Darrell Issa....POS

[marmar]

from ThinkProgress:



Issa dissimises torture: ‘We treat our hospital patients worse than al Qaeda.’»

Today, during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) dismissed the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo and other U.S. detention facilities. According to Issa, “we treat our hospital patients worse” than we treat al-Qaeda”:

It’s clear we treat our hospital patients worse than al-Qaeda. I know, they were poking me with needles the whole time.

Issa joins a long list of conservatives who have poked fun at or downplayed torture. But according to a new book by Jane Mayer of the New Yorker, torture is no laughing matter. In fact, “the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of war crimes.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/17/issa-we-treat-our-hospital-patients-worse-than-al-qaeda/

[Solly Mack]

1. Yeah he is!

[whistle]

2. Issa is one of those assholes who feels he needs to say something

...no matter how asinine it might be

[bdamomma]

3. oh California brothers and sisters vote him out !!!!!!!!!!

[Maat]

9. I'm working on it right now.

http://roberthamiltonforcongress.wordpress.com/ .

We all went to a huge fundraiser for Robert, who actually IS a veteran, a few weeks ago. Spread the word!

This comment will help Bob out!

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. That Car Thief, Arsonist Congressman is on my top ten list of Republican

Assholes ever.

[cascadiance]

10. And if it weren't for that jerk, we might still have Gray Davis as governor... And get rid of DiFi!

With his whole BS funding of the recall on Gray Davis, perhaps without him that never would have happened.

Then also Dems might have been more inclined to investigate Diane Feinstein's conflicts of interest with her husband's investments and her committee assignments/actions, and perhaps we could have replaced her with a DECENT senator from California that would be more like Barbara Boxer than JoeBlow Lieberman!

[Vincardog]

5. may we suggest that any POS who believes these are just "Frat Pranks" volunteer for stress position

in temperature extremes then stand naked in solitary confinement for 6 months;
before they are water boarded? Then They can have electric prods placed on their genitalia and be threatened with dogs.

[niyad]

6. isn't he the bastard who started the recall vote on gov, davis, which gave us the gropenator?

On February 5, 2003, anti-tax activist Ted Costa announced a plan to start a petition drive to recall Davis. Several committees were formed to collect signatures, but Costa's Davis Recall Committee was the only one authorized by the state to submit signatures.
By law, the committee had to collect signatures from registered California voters amounting to 12% of the number of Californians who voted in the previous gubernatorial election (November 2002) for the special recall vote to take place. The organization was given the go-ahead to collect signatures on March 25, 2003. Organizers had 160 days to collect signatures. Specifically, they had to collect at least 897,158 valid signatures from registered voters by September 2, 2003.
The recall movement began slowly, largely relying on talk radio, a website, cooperative e-mail, word-of-mouth, and grassroots campaigning to drive the signature gathering. Davis derided the effort as "partisan mischief" by "a handful of right-wing politicians" and called the proponents "losers." Nevertheless, by mid-May recall proponents said they had gathered 300,000 signatures. They sought to gather the necessary signatures by July in order to get the special election in the fall of 2003 instead of March 2004 during the Democratic presidential primary election, when Democratic Party turnout would presumably be higher. The effort continued to gather signatures, but the recall was far from a sure thing and the proponents were short on cash to promote their cause.
The movement took off when wealthy U.S. Representative Darrell Issa, a Republican representing San Diego, California, announced on May 6 that he would use his personal money to push the effort. All told, he contributed $1.7 million of his own money to finance advertisements and professional signature-gatherers. With the movement accelerated, the recall effort began to make national news and soon appeared to be almost a sure thing. The only question was whether signatures would be collected quickly enough to force the special election to take place in late 2003 rather than in March 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_recall_election,_2003

[HowHasItComeToThis]

7. YES, HE IS A VERY DANGEROUS REPULSIVE

[cascadiance]

11. He also tried to keep that split electoral college prop going this time with his money!

... and then tried to deny it or minimize his role in it too...

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/rep.-issa-downplays-role-in-california-initiative-2007-11-01.html

[rudy23]

8. Conservatives don't have arguments, they make self-serving rationalizations.

All in the name of "survival".