The dude was just a cockblocker, eh?
Posted on 10/17/2014 2:45:18 PM PDT by maggief
California Republican Darrell Issa has a well-deserved reputation for finding ways to bring the issue of the moment into his committee’s jurisdiction.
President Barack Obama’s handling of the Ebola crisis is no exception.
On Friday afternoon, the Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman announced he would convene a full panel hearing in seven days, on Oct. 24, titled, “The Ebola Crisis: Coordination of a Multi-Agency Response.”
As with the Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing earlier this week, Issa’s hearing will explore whether federal agencies properly handled the first known cases of the Ebola virus in the United States, according to an official description emailed to reporters.
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It’s also one of the last hearings that Issa will get to call as chairman of the committee, as his three terms as the panel’s top Republican are capped at the end of the year.
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Not a d**mn thing. Wish we had successfully primaried this nitwit ... unless we did and I missed it.
***Toothless Tiger Alert***
Klain also has cozy ties to Reno’s Deputy Attorney General, and Fannie Mae’s $26m Mistress of Disaster.
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THE PURSUIT OF A DAUNTING ENERGY JOB
Washington Post - Wednesday, January 6, 1993
Author: Al Kamen ; Thomas W. Lippman ; Steven Mufson ; David S. Broder
EXCERPT
Washington lawyer Jamie S. Gorelick, a longtime FOZ (Friend of Zoe’s), has put together a legal brain trust to assist Attorney General-designate Zoe E. Baird at her confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.).
The group includes two former Biden chief counsels, Mark Gitenstein and Ron Klain , former staff director Jeff Peck, and Duke Law School Prof. Walter Dellinger, veterans of bitter fights over judicial nominations in the late 1980s who now find themselves working for, not against, committee confirmation.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-05-04/news/1994124102_1_general-janet-reno-white-house-clinton
Both Ms. Gorelick and Mr. Klain have solid relationships with the White House, and are expected to take the place of Webster Hubbell, the associate attorney general and close Clinton friend who resigned in March, as a pipeline between Ms. Reno and the White House.
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Biden Aide Bolsters Kagan’s Liberal Credentials
At a White House background briefing this morning on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, Vice President Biden’s chief of staff Ron Klain said the nominee is “clearly a legal progressive” whose “pragmatic perspective” will be an important addition to the Court. Asked to elaborate, Klain cited aspects of her resume, not any expressed views. She clerked for appeals judge Abner Mikva and Justice Thurgod Marshall and for Presidents Clinton and Obama, Klain noted, so “I don’t think there’s any mystery” to the fact that she is a progressive.
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For his own part, Klain said he has known Kagan since they were both at Harvard Law School. Klain clerked for Justice Byron White the same year Kagan clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall. When White retired in 1993, it was Klain, then working in the Clinton White House, who received the news from White. Klain was a top aide to the Al Gore campaign in 2000, then became a partner at O’Melveny & Myers in D.C.
The dude was just a cockblocker, eh?
“Has Issa actually done anything in the last two years?”
Made the top of the list of richest people in Congress.
He wrote many letters and got really, really, really mad a few times.
By the time he gets any traction, we’ll all be dead
she’s going to get carpel tunnel syndrome.
Yeah...he collected a big salary and many perks for doing nothing of substance. What a kabuki joke.
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