GOP plans wave of White House probes

Politico ^ | August 27, 2010 | Glenn Thrush

[Liz]

Deal.

[John Galt's cousin]

might work, however aren’t you discriminating against female candidates?

8^)

[denydenydeny]

Related: Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Tex.) – who stands a chance of leap-frogging Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), the ranking GOPer on the House Financial Services Committee – is pushing for a large-scale investigation of the Community Reinvestment Act.

Be still my heart. This, and a massive audit of Fannie and Freddie, with subpoenas, will make my year.

[denydenydeny]

I’d rather hear at least an attempt at a spending freeze before any investigations.

Um, consider the source. This is Politico, and their purpose in this article is to drum up fears of "witch hunts.' You're acting like this is an RNC press release.

Everyone in the Republican caucus are going to know why they're there, believe me; the political corpses of Senators Bennett and Murkowski will be reminders.

[denydenydeny]

Do you understand that this is Politico, and they have an agenda? You’re treating this as if it were an RNC press release.

People are so gullible on this site.

[nascarnation]

Darrell Issa is almost unknown nationally right now.
A year from now he’ll be one of the best known people in DC.

[CutePuppy]

We already got a huge paper/electronic trail.......and if they destroy anything, that's prosecutable.

Official documents are NOT just pieces of paper. They are part of a high-level government process with enormous financial impact for taxpayers.

Yes, it's called deliberate or purposeful destruction of evidence. If paper or electronic records are not "found" or don't match the "independently archived" material, it may be a perjury and/or a felony offense.

I just hope our elected reps and talk shows (hosts and guests) don't talk too much about this or make it a campaign issue - this is about the only reason for the Dems / libs to get excited about and come out to vote in November elections.

[RightField]

Still, neither Issa nor Smith are said to be enthusiastic about jumping back into the controversy – considering the fact that ACORN is out of business and most Democrats have already signed on to a bill barring federal funding of the group.

Said by whom? Unnamed sources, of course. The writer is conveniently ignoring the evidence that ACORN has reorganized under different names in various states. There was quite a bit of discussion of this on FR last year.

I am privileged to live in Issa's district, and I imagine he hasn't forgotten. He is tenacious.

[Liz]

If paper or electronic records are not "found" or don't match the "independently archived" material, it may be a perjury and/or a felony offense.

As the CIA has said---"they always leave a paper trail."

[CutePuppy]

Because of ACORN, Missouri has this fright wig in the senate named Claire McCaskill.

One thing that needs semi-permanent investigating committee is the government -> unions -> Democrats axis.

[CutePuppy]

The writer is conveniently ignoring the evidence that ACORN has reorganized under different names in various states.

Very true. Another fact that author conveniently "forgot" to mention is that the federal funds comprised only 10% of ACORN's official budget, while most of its official budget came from states' funds and many of their activities were funded off-the-books by independent tax-exempt NGOs, "charities" and other political organizations.

There is a reason why almost all government workers are unionized (should be a violation of laws, if it isn't yet) and unionized government workforce is almost double that of unionized private sector.

Break / downsize and defund the unions (the muscle and partial funding arms of Democratic party) and you go a long way to destroying the pillars of the Democratic party structure.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

What you said:

"Do you understand that this is Politico, and they have an agenda? You’re treating this as if it were an RNC press release.

People are so gullible on this site."

My first sentence in my post:
"If this article is indeed true (and I’m dubious), this is a very bad idea."

You know, before criticizing, why not actually read what people say. Qualifiers and all...