rePUBLICan ENEMY #1, part 6

Aug 18th, 2011

Rep. Darrel Issa with Syria's Bashar Assad

It has been some time since Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA) created an appearance of impropriety this appalling. Earlier in the year, I went after him here, here, here, here and here. Nobody seemed to want pay that much attention at the time.

I understand that an already flabbergasted electorate had many other distractions. The potential damage I warned Issa might cause by misusing his new and powerful chairmanship of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wasn't nearly as interesting as the ceaseless parade of lunatics calling the president a socialist or suggesting that the government had no business mandating an end to segregation.