Dem Whip: GOP majority will issue birther subpoenas against Obama

[kpete]

Dem Whip: GOP majority will issue birther subpoenas against Obama
By Jordan Fabian - 09/27/10 12:08 PM ET

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) warned Republicans will investigate President Obama's birthplace if they take over Congress.

Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, said Republicans will grind the government to a halt by issuing subpoenas against the Obama administration over a number of issues if they take power. He predicted that "gridlock" in Congress would "define" Obama's first term if Republicans win the House, but expressed confidence his party would prevail.

Clyburn noted that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking Republican on the House Oversight panel, has said will will issue "subpoenas everywhere" if Republicans win the majority.

"The White House will be full-time responding to subpoenas about where the president may or may not have been born, whether his mother and father were ever married, and whether his wife's family is from Georgetown or Sampit," Clyburn said in an interview published Monday on TheGrio.com, an African-American news website. "That will define the next two years of the president's administration.

more:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/121059-rep-clyburn-gop-majority-will-issue-birther-subpoenas-against-ob

[KingFlorez]

1. Democrats need to say this all over the place

Gridlock is the only agenda the Republicans have.

[Cosmocat]

4. Fin A ...

The media stampeded Nancy Pelosi with calls for her to promise to not investigate Bush - for actually wrong doing ...

The Rs can't even hide their glee in being prepared to T up the investigations in a Clinton like witch hunt, and the media is sitting back praying it will happen ...

[Kablooie]

16. They even try to stop the Democratic process by eliminating voters.

Everything they do is geared to preventing our Democratic government from working.

[Bitwit1234]

2. And when the Democrats issued subpoenas against

Rove and Meirs they REFUSED to show up. And nothing was done.

[Autumn]

3. Subpoenas can be ignored

we learned that from Bush and his friends.

[BlueIdaho]

5. Just what Americans have been begging for...

A Republican majority spending its time issuing pointless subpoenas while unemployed men and women watch their houses being taken away from them.

That's a promise these elitist teabagger assholes are prepared to keep.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. On The Positive Side....

I'm wondering if a two-year "pause" in the agenda would be worth it if, in 2012, a "re-disgusted" electorate would kick the Republicans to the curb in greater numbers than they did in 2006 and 2008.

If (and this is a big "if") we can get a larger "Democratic" majority in both houses, I'm wondering if we couldn't get more accomplished in four years of a responsive and responsible Congress than what have currently.

[BlueIdaho]

11. There is that...

Its difficult to say. Republicans always leave America in worse shape than they found it - so - a congress with a split control and a Democratic President to veto any lunatic legislation that leaks out could remind America that the party of NO has no idea how to help the working men and women.

That is, however, a very big gamble.

[OHdem10]

7. Congressman Issa, has a list of things he is going to investigate.

Waiting for House to Flip Republican so can issue
subpoenas to WH. Makes no effort to hide his intention.

Some goofball wants Impeachment Hearings. I cannot
figure this out--unless tne birthers think he is illegally
in the Presidency.

Democrats who scoff at this, imperil themselves. These
people stop at nothing. Will our spineless noodles ever
learn???? I borrowed spineless noodles from Willy T or W.Greene I believe.
Hope they do not mind.

[dennis4868]

8. If progressives...

Keep on bashing Obama and not get out the vote, we will have full time investigations of the WH and nothing will get done.

[CakeGrrl]

9. That's where we're headed according to some of the reasoning around here

I keep reading that you won't get some of these DUers to the polls with silly scare tactics and threats like this. They need a POSITIVE reason to get off their asses. This won't cut it.

:eyes:

[oswaldactedalone]

14. Bullcrap

Obama isn't a superhero, attempts to sabotage his agenda occur daily. He's a helluva man, a helluva President, and has earned our support and efforts to elect Democrats. What will you do to defeat the Rethuglican Teabagger Party?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. I'd love to hear Issa, et. al DENY this

just to see the birthers' heads spin around and froth at the mouth. I think that "birther" nonsense may be a bit OTT for most Republicans but I do recall some investigate reporter video recorded her attempts to pin down some Republicans on Capitol Hill and get them to affirm and/or repudiate the birthers' claims and they all but maybe one or two of them seemed too afraid to comment publicly, which leads me to believe that if somebody wants to push it, the Republicans will all fall in line and support it, even if implicitly.

Even if the "birther" stuff isn't ever pursued by the Republicans (if they even attain the majority), that's not to say that they won't pursue some equally crazy stuff and if they can't actually find something tangible, they'll just make stuff up. Whether or not any of this stuff actually pans out, that's not really even the point, of course.

[and-justice-for-all]

12. But I thought pukes were against wasteful Government spending? nt

:eyes:

[onenote]

13. Clyburn uses hyperbole to make a point, and bloggers and some DUers take him literally

Clyburn was not -- repeat not -- seriously suggesting that there will be official congressional birther investigations. Not, unless of course, you also think he was seriously suggesting that there will be official investigations as to whether Michelle Obama's family is from "Georgetown or Sampit" (Sampit is an area in Georgetown SC, which is evidence in itself that Rep. Clyburn was using hyperbole to make the point that the repubs will be wasting time on "investigations" rather than governing if they get control -- a point that is well taken.

[The Uncola]

15. So what?

Let the clowns make asses of themselves in front of the entire world. My father taught me never to stop a fool from showing their idiocy in public.

[Kablooie]

17. Problem is that their method of idiocy wreaks havoc with people's lives.

And if allowed to continue could, and has, done long term damage to our country.