Elijah Cummings Smacks Down Darrell Issa Badass Style

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Wonkette's amusing but dead-on telling of this epic battle!


(Sorry I'm not posting an exerpt but every time I switch screens to copy and paste from my iPad it kills my post for some reason)


http://wonkette.com/519634/rep-elijah-cummings-smacks-down-darrell-issa-badass-style

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1. Snippet here...

Time for a new series here on Wonket! In what is the sister of Nice Time and the antithesis of Legislative Shitmuffin, we proudly introduce Legislative Badasses. These folks are fighting foolishness, generating goodness, and counteracting conservatives. Our inaugural Legislative Badass hails from the great state of Maryland and spends his days tirelessly fighting the spawn of Satan’s bunghole, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Backpedaling). We present to you Rep. Elijah Cummings. We have selected him to kick off this occasional feature because he recently sent this FUCKING AWESOME letter to Rep. Issa demanding that Issa release the full transcripts from interviews with IRS employees. While the subject matter demands something longer and more substantial than the greatest letter ever sent by a lawyer, Rep. Cummings’ missive is nonetheless a fine tutorial on How It Is Done. Let’s learn a few lessons in discursive badassery, shall we?

Sometimes political letters can be kinda boring and dry, but Rep. Cummings comes out swinging from the beginning of the letter:

As you know, on May 14, 2013—before the Committee conducted any interviews with IRS employees—you went on national television and made this serious accusation:

“This was the targeting of the president’s political enemies effectively and lies about it [sic] during the election year, so that it wasn’t discovered until afterwards.”

After making this claim, you then set out to find evidence to support it, and Committee staff began conducting transcribed interviews with multiple IRS employees over the next several weeks.

Rep. Cummings is accusing Rep. Issa of having his mind made up before the investigation even began, and of just seeking evidence that only supports his delusional claim. Because that’s how to conduct an investigation to get to the truth, right? It would be like saying that Darrell Issa is actually a cosmic turd squeezed out of Satan’s asshole and wrapped in beady-