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Here’s how we can get it – Send the GOP to the House this November.

Robert Costa of National Review explains how a Republican win for control of the House would put one man in a unique position to demand answers from the White House. Better late than never…

If Republicans win the House this fall, Rep. Darrell Issa will wield the majority’s sharpest investigative tool: the subpoena pen.

“Cabinet officers, assistant secretaries, directors — I will be able to take on everybody that the president hires and relies upon; the people who tell him that everything is fine,” pledges Issa, the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in an interview with National Review Online.

For months, Issa, a California Republican, has been delving into allegations of bureaucratic abuse and political foul play, prepping for the committee chairmanship should the chance come. A relentless critic of the Obama administration, he frequently takes to cable news to highlight his growing pile of files. Everything from the alleged job offers made to Democratic candidates by White House emissaries, to the private-sector ties of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, has caught his eye. [snip]

If he wins the chairmanship, Issa will be able to hire a slew of investigators. He says he hopes to build a team with a “healthy lack of respect, if you will, for bureaucrats. . . . I want them to assume that bureaucrats will always paint a rosy picture and to dig deep. . . . I’d look for the kind of people — talented attorneys and other investigators — who have the skills to do the research and find the failures in government.” [snip]

“Ultimately,” Issa says, “I view what we do as holding the president to the standard that he sets.” The West Wing is on notice.

For a guy who spent two years on the campaign trail talking about transparency in government, his record on the subject sucks which means one of two things – he was lying or he’s too incompetent to get the job done. Either way, Darrell Issa sounds like just the guy to make sure the important questions get asked and answered.

Read more opinion at Memeorandum.

I say you’d never know it because there are no protests. There’s no screeching and howling about how Bush Obama is shredding the US Constitution. There’s no full page ads from Move On in the New York Times. There’s no noise about it at all. Isn’t that interesting?

You’d almost think that all those protests of the Patriot Act really had nothing to do with the legislation at all. One might even get the impression that all the noise in the past was just an excuse to bash Bush. How else can anyone explain this?

After a wave of news about attempted domestic terror attacks, Democrats facing a tough election year quietly voted this week to extend the Patriot Act legislation that many of them had decried under former President George W. Bush.

The House passed a one-year reauthorization of the Patriot Act Thursday night 315-97, just a day after the Senate moved the bill on a late-evening unanimous voice vote.

With the law facing a sunset date of Feb. 28, the Senate opted to vote for the extension of three crucial provisions of the act rather than opening debate on a revised bipartisan plan passed by the Judiciary Committee in October that would have imposed stricter privacy safeguards.

“In the end, it became non-controversial,” Senate Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) told POLITICO. “[There was] the growing concern about increase on the pace of attacks on the homeland… and frankly, I think the Patriot [Act] got a bad name under the Bush Administration.”

You think?

How stupid does Nancy Pelosi think you are?

This stupid:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) defended Congress’ work on a healthcare bill Tuesday saying the process has displayed historic transparency, just as C-SPAN mounts an effort to open the negotiations.

C-SPAN wrote a letter to congressional leaders Tuesday asking that TV cameras be allowed to film negotiations to reconcile the House and Senate versions of healthcare reform legislation.

But Pelosi said Congress has already been transparent throughout the process.

“There has never been a more open process for any legislation,” Pelosi said at a press conference.

One has to marvel at Nancy Pelosi’s stunning ability to speak such unadulterated bullshit with a straight face.

Everyone knows that the crafting of the house and senate bills took place behind closed doors with no input from anyone but Democrats.

The American people know that both bills were passed on weekends when Democrats hoped no one was watching.

And finally, everyone remembers that Obama promised this process would be completely open and televised on C-SPAN which it wasn’t.

For Nancy Pelosi to stand there and claim otherwise is further proof that this administration and its cohorts in the house & senate are just doing what they want to do with no regard for public opinion.

It’s hard to decide which is more insulting, the fact that she’s lying or the credit she gives our intelligence.

What a difference a year makes. Right now, Nancy Pelosi is angry that her pet project of elitist Democrat power grab health care reform isn’t going through, so she’s pushing for House Democrats to work through their August recess.

This reminds me of a little incident one year ago. Let’s review, shall we?

Nancy Pelosi in August of 2008:

“Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House, turned off the lights and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices.”

“Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders opposed the motion to adjourn the House, arguing that Pelosi’s refusal to schedule a vote allowing offshore drilling is hurting the American economy. They have refused to leave the floor after the adjournment motion passed at 11:23 a.m., and they are busy bashing Pelosi and her fellow Democrats for leaving town for the August recess.”

Nancy Pelosi in August of 2009:

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday said she’s open to keeping the House in session through the August recess to pass its healthcare overhaul.”

“I think 70 percent of the American people would want that,” Pelosi said. “I want a bill.”

“That stance contradicts House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who said Tuesday that he didn’t see any point in staying into August if Democrats haven’t reached consensus on a bill by then.”

I sincerely hope that at the exact moment August recess begins, John Boehner and every other House Republican walk to the light panel, shut off the lights and walk the hell out with their heads held high.

What in the fuck is going on in this country of ours?

Yesterday in Afghanistan, seven REAL American heroes were killed.

“Bombs and bullets killed seven American troops on Monday, the deadliest day for Afghanistan in nearly a year—and a sign that the war being fought in the Taliban heartland of the south and east could now be expanding north.”

Meanwhile, the US House of Representatives – you know, the idiots who passed the 1,200 page cap and trade bill without reading it – are currently crafting legislation to honor Michael Jackson.

“We reported recently about a resolution Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Tex.) introduced to honor Michael Jackson and referred to, oddly enough, the House Foreign Affairs Committee.”

“The legislation lists Jackson’s accomplishments in endless detail, from his #1 hits to the details of his charity work. At the conclusion, the legislation resolves that Congress.”

(1) recognizes Michael Jackson as a global humanitarian and a noted leader in the fight against worldwide hunger and medical crises; and

(2) celebrates Michael Jackson as an accomplished contributor to the worlds of arts and entertainment, scientific advances in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, and global food security.

There is something very wrong with our representatives in Washington DC and they all need to be voted out of office.

THROW ALL THE BUMS OUT IN 2010!

Are you surprised that Obama’s “Energy Czar” hasn’t read the bill?  I’m not, considering that none of the members of the US House of Representatives read it either. Right before most of them voted for it.

More and more Americans are becoming pretty pissed off that these massive bills are being passed without anyone reading them.

There’s even a new website called JUST READ THE BILL ALREADY!

What was that little thing Obama promised about bills being posted online for five days? Well Obama did say he promised CHANGE.

“Five months into his administration, Mr. Obama has signed two dozen bills, but he has almost never waited five days. On the recent credit card legislation, which included a controversial measure to allow guns in national parks, he waited just two.”

It’s funny when the New York Times acts surprised to find out that Obama is a bullshit artist.

Be sure to check out Michelle Malkin’s piece on the eight most wanted Republican Representatives in America.