Yet, he gets elected. Go figure...

His district's demographics are changing, though. Even with blatant redistricting actions, he may be open to a well run (D) challenge.

Good luck with getting him out. They are mostly Romney types.

Our coastal liberal Encinitas ( including Cardiff by the Sea& Leucadia) got swept up into Issa's district in the last redistricting, so I'm pretty familiar with his boundaries. La Jolla (home of the Romney's) is in a demographically Dem district,tho you'd almost never see that in the voting record of Scott Peters.

But you're spot on about the "car elevator" mentality. Issa reps Rancho Santa Fe whose self-entitled rich residents currently in the news for defiantly INCREASING their water usage 9% (drought cuts for them were targeted at 34%) and loudly bemoaning the unfairness to them of the "forced browning" of their multiacre estates and their golf courses. By comparison neighboring Encinitas water district cut it's usage 24% (target 28%) which was the second best voluntary drought response in SD County

Votes red. It makes me crazy that they actually increased their water usage. I wonder what they'll do when they turn the faucet on and nothing comes out.
They could easily install turf or something else that is esthetically nice and use NO water. The entitlement attitude of these people is infuriating.

As it happens, I lived in Issa's district some years ago.

It may seem hard to believe now, considering how his career in the Congressional GOP vaulted out of all proportion; but he was actually a nearly-unknown underdog in the 2000 GOP primary for the open seat, which everyone from the OC Register to your average Limbaugh-listening, anchor baby-bemoaning church lady assumed would go to State Senator Bill Morrow.

Just before the primary though, Darrell Issa placards began appearing in all the major South Orange County thoroughfares -literally every ten feet- with the picture of a square-jawed, chiseled-chin All-American type with a Cheshire Cat grin.

It was a photo of another man.

This may seem like a trivial detail; but remember that this is South Orange County, where the Aryan aesthetic is still the currency of the realm among many of the district's Republican voters (Joseph Mengele is said by some researchers to have lived and practiced in Laguna Beach sometime in the '60s). Had voters realized at the time that the enterprising Mr. Issa is of Lebanese heritage, I can assure that -barring some scandal on Morrow's part- he would have lost. The rest, as you know, is history.

work in it.

That goes for Gowdy, Issa, and the rest of the tea and republican party.

When I think of the good they could be doing with their time, and they go out of their way to NEVER do good and ALWAYS do harm



Shit i wish everybody else would get pissed off

but there is some good to what ISSA and the repub fringe is doing but the good is only for a small group of people in the world that benefit financially when the poor and the middle class have less power to determine their own future, which is what many repubs work day and night for

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iconic figure going.

Issa spelled backwards is ...


ASS-I

Maybe fortunately, since that is the way he acts.

Sometimes there is simply no justice.

... ARE pissed off, but too many have bought the bullshit that their votes don't matter, which is exactly what the Republicans WANT them to think.

This is closest to a real investigation yet and if HC comes out clean which I am sure she will I hope the democrats get assertive and push back at those heartless repubs who have been trying to brainwash the masses. I still feel charged after seeing HCs speech on tv yesterday. They have learned a lot since the 08 failure, turn Bill loose on those bastards lol

he didn't recycle....

Why are they still even talking about this?

And it ended up in a trash can where all the rest of this hoax's reports belong.

It didn't get any pickup elsewhere in the media, so it was quickly forgotten.

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/92/darrell-issa-terrorisms-manchurian-candidate/

August 1, 2003, - 5:28 pm
Darrell Issa: Terrorism’s Manchurian Candidate

By Debbie Schlussel

I’m a proud conservative Republican from Michigan, but I’m appealing to Californians of all political stripes not to support the recall of Gov. Gray Davis.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista)–funder of the recall effort and the only announced candidate to replace Davis–might be the contemporary, real-life version of Frank Sinatra’s “Manchurian Candidate.” Instead of communists, Issa’s allies are radical Islamists and supporters of terrorism against Americans, Israelis, Christians and Jews.


In a short political career, Issa’s statements and actions consistently defend terrorists, terrorist groups and terrorist sponsor states.

Saudi Arabia’s longtime lobbyist, James Gallagher, contributed to Issa’s campaign in November 2002, and Issa tried to overturn key classified evidence portions of President Bill Clinton’s 1995 counterterrorism bill. Issa is also credited with “declawing” the Patriot Act.

Then, there’s Issa’s dance with Hezbollah, an organization that is on the State Department’s terrorist list and one of the largest components of Al Qaeda. In the 1980s, Hezbollah–which means “Party of Allah”–murdered more than 260 U.S. Marines while they slept in Beirut and tortured to death Col. Richard Higgins (in 1990) and CIA attache William Buckley.

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Christian on his father's side, and Mormon on his mother's.

There's no nexus between that ass and Hizb'allah, which are Shi'a and historically funded substantially by Iran. A lot of people went to visit Assad around that time (to include Speaker Pelosi). No one in the WH griped, because -- I suspect -- they were carrying messages of a diplomatic nature along with the whole grip and grin business.

Also, notwithstanding who Assad may have given money to, for geopolitical reasons (he has always had his eye on Lebanon), he's an Alawi (and they are a weird brand of faith, Shi'a-ish, but a real Heinz 57 in their belief system).


There's not a lot of love between the Sunni-Wahhabi clowns in SA and the Shi'a leadership in Iran...both think that they deserve control of the holy places in MandM, and the House of Saud has a firm grip on that franchise.

This is conspiracy theory crap. A bridge too far...and I really dislike Issa, so it's uncomfortable to defend the asshole from these charges, but this is just absurd. He's sufficiently a jerk without making stuff up about him. Who is that lunatic writing this stuff? The GOP replacement for Coulter?

...then go play with it in the street.

This man got a way with criminal activity ...he's a goddamn thug...

he need to get into the GOP Clown Car!

How did he do that without tearing Issa's full-body condom?

Are we as a culture degenerating into barbarians like Issa ?

WTH can't they find someone to run against him.

https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/94C72D6D7B1222694360139902976_3738bdaa23f.4.1.12358899256151828830.mp4?versionId=ZLrI.rCCDrSlc01.J6EZETcoS3WChIar

issa is a blight on our government. This disgusting little swine needs to be cut loose.

Issa is stepping on toes, maybe trying to tell him how to run the investigation.

Both Gowdy and Issa want to get Benghazi in the news.

as if to say, "It's not you, dear friend, it's the rules I have to enforce, and I'm so sorry...."

in Rancho Santa Fe are very similar in their judgment and morality to D. Issa...the real face of the GodOffalParty...

...J Giels Band

If you're not involved with a deposition, you can't just crash it.

Or better yet;

Former Congressman and Convicted Felon Darrell Issa arrived at Leavenworth To Begin Sentence

Perhaps he'd be a lot more well behaved if he had to be afraid of those secrets being made public and him being put in prison along with his car thief brother!

Maybe he should stamp his feet.

republi-CONS. And their self-presumed "entitlement" to rule. darrell issa obviously suffers from it. He's no longer chairman but still somehow thinks he has some sort of entitlement to be there anyway. And more or less still preside over it. His almighty "rights", after all...