed to be a public hearing so hopefully there won't be a need to "leak" anything

But I'm actually surprised that it will be public. I wonder if Issa fought that tooth and nail.

[DallasNE]

21. Issa Reneged

It will now be behind closed doors -- that was the purpose of the subpoena.

[Number23]

22. You are absolutely right. Absolutely

I actually reiterated your point in my original post and edited it. That's what I get for having four tabs open and trying to read and respond to too many things at the same time.

[MrScorpio]

17. There are more of us pissed off too nt

[Cha]

25. Excellent Compilation, 23! So thrilled to see this happening, Go Elijah!

Found on the obama diary..

meta
May 17, 2013 at 10:31 pm

@jonkarl is getting PUMMELED on twitter. And we’re just getting started.

http://theobamadiary.com/2013/05/17/night-owl-chat-a-tune-or-two/#comments

Jeff Fecke @jkfecke

This week started with Three! Huge! Scandals! It ends with #umbrellagate. Well played, Mr. President. Well played.1:45 PM - 17 May 2013

President Obama checks to see if he still needs the umbrella held by a U.S. Marine during a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Rose Garden of the White House, May 16

http://theobamadiary.com/2013/05/16/this-and-that-75/

[Number23]

34. Ha! I love that pic, Cha!! Jackeens finds the best photos. Love her too.

[Cha]

35. That's All True, 23.

[freshwest]

40. Haha! I just noticed how Obama is helping the Marine by taking some weight off his arm there.

Lending a helping hand. Service To Others, not Service To Self, that's my President! I'm sure he appreciated the consideration.

[Cha]

41. Yes, fresh, President Obama seems like he always wants to be helping

those helping him.

[JustAnotherGen]

26. I heart Number23

Excellent post!

And if they hold this behind closed doors then they can never whine about the Obama Administration's lack of transparency ever again.

Anyone else read Cummings words and instead of hearing a little "sweetheart" in there see a little, "Go f*ck yourself Issa" in there? Because I sure did.

[1StrongBlackMan]

28. I did too ...

Now if Pickering would just write to issa ... in the form of an open letter posted on-line and sent to every major "news" outlet:

Chairman issa, I will attend and testify before your committee; however, I require an accommodation. Given the string of altered, out of context, and dishonest representations of the testimony of some of the preceding witnesses, particular - the witnesses that do not further your partisan, political narrative, I require that a stenographer, that I will employ, be present who will retain possession of his/her transcript, holding it in secret, until such time as the characterization of my testimony, differs from the actual record. At which point, the full transcript will be sent to the same media outlets that this letter appears.

DEAL?

[Number23]

33. I heart you too, darling!

And yes, there was a definite great big FU to Issa in Cumming's comments. He has had it up to here with the man and with excellent reason.

And that is an excellent point about the transparency. For all of their blubbering and whining about how "corrupt" this administration is, you'd think the Repubs would be holding all hearings in the middle of the closest shopping center at lunch time, not behind closed doors and whining that people aren't coming that haven't even been asked to come.

Issa has showed his behind and I do believe his shenanigans are going to come back and bite him on it.

[The Wizard]

29. In the words of Mike Tyson

Everyone has a plan until they punched in the mouth. Has the time come for Darrell Issa to be punched in the mouth?
Darrell Issa is Lebanese. Lebanon is a Muslim country. Is Darrell Issa, the guy who's trying to nullify a national election, a secret Muslim terrorist? The American people have the right to know if Darrell Issa is a secret Muslim terrorist. What is Darrell Issa hiding? Where is his birth certificate?

[freshwest]

31. Go for it!

[kwassa]

38. Darrell Issa is an Eastern Orthodox "Christian", and Lebanon is religiously mixed.

Darrell is also ruthless hater of Obama.

I was shocked to look up his bio. His mom is Mormon of Czech background. Read the Wiki bit on him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Issa

After leaving the military, Issa and his second wife, Kathy Stanton, moved back to the Cleveland area. They pooled their savings, sold their cars, and borrowed $50,000 from his family to invest in Quantum Enterprises, an electronics manufacturer run by a friend from Cleveland Heights that assembled bug zappers, CB radio parts and other consumer products for other companies. One of those clients, car alarm manufacturer Steal Stopper, would become the path to Issa's fortune. It was struggling badly, and he took control of it by foreclosing a $60,000 loan he had made to it when its founder, Joey Adkins, missed a payment. Adkins remained as an employee.[9]

Issa soon turned Steal Stopper around, to the point that it was supplying Ford with thousands of car alarms and negotiating a similar deal with Toyota. But early in the morning of September 7, 1982, the offices and factory of Quantum and Steal Stopper in the Cleveland suburb of Maple Heights, caught fire. The fire took three hours to put out. The buildings and almost all inventory within were destroyed. An investigation of the cause of the fire noted "suspicious burn patterns" with fires starting in two places aided by an accelerator such as gasoline.[9] Adkins said that Issa appeared to prepare for a fire by increasing the fire insurance policy 462% three weeks previously, and by removing computer equipment holding accounting and customer information. Adkins said that he thinks Issa set the fire on purpose. The insurance company was suspicious of arson and paid only about one-tenth the insured amount.[19]
Directed Electronics

[The Wizard]

39. Spoofing Pox News(NT)

[Cha]

36. A Washington ‘whodunit’: who fed bogus Benghazi ‘emails’ to the media? *UPDATE: a ‘glaring ommission

Cross post from Politics 2013..

Wanted to add this Report to your thread, 23.. from Joy Reid.. she's On This. Can't imagine Issa being too happy about that.

It's really long.. so I've taken out enticing snips to lead you to the whole article..especially the Updates at the bottom of her Piece..

snip*** way down towards the end..

Whodunnit?

Maddow and others are calling on Karl to give up his source, since it appears he was used to transmit false information in order to plant the seeds of a media scandal. I doubt he will do that, both because it’s not in the nature of a journalist, especially in the small, cruel world that is Washington, to burn a source — even a bad one. Every political source has friends. And every reporter needs sources with friends.

The fact is, it will ultimately be up to good old fashioned sleuthing (or another, timely leak…) to figure out who fed bogus information to ABC and TWS. And my own sources say there is a fair amount of nervousness among Republican staffers on Capitol Hill right now over this potential story. So no one’s taking the risk of losing their jobs by talking.

So who could the leaker be?

***snip

UPDATE: A very trusted source of mine gave me a cryptic piece of advice yesterday, which was to take a look at the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. I didn’t know quite what to make of it at the time, but tonight it occurred to me: could someone on that committee also have been on the Select Committee on Intelligence, which is the one that got the email briefing in February?

snip***

Pretty juicy list! Note how stacked the minority side of the committee is with presidential aspirants, potential aspirants, a former aspirant, and some of the most hardcore tea party Senators, including some, like Rand Paul, John McCain and Kelly Ayotte, who have gone after, first Susan Rice, and then Hillary Clinton guns blazing on Benghazi. But only one of those Senators ALSO sits on the Select Committee on Intelligence — which is the one that my administration source says got the February briefing”

***snip

Suspense!

A Whole Lot More.. including who Joy Reid thinks could be the source passing bogus emails.

h/t Meta @ TOD http://blog.reidreport.com/2013/05/benghazi-emails-whodunit/

I so hope Jon Karl's "source" is sleuthed out. Wonder if he's shaking in his shoes yet or too arrogant to think "I could really get busted here!"?

[Number23]

37. Wow! Why do I get the feeling this is all going to turn into some juicy, page-turning novel

before too long? This is getting absolutely juicy.