Posted on 02/15/2011 3:35:20 PM PST by jazusamo
Democrats are understandably obsessed with Darrell Issa -- he's built himself up as a one-man investigative machine aimed straight at the Obama presidency.
But a handful of liberal political operatives in California -- including a former Hillary Clinton hand - are taking their anti-Issa passion to a whole new level, launching a nonprofit group, a website and even paid media advertisements aimed at undermining and investigating the rabble-rousing chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
They say they're leaving no stone unturned in digging into Issa's personal and business history. This week, the group will reveal more than 100 pages about an investigation into a fire that burned down a building that housed his business in the early 1980s.
The launch of this group -- which calls itself The Third Lantern, and is naming the website the Issa Files -- is remarkable because it's wholly focused on the activities of one lawmaker who has no immediate plans to run for higher office. The purpose of this new group is to make public documents more public, make life difficult for Issa and sow seeds of doubt on his investigations.
They plan to run TV advertisements and other paid media in the future, saying they already have a "significant commitment" of cash. A spokesman for Issa, Kurt Bardella, dismissed the effort as a "misguided and distasteful smear campaign against Chairman Issa."
Loaded headline :)
Isa, apparently, is the word Jesus in Arabic. http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=isa+jesus
Isa, apparently, is the word Jesus in Arabic..... And?
They’ll try to tear him down
I see this as very good news.
They’re sweating what he’s gonna do to Baraq.
At least one side realizes they are in a war.
Flak -> Target
Yep, Hussein and his whole mob party are sweating.
You’re right, I think Issa understands too.
“But a handful of liberal political operatives in California...”
Well-funded , perhaps, by SEIU and ACORN/
Issa is a tough SOB. He’s no babe in the woods. All this stuff about his past has been brought up over and over again. All his constituents know this stuff, and they’re the only ones who really matter.
The goal of the effort against him is to get the press to turn up the heat to signal that it’s okay to stiff Issa on his subpoenas and other efforts to get records and to offset the damage he does to obastard and the rats with personal baggage against Issa in order to minimize the damage to obastard in ‘12.
That’s all this is about.
Agree. I doubt this will mean much to Issa. It’s like the Rats want to keep saying he’s corrupt over and over so some start believing it, not gonna work.
Yeah, it’s the car alarm and insurance stuff from 35 years ago again. It’s even less relevant than White Water, and look where Hillary is.
Issa will ignore them, although I’d like to see him go Tony Soprano on them. ;)
From the cited Politico article:
They say they’re leaving no stone unturned in digging into Issa’s personal and business history. This week, the group will reveal more than 100 pages about an investigation into a fire that burned down a building that housed his business in the early 1980s.100 pages? So what? IMHO, they have nothing. If they did, it would have come out a long time ago.
These asswipes and The Big Bad Wolf have a lot in common.
I wonder how much this group, who do not need to report their funding sources, have spent on smoke and mirrors?
LOL! Absolutely right. When these turkeys have to go back nearly 30 years everyone knows they’re really reaching, if there was any wrong doing it would have come to light many years ago.
And they don't have to say, until we get those laws changed that allow anonymity.
However, NGOs that donate to these new anti-Issa orgs cannot, by law, keep their donations secret. That it, secrecy goes only one way. If CAP gives to these orgs, there'll be a paper trail, even though these orgs do not have to say if Soros gives via CAP.
Just a matter of time, if Breitbart throws any resources to finding out who's financing this hit squad.
In the meantime, citizen journalists can try to figure out a way to find out.
I keep thinking that Westboro is financed by CAP or some laundered CAP puppet.
Let’s get the names of the people involved in digging up the dirt and create a back ground wiki on them. Civic minded people all over the country can dig up tid-bits of information on them and post it to the web.
Issa's a local. He's a prick which makes him a very shiny target for those who wish to prevent legitimate oversight of their precious Obama's administration.
Good...That’s the type we need to deal with Obama and his RAT thugs.
It’s about time we have someone with backbone. Thanks!
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