Who is Rep. Darrell ISSA, R- CA 49? NOT just another car thief, obviously!

If you have not seen today's video of Issa getting gaveled into silence by the Honorable
Rep. Henry Waxman, Chairperson, House Oversight Comm., that is where to start:

Waxman Threatens to Kick Issa Out of Hearing Room
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x135034

Be sure to click FIVE STARS over at YouTube too for this one.

1. Issa is known as a major contributor/co-conspirator in the 2003 recall election of Governor Gray Davis.

2. Issa is known as a major LIAR in the USA Carol Lam firing. Wonder why? Here is a timeline:



3. Issa is a bomb disposal technician, albeit he did not show his skills today!!

4. Issa is one of the richest members of the House, gaining his fortune from car alarms. "Please step away from the car" is his voice.

5. Issa blew $12 million of his personal wealth (and $400K in contributions) for the nomination for Boxer's US Senate seat, and was defeated in the primary.

6. Issa was elected Rep. in 2000. In 2002, the Democrats failed to field a candidate in his 2nd most Republican district in CA, second to Orange Co.

7. Issa contributed over $1.6 million to help fund a signature-gathering drive for the petition to recall Gray Davis.

8. Issa intended to place himself on the ballot to replace Davis, withdrew, then even suggested voting against the recall.

9. Issa has traveled to Lebanon and Syria in an effort to negotiate the end of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon.

10. Issa has been called "Jihad Darrell", charged with sympathizing with Hezbollah.

11. Issa experienced an aborted Jewish Defense League plot in 2001 to bomb his district office in San Clemente.

12. Issa, a reputed car thief, allegedly stole a Dodge sedan from an Army post near Pittsburgh.

13. Issa and his brother allegedly stole a red Maserati sports car from a car dealership in Cleveland.

14. Issa was convicted in Michigan for possession of an unregistered gun.

15. Issa and his brother allegedly faked the theft of Issa's Mercedes Benz sedan, and were charged for felony auto theft. Issa accused his brother.

16. Issa stated that he takes "maybe one-twentieth" of the responsibility for Lam's firing.

17. Issa testified at the March 6, 2007, United States House Committee on the Judiciary hearing. (Statement of Congressman Darrell Issa http://judiciary.house.gov/OversightTestimony.aspx?ID=764)

18. Issa said, in April 2008, that the federal government "just threw" buckets of cash at New York for the September 11 2001 attack.

19. Issa was shut up today by Rep. Henry Waxman!!

20. Issa may be defeated in November.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Issa
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Darrell_Issa
http://www.google.com/search?q=darrell+issa

And i will do everything in my power, to have him defeated this November

:grr: :grr: :grr:

:hi:

Had to turn off Bill Maher the night that Issa was on, in his 'cool' black leather jacket
and his dyed hair/hairpiece.

Truly a hateful, egomaniacal right-wing tool.

Edit:typo

Darrell Issa's Software Error
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/03/7814_darrell_issas_s.html


During a House Oversight Committee hearing last month on the preservation of White House records, an indignant Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), a frequent critic of Chairman Henry Waxman's investigations, did his best to play down the extent of the Bush administration's now well-documented email archiving problems. Defending the White House's decision to switch from the Lotus Notes-based archiving system used by the Clinton administration, Issa compared the the software to "using wooden wagon wheels" and Sony Betamax tapes. To observers of the missing emails controversy, Issa's comments seemed little more than an attempt to deflect blame from the White House for replacing a working system for archiving presidential records with an ad hoc substitute. But to IT professionals who use Lotus at their companies, Issa's remarks seemed controversial, if not downright slanderous. .....

Why isn't this pond scum in jail?

The only rep I hate worse is Rohrbacher.

I sure feel for Californians.

What about Duncan "lemon chicken" Hunter?

He is my own idiot rep.

I want to bitch slap that ass.

We have some real shitheads in San Diego.

for Governor of our fair state, oh the water works rivaled the fountains at the Bellagio. It was just classic, he got so used and then tossed aside and poor Darrell, they didn't even leave him any money on the nightstand.

I hate that bastard, too. He's a big blot on California. ASSHOLE!

But then I moved an hour away (to Riverside) and wound up with a better Rep., this new one just likes to get caught with hookers in his car!

Any enemy of Darrell Issa (BUSH JUNTA waterboy) is a friend of mine :rofl:

Issa's H.Res.965 = Condemning the actions and statements of Venezuelan president Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias.
2/7/2008--Introduced.

Expresses support for the Venezuelan people and their continued democratic self-governance. Calls upon the Chavez government to immediately implement measures to stop Venezuelan territory and weapons from being used as resources by terrorist organizations.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.Res.965:

You could modify the alarm recording to say, "Step away from the car, Darrell" :rofl:

Having a bumper sticker on my car saying "Issa, please don't steal my car"...

