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- MorganMghee, on 12/18/2008, -5/+167I'm not interested in anything the GOP has to say until they shut down and re-structure. The next Bush in line is talking openly about forming a GOP shadow government... get a clue. There are lots of rational, AMERICAN Republicans out there willing to do the right thing, go find some and send those other smithcommajohns packing.
- kemp34, on 12/19/2008, -0/+115Blind partisanship is a mental and moral defect.
This applies to any party. - Linguo, on 12/18/2008, -14/+114I love this. The GOP is a burning ship.
- Ysabetwordsmith, on 12/19/2008, -3/+68Fancy that. I imagine the dialog went something like, "ZOMG somebody's gotta keep tabs on that liberal kook!" Talk about shutting the barn door after the horse's ass is out. I'm all in favor of White House oversight, but it would've been nice to have that while the *real* kook was destroying the country.
- SSPink, on 12/19/2008, -1/+59It really sucks that reasonable, morally grounded conservatives in this country no longer have a political party.
- Obermeister, on 12/18/2008, -21/+77Just wait and see. The republicans will get their way, as always. The democrats never met an issue they don't like rolling over for.
- sunburner, on 12/19/2008, -4/+51Maybe they should be considering becoming actual conservatives again first.
- jlfb, on 12/19/2008, -5/+45Scumbags. LOL thanks GOP! Thanks for your complete lack of shame or anything resembling a sense of irony. Wow, it just NEVER ENDS.
- Dumbledorito, on 12/19/2008, -2/+42Ever notice how for the past two decades that every horror that Republicans claim would happen under a Democratic presidency (corruption, spying on citizens, unconstitutional acts, stonewalling investigations, making government bigger, etc.) actually comes to pass under their time in office?
I'm reminded of the old adage, "choose your enemies carefully, for you will become them." When you make a strawman for a foe, don't be surprised if you start leaking hay yourself. - flannelback, on 12/19/2008, -0/+37I bailed on the Republican party when the Neo-Cons took over. The idea of running up huge debt and pandering to the rich sickens me. We need a third party badly.
- grungegbunny, on 12/19/2008, -9/+39LMAO whatever your political views are, you have to admit Republicans are complete morons.
- futurefile, on 12/19/2008, -4/+29The unabashed subserviency to the party right-wing ideology never ends. Such shameless hypocracy.
- inactive, on 12/18/2008, -5/+29I want to bury this comment.
alas.
*sigh* - RogueGenius, on 12/19/2008, -4/+24There's a shock. After 8 years of watching, laughing, abiding, and partaking in the gutting of the economy, the constitution, and the lifespans of our young shoulders, suddenly, they are concerned about what the president does. Hell, he might even help the people who elected him, rather than line the pockets of their rich buddies. Outrageous!
*****. I hope those ***** never come to power again in my lifetime. - lapdogs, on 12/19/2008, -1/+19So Darrel Issa is suddenly "concerned" about Congress doing it's job of White House OVERSIGHT!!!
Hey Issa, where the hell have you been these past eight years while Bush destroyed this country and its Constitution????????
Nothing too serious in your mind, I guess!!!! - Aadain, on 12/19/2008, -2/+18As a Democrat I'm 100% in favor of oversight, even over Obama. The whole point of this article is to point out the complete hypocracy of what the Rep. are doing. When Bush was in office, committing war crimes and erroding the Constitution, they didn't think any oversight was needed. Suddenly, after loosing the White House, they are totally for oversight. I'd bet my left leg that if McCain had won, they would have continued their pattern of ignoring oversight since it would have been a Republican in charge. Do oversight any everyone, not just those from the other political party.
- fmaxwell, on 12/19/2008, -2/+18@evilesttoast: America was made great by liberals, not conservatives. It was liberals who fought to abolish slavery, give blacks civil rights, give women the right to vote, bring electricity to rural areas, provide schooling for all Americans, provide Medicare for the elderly, land a man on the moon... the list goes on and on.
What have conservatives brought us? Opposition to all of the above along with McCarthyism, attacks on teaching science in science class, assassinations of liberal leaders like John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy. They have given us multiple unnecessary wars, constant attempts to codify their religions into law (which is why they are called the American Taliban), increased taxes on those least able to pay them and lower taxes for the richest, and the outsourcing of American jobs. They have pushed for the catastrophic deregulation of the airlines, cable companies, and the gutting of the CAFE standards. The best thing that could happen to this country is for conservatives to stop voting. - Khast, on 12/19/2008, -4/+20Hmm..pattern? Democrat as a president = oversight....Republican as president = abolish oversight in the name of "freedom"
I really do think there should be oversight, but what the GOP is trying to do is not "Oversight", but control... - WhiteHatTrick, on 12/19/2008, -5/+19It sucks even more that reasonable, morally grounded conservatives and liberals in this country no longer have a political party.
- ichbinladen, on 12/19/2008, -1/+15Does everyone remember that Issa is responsible for the California recall election? I only bring this up to mention the fact that the slimey little lizard cried like a baby on TV when he found out no one wanted him to be governor.
- yuravian, on 12/20/2008, -0/+13SSPink, it's so true. While I disagree with them, I can totally respect and understand the ideals of conservatives, but the elected officials calling themselves Republicans these days are rarely, if ever, anything but neocons. It's rather sad really.
- Jordan117, on 12/19/2008, -2/+15Hey, Republicans, you're jumping the gun a bit here. You're not supposed to start caring until 12 noon on January 20th, 2009.
- mobling, on 12/20/2008, -0/+13My Republicans friends.
Why did you destroy my country? Why? - Midtowner, on 12/19/2008, -5/+17As much as the GOP sucks, single party rule is worse.
