GOP lawmaker looks to increase scrutiny of Obama

[GabrielWithoutWings]

Already President Barack Obama's chief antagonist in Congress, Issa, R-Calif., would take over the main House investigating committee and control its probes of the White House and the federal bureaucracy if Republicans win back the House.

One liberal Democrat, Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota, predicts that Issa (pronounced EYE'-suh) will use subpoena power as chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee to conduct a "witch hunt in an effort to bring down the Obama administration."

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I could be wrong but this is starting to smell like 'we'll be looking for any reason whatsoever to bring impeachment to the table' all over again.

As an aside, look at some of those comments. Wow...

 

[T-Dawg]

As an aside, look at some of those comments. Wow...

Yeah, I find the same kind of crap in comments for just about any article. Not sure what it is, I guess since Yahoo's a popular site, it represents the average every-day American. May I have mercy on their souls...

 

[Smoke]

Yeah, I find the same kind of crap in comments for just about any article. Not sure what it is, I guess since Yahoo's a popular site, it represents the average every-day American. May I have mercy on their souls...

We're surrounded by morons.

 

[linwood]

We're surrounded by morons.

My recent posts with some of our foreign friends here lead me to believe they really don`t have any idea how insane the people of this country have become.

I can`t blame them, if you would have described the intolerant ignorance of todays average American to me ten years ago I would have laughed at you.

It`s not funny now.

 

[Copernicus]

If, for some reason, the most hysterical mainstream news media fantasies should come true, and the Republicans take control of both branches of Congress, the Tea Party nutters will not be running the show. The folks who will take real control of that branch of government--the Boehner/McConnell types--will hold real power. They probably will not pursue the nuttiest ideas that freshmen representatives and senators campaigned on, and most of the nuttiest are probably less nutty than they appear. Not all politicians are 100% honest about what they really intend to do, once they take office. At that point, the Republican political calculus will turn to what will win back the White House in 2012. If voters are stupid enough to elect nutty Congressional representatives and senators, then they probably won't be overly concerned that the nutters failed to carry out their agenda. So I expect the Republican leadership to resist shutting down the government over unpopular fringe ideas.

My most cynical assessment is that the Republicans sweep in with relatively large numbers. The next two years will basically get nothing done to solve any of our serious problems. In 2012, disgusted (but fairly stupid) American voters will once again do the same thing, expecting different results. They will throw out the (this time Republican) bums in Congress and elect a Democratic Congress with a Republican president. Whatever they do, they re-affirm George Bernard Shaw's cynical observation that democracy is a system of government by which people get a government no better than they deserve. :areyoucra