Darrell and Arnie
| Thu Feb. 19, 2009 2:19 PM PST
Steve Benen informs me that Rep. Darrell Issa (R–Lemmingstan) has suddenly become concerned over the proper retention of White House emails:
Issa, easily a #2 seed on my bracket for Most Ridiculous Member of Congress competition, also asked the White House to respond to a series of additional questions about the administration's email archiving. He said the answers are due in two weeks.
The irony, of course, is that Issa couldn't care less about an actual scandal regarding White House emailing archiving. Bushies lost untold thousands of emails, with no archive or backups. Indeed, the former president's team deliberately created a "primitive" email system that created a high risk that data would be lost — there was "no automatic system to ensure that e-mails were archived and preserved."
Hmmm. Only a #2 seed? I guess the competition is pretty tough in this category. Here in California, though, I think we'd bump him up to #1. After all, he was the bright boy who decided it would be cute to use his car alarm fortune to fund a recall of Gray Davis less than a year after he was elected, thereby making Arnold Schwarzenegger governor and turning a dismal economic mess into a complete catastrophe. No Darrell, no Arnold. That's his legacy to the Golden State.
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encourage himn to pursue it...
Submitted by ericf on Thu Feb. 19, 2009 2:51 PM PST.
...with the condition the investigation go as far back as the e-mail system has been non-functional. Bush inherited a system from Clinton that met archiving requirements. The bushies took it apart. I thought they were just hiding their e-mail until Obama's staff got in there and found the system really was that bad. Still, Bush didn't find it that way, the problem was raised a long time ago, and it didn't get fixed despite years to do so. So yes, pursue it. If any Bush e-mail can be recovered, we might find the smoking guns for several scandals.
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I disagree
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu Feb. 19, 2009 3:13 PM PST.
No f'in way Darrell Issa is #1 most ridiculous. What about Dana Rohrabacher? Radanovich? It's like the unholy trilogy of the CA GOP right there.
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu Feb. 19, 2009 3:32 PM PST.
Thought he made his money in car alarms. Minor point. Remind me occasion when he gave up running for another office and ended up weeping! crying! in front of the press. What was the office he had to give up? Issa is a man who should stimulate any scientist to search new definition for cretinism and how it exists in Rethugian brain chemistry because their neurons are different.
Cry Baby Darrell
Submitted by Capn Phealy on Thu Feb. 19, 2009 7:36 PM PST.
When Ahnuld announced (on the Leno show) that he was, indeed, entering the race for Governor during Total Recall, Issa took a day or two, then withdrew from the race he himself had made possible through funding the recall drive. At his press conference, Issa broke down in tears, and everyone everywhere knew it was because he thought the race would be his, but he knew he couldn't beat the Terminator.
The fact that he's been re-elected to Congress indicates an amazing lack of intellectual fortitude in his district.
do you mean...
Submitted by agum (not verified) on Thu Feb. 19, 2009 3:36 PM PST.
proper retention of juvenile criminal records?
It's not a cell phone fortune, it's a crappy car alarm fortune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN91uGDKXXw
Very easy to remember given his youthful participation in an insurance scam where he and his brother stole their own car.
Issa's almost as pathetic as he is execrable. The Republicans were always planning on running Arnie. They used Issa's millions to get the recall on the ballot, and then threw him away. Publicly he didn't seem to have any ill will about it, but he must have been seething, much like the snakes slithering around the car in yet another cheesy old Viper car alarm ad...
The guy has
Submitted by rhinoman (not verified) on Thu Feb. 19, 2009 3:57 PM PST.
Chutzpah. Lots of it. He'll either go far or get consigned to the wingnuts. Will be interesting to see.
Seriously, though, Kevin - you think Gray Davis would have solved this? Really? Seriously?
He made his fortune in car alarms.
Submitted by Cazart on Thu Feb. 19, 2009 4:04 PM PST.
THAT, my friends, is Issa's legacy. Something screechy and expensive and useless that makes life just a little bit worse for everyone.
