[MestaMachine]

“The guts of the story scares me. Why is Boehner going around Issa ? oh, excuse me...why is Boehner’s STAFF going around Issa ?”

Therein lies yhe REAL question. Why indeed?

[Nachum]

“The guts of the story scares me. Why is Boehner going around Issa ? oh, excuse me...why is Boehner’s STAFF going around Issa ?”

The answer is really simple. Boehner wants this to go away and Issa is coming out with a steady drip of public releases to force him not to. By himself, it is obvious that Issa cannot force the major player to bring Holder down, but he refuses to let this go away.

[GOPJ]

Boehner spokesman Michael Steel, however, said the report was not true, and in a blog post attacking the Times, Boehner’s office wrote that neither the newspaper nor Savage reached out to Boehner’s team before publishing the story.

Guess that's the downside of getting all the 'tips' from one side...