The Unhinging of the Conservative Mind: ODS
Darrell Issa Edition
Well, we know from the Clinton administration that a certain fairly sizable segment of the contemporary GOP will say virtually anything about a Democratic president, so long as it's negative. It doesn't have to be true...it doesn't have to be anywhere near the vicinity of the truth...it doesn't even have to be vaguely plausible.
Here's Darrell Issa's contribution: turns out that the Obama administration is "one of the most corrupt." He apparently didn't care for the flack he got for his claim on the Limbaugh show to the effect that this administration was "the most corrupt in history." That was so obviously false as to be laughable, especially given what even the politically oblivious know about the Nixon and Reagan administrations. So Issa apparently elected to throttle back a bit and make the reference class as vague as possible. (Most corrupt...ever? In recent memory? Since February 2009? What?) The new version of the claim is still so groundless as to be laughable...but I suppose it is weasley and vagued-up enough to at least be able to pass the laugh test on Limbaugh...
Since Issa is the incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, any of you out there who thought that the GOP might have become a bit less tribal, irrational, petulant and destructive since the Clinton administration, are apparently going to be disappointed. One worries that the GOP will return to power in the House having (like the Bourbons) learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
So hold onto your hats...the investigations should be coming fast and furious soon enough.
Darrell Issa Edition
Well, we know from the Clinton administration that a certain fairly sizable segment of the contemporary GOP will say virtually anything about a Democratic president, so long as it's negative. It doesn't have to be true...it doesn't have to be anywhere near the vicinity of the truth...it doesn't even have to be vaguely plausible.
Here's Darrell Issa's contribution: turns out that the Obama administration is "one of the most corrupt." He apparently didn't care for the flack he got for his claim on the Limbaugh show to the effect that this administration was "the most corrupt in history." That was so obviously false as to be laughable, especially given what even the politically oblivious know about the Nixon and Reagan administrations. So Issa apparently elected to throttle back a bit and make the reference class as vague as possible. (Most corrupt...ever? In recent memory? Since February 2009? What?) The new version of the claim is still so groundless as to be laughable...but I suppose it is weasley and vagued-up enough to at least be able to pass the laugh test on Limbaugh...
Since Issa is the incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, any of you out there who thought that the GOP might have become a bit less tribal, irrational, petulant and destructive since the Clinton administration, are apparently going to be disappointed. One worries that the GOP will return to power in the House having (like the Bourbons) learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
So hold onto your hats...the investigations should be coming fast and furious soon enough.
posted by Winston Smith at
2:05 PM
2 Comments:
Actually, Issa's first comment was that Obama was the most corrupt President in recent memory. Then, I suppose, after someone intelligent pointed out to him that that statement was first order assholery, he started walking it back.
James
The Obama administration needs to prepare to treat all of these investigations with the mockery and contempt that they deserve - Ollie North, only honest.
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