Sinking Like a Sunset
California Republican Congressfool Darrell Issa has written a check with his mouth that his butt can’t cash.
Issa was elected on the thinnest of margins in the country. And guess who is sawing off that margin:
An internal poll by Issa’s campaign showed a nearly 10-percentage point drop in his favorability ratings between mid-October and early December — and that one likely reason the lawmaker’s image took a hit was because of his support for President Trump.
The best part is that the internal poll was obtained after a judge ruled against Issa in a $10 million lawsuit Issa filed against his Democratic opponent the day before the November 8th election. Issa claimed that his opponent …
… had doctored a newspaper quote to make it appear that the representative did not support providing healthcare to victims, first responders and others involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The lawsuit said that the commercials unfairly made Issa appear as a “deceitful, uncaring person and corrupt” lawmaker.
The judge said quotes used in the 9/11 advertisement was “substantially true.” Issa and a bipartisan group of lawmakers had voted down a bill seeking further benefits for the victims.
So the judge, after looking at the evidence, pretty much said, yeah, Issa is a deceitful, uncaring person and corrupt.
Hell, he could have just asked me.
And now Issa will have to pay his opponent’s legal bills for the lawsuit.
Now there’s a smile.
Ms. JJ that is worthy of 3 smiles. CA make my day and share your Democratic candidate available to beat arsonist and all around scoundrel Issa in 2018.
Kathryn Allen to defeat Chaffetz in Utah.
Jon Ossoff to fill Tom Price’s vacant GA seat.
CA Dem of your choice to take out Issa.
That’s 3. 21 more needed to take control of the House. Jane and I are committed to support six. Let’s get this done together.
1The man who came within inches of unseating Issa was Col Applegate, and I supported and will support his campaign against that corrupt, evil Issa. Hope this time he wipes up the floor with Issa. Congress doesn’t need scumbags like ole Darrell. May he have a surperb case of ciggers where the sun don’t shine.
2The good news is rare but always welcome.
3@ Jane & PKM:
Yes, yes, yes although i am not in Kathryn Allen’s district, i will do all i can to help her flush jason chappedlips down the drain.
4google:
5HH interviews RL re: DI.
RL is excellent reporter for New Yorker which is a carefully
fact checked magazine. RL has been on Issa’s trail for a while.
Worth the read then go from there….
@Juanita Jean Herownself-Friend of mine calls that complex alligatorhummingbirdosis or itis. a case of Alligator mouth and hummingbird @$$. Whatever it’s called it could not happen to a more deserving person, unless it happened to either the tRUMP or Paul Ryan.
6For years I have heard nothing but bad news about Darrel Issa. Why does he keep getting by a primary and a general election. Are the voters in his district comatose or is it that they aren’t voters? He should be selling shoes or working the late shift at McDonald’s.
7Hooray! I supported Applegate and would do so again. He seems to be a pretty direct and thoughtful guy. And Issa is so twisted you could use him as a screw, except he’s so slimy he’d slip right out. So Cal used to be far-right John Birch territory, but is changing rapidly. Seeing someone take Issa down would delight me almost as much as watching “B1-Bob” Dornan taken out by a Hispanic woman (Loretta Sanchez). In Orange County no less. But my list of disgusting Republicans is long, seems like they just keep crawling out from under cow patties somewhere.
8Micr: The late shift at McD’s?! Heaven forbid! I’ll order a McDouble, he’ll give me a McSingle and swear it’s a McTriple!
And Issa has to pay someone else’s legal bills? Yeah, that’ll happen. Will he pay the way Trump doesn’t, ur, does?
9I have a 6 or 7 year old step granddaughter, and a 1.5 year old granddaughter. I’m trying to teach them not to use the word “hate” when describing their emotional feelings for other persons. “Hate,” I tell them, “is a powerful and hurtful word and you should find other language to describe how you feel about people, movies, whatever.” The unspoken reason being considerations of Kharma. Unspoken because the concept of Kharma takes a bit of maturity to understand. But even though I caution my beutyful little girls as described, I stlll find myself in a world where “hate” is the only word I can find to describe how I feel about Issa and Trump and all those other no good sunsabitches Republican politicians.
10California has been solidly blue for some time. We have not had a Repub in state-wide office for years.
However, we do have our rural districts and they are every bit as radical right as anyplace in Southern climes. And every bit as misinformed, which is why people like Issa keep winning.
The silver lining of having the Repubs make such a HUUGE, mean-spirited mess of our federal government is that California could turn ultramarine in the near future. We will know when Dems starting winning in rural districts.
(Or when one of my right-wing friends starts to see the truth about what’s really going on.)
In 2018 Dems/progressive/liberals need to truly believe that what comes first is winning elections. The Repubs already know this, which is why they keep winning despite being a minority.
Maybe Trump will be the focus we need. We’ve never had a better bad example.
11When someone like Issa keeps on keeping on, and this time around almost didn’t by a mere whisker, it is time to check the voting machines or whatever for flat out corruption. I am one jaded voter. I spent decades in Michigan and just this last presidential election, the R’s flat out stole 75,000 votes from the Flint and Detroit areas. According to the R in charge in that area, the votes were “flawed”. Yeah. Sure. The corners were bent? See what I mean?
12George, I feel exactly the same about “hate.” On all counts, exactly.
13Ugh. The sun can’t set too soon on Darrell Issa. Next time he’s up for election, I hope his opponent wins in a landslide. This judgement should help with that.
14My remarks above got posted without the first lines. I son’t know how that happened but it makes no sense as posted.
15Google:
Lizza has been all over Issa in several New Yorker articles.
It just happend again. Part of what I wrote is missing.
16Try again
google:
“darrell issa ryan lizza hugh hewitt”
Don’t feel badly; I’ve had entire posts disappear, and the IT tech can’t find them!
Oh,well, I’ll just enjoy the other great posts here!
17Sorry Mama, but hell just froze over when Mark Amodei (R-Nev) announced he is voting against RyanNoCare. In all honesty, Mark probably hates it because it doesn’t give enough tax cuts to the .01% or hasten the deaths of children and the elderly fast enough. But for the moment he claims he will be voting no and pretending he cares about Medicaid for those in need.
18@George in Lee County#10- I know how you feel about the word “hate”. I feel pretty much the same , to the point I’ve given up on linguistic and logical efficiency and instead of the single word use a multi-word phrase dislike intensely.
19I want the snacilbupeR to have the albatross of this monstrous bill hanging around their necks. Thus, “RepubliCare.”
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