- ThsGuyRightHere, on 12/19/2008, -7/+19Translation: Issa will be running for president in 2012. Good luck *****, you'll need it.
- kronix2, on 12/20/2008, -1/+12So you bailed during the Reagan administration? Running up huge debt and pandering to the rich has been the Republican raison d'etre since Reagan, after all.
- principle, on 12/18/2008, -7/+17Good is benign. Evil is virulent. This is how it is.
- richirwin, on 12/20/2008, -0/+9That's exactly what I did Kronix2. Near the end of the Reagan era, I realized that modern-day republicans are anything but fiscally conservative.
- itinko, on 12/19/2008, -0/+9well, Republicans could have voted it down or filibustered... but no.. they wanted their cut ;)
- flannelback, on 12/19/2008, -2/+11The best lack all conviction,
while the worst are full of passionate intensity...
Yeats - flannelback, on 12/19/2008, -1/+10Let's see...
Balanced budgets, out of foreign business,
take care of your own country. That should do it. - dcmjzero, on 12/19/2008, -3/+11Oversight is always a good thing no matter who is in power.
- Godlike, on 12/19/2008, -4/+12Well if the GOP dies something else will take it's place. Probably two things, one for actual conservatives and another party that can represent the interests of the completely ***** retarded who seemed to jump on the republican bandwagon either because they can't stand the thought of people who aren't even them doing what they want with their own bodies or, more likely, because they saw other people acting just as stupid as they normally do that they could vote for.
Seriously, it's your own fault republitards. I don't like the dems either but when those neocon ***** started pwning the ***** out of your party you should have stepped up instead of sucking evil ***** in fear of the dems.
Oh well, maybe the libertarian party has an actual chance in the next election because the American republican party is no. *****. more.
Forget parties and VOTE THE CONSTITUTION! It's always right. - ErickStevenson, on 12/19/2008, -1/+9Wow so they JUST WOKE UP? Where the hell were they for the past eight years? Let me guess, next thing you know they will be saying we need more evidence to start a war?
- TrueXtremeIcon, on 12/19/2008, -1/+9Wow, you really came off as a complete bootlicker in that post.
- NotAChickenHawk, on 12/19/2008, -2/+9Fine. Then they can start now. Today. And use this next month to make up for the last 7 years 11 months of turning the other cheek.
- uncleosbert, on 12/20/2008, -0/+7you must not remember this from two years ago:
"In 2006, after the Republican-led Senate rejected an increase to the minimum wage, Democrats, who had just come to power in the House with a slew of freshmen, vowed to block their own pay raise until the wage increase was passed."
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/with-economy-i ... - JazLive, on 12/19/2008, -4/+11Excellent! ONLY Republicans, who are NOT in line for prosecution should be allowed to participate ;)
- newfrickinshow, on 12/20/2008, -0/+6I would like to point out that Valerie Plame was more than seeking out WMD, her job was in fact trying to locate and track down nuclear materials. When Bush says the worst thing he can imagine is a terrorist setting off a nuclear bomb in downtown New York, that's what she was charged with preventing.
I'm sick of being accused of being unpatriotic by a bunch of jerkwads who will quickly throw aside American principles and morals in the name of keeping themselves in power. The fear card you've been playing since 01 has lossed its flare, and now you're turning to the new-era version of the No Nothing party, which has coalesced as calling experts who disagree with you as elitist, denouncing fact in favor of faith, and pretending to be more patriotic and christian than "the other guys." Mr. Loneranger85, in the immortal words of one of your heroes Dick Cheney, "Go ***** yourself." - palidine40, on 12/20/2008, -0/+6Loyal opposition doesn't oust a ***** spy (on the US side) out of spite towards her husband and risk our ability to locate WMD's in terrorists hands through her spy network. Which is a huge hypocritical thing to do when you are claiming left and right that WMD's getting into the country are your primary concern.
BTW- did a liberal run over your puppy or do you normally show that much hatred in your blogs and comments? - catbeller, on 12/20/2008, -0/+6And acquitted. Give it up.
- UltraDavid, on 12/19/2008, -3/+9oh yeah i'm sure we'll all just completely forget the lessons of the past 8 years as soon as obama's sworn in
- malex, on 12/19/2008, -0/+6Quotes or it didn't happen.
- bsmang, on 12/20/2008, -0/+6Lol, LoneRanger. What a short memory you have... You've already forgotten that it was in fact the president who has been "damaging the country" and that the "opposition" was simply hoping to put a stop to it - or at least to slow it down.
I just hope that Obama turns out to be a good president instead of another Bush. We can't afford another evil/greedy president without at least one good one in between. - morcheeba, on 12/19/2008, -0/+5It's bad politics, and no one should put up with it.
- KevekKerinth, on 12/19/2008, -7/+12scum.
- treehugger87, on 12/20/2008, -0/+5I am no fan of the Repugnant Republicans, but it is my most sincere hope that the Republicans who remain DO make a big stink about White House oversight. It's their job, it's how this political system is supposed to work and it is in the best interest of our country and the future of Democracy.
- tinkafoo, on 12/19/2008, -3/+8TOO LATE, *****
- Godlike, on 12/19/2008, -1/+6The people who were in power in the Bush era were more concerned with being in power and maintaining that power than they were about serving the interests of the American people. The neocons that really loved them were just spewing jingoism and enjoying being lied to.
The people finally seem to understand this, minus the 40% of the population that is utterly retarded or can't/won't/don't care. - FreddieD, on 12/20/2008, -0/+5if there's one thing that pisses me off, it's when people type on digg stupid *****
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