I think I might have put this idea online someplace at the time... Well, right before I went ahead with this and right after their first San Diego fires, my car DID get stolen, right in front of my fricken house! Probably not connected, but I wasn't wanting to tempt fate in case it was, on my subsequent car! :P

He also recently got pulled over in 2001 for speeding 90 MPH (even though he owns Viper, the car alarm company) and tried to get off by showing his congress ID card as if the officer was supposed to "bow" to him...

Here's DailyKos's timeline of his BS history...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/14/145836/417

Some notable additions to your list:



Issa is PURE SLIME!!! He needs to go!

Rubin died in prison, by slitting his own throat and then throwing himself off a balcony. There are mysteries surrounding his death.

We are all out working on Bob's campaign.

If so, use that list to re-register them.

Another strategy is analysis of where there are non-voters.
Some precincts have low registration and low voting rates. Low hanging fruit, as return on time invested goes!

Onward!

hearings where the wives and mothers were telling the committee their story? He was nasty to them. WHO WROTE THAT FOR YOU? Implying that mother of the slain young man was too stupid to have written a coherent statement on her own. When he was called out on by another committee member on his ill mannered attack, he threw a sh*t fit.

He is one nasty piece of business. Every time I see him on Maher acting like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, I remember that hearing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZBBzCLePwo

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zu90tBlkKXw

Blackwater 2007 hearings (this is what I was talking about):

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/13/issa-contractors/

...I know first hand that Issa is a party hack.

He represents not his constituents, but his party bosses.

And he perfectly embodies the values and mindset of the GOP.

And then bawled like a baby when Herr Gropenator stole the stage?

Good thing the Kennedys had a ringer Republican in CA!! LOL

after he realized that it wasn't that easy to "buy" the governorship...

VIDEO: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x135348

Top 10 Darrell Issa "Hall of Shame" Moments
Avenging Angel - Apr 04, 2008 - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/4/164527/6100/884/490329


Darrell Issa's (R-CA) stunning statement reducing the 9/11 attack on the United States to a "simple" plane crash is just the latest outrage from the execrable California Republican. After all, the one-time accused car thief turned car alarm magnate attacked the families of dead Blackwater contractors, accused Valerie Plame of perjury and played a vital role in purging a U.S. attorney, just to name a few others. Yet less than five years after he cried like a baby while announcing his withdrawal from the California governor's race, Darrell Issa mysteriously remains a force in American politics.

Here, then, are the Top 10 Moments from Darrell Issa's Hall of Shame:

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hate Issa.

He is such a total shit4brains.

He just happens to represent what my red county of San Diego is all about.

Sad.

I guess he needed a little pat on the back after yesterday,
and who better that the co-conspirator in chief?

What a canned event. It took quite a while before they quit applauding after every sentence!!
When he turned to torture and human rights in Cuba, the audience fell rather silent! I wonder WHY??

when Bush goes to hide in S. America he takes Issa with him --- Why stop there? They can take Duncan Hunter and Brian Bilbray too so Hunter can hold the holy book of his choosing while target practice is performed.

Working from a script of deceptions, as usual!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTo1pqowhTc

Issa: Green Party Contribs Show Blackwater "Non-Partisan"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ew2X-9KHRA
House Hearing on Blackwater Security Firm in Iraq, October 2, 2007

Iraq Troop Surge Debate : Darrell Issa - proSurge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfEmiMROzI0

Electoral college measure resuscitated?
Kevin Yamamura - October 22, 2007 - http://www.sacbee.com/102/story/447954.html


Two Republican political consultants are trying to revive an initiative to change how California's electoral votes are tallied in next year's presidential election, seeking support from major GOP donors including Rep. Darrell Issa, who helped finance the 2003 gubernatorial recall.

Sacramento-based consultant Dave Gilliard, an Issa adviser, is spearheading an effort to collect at least 600,000 more signatures by mid-November for an initiative that would divvy up California's electoral college votes by congressional district.

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The richest member of Congress might not be able to buy his seat again!

except that I would rather have in Washington than here! The man is a rodent.

or was I hallucinating (possible--dental surgery)

acknowledging his support for a loyal follower in the Corrupt Bastards Club.

Ozone standard squeezing BR
GERARD SHIELDS - May 25, 2008 - http://www.2theadvocate.com/columnists/washingtonwatch/19239519.html

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“On the evening before the final rule was released, President Bush rejected the unanimous recommendation of both EPA’s experts and Administrator Johnson and instructed EPA to abandon the new standard,” Waxman said.

U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Cal., served as the ranking Republican member at the committee hearing. As it pertains to the president’s action, Issa responded that Waxman’s assessment was partially right.

No doubt existed that President Bush intervened on the standard, Issa said. But he had the right to do so as the president ....

Calling a hearing to lambaste the president and the EPA smacked of “raw politics” itself from the Democratically-controlled committee, Issa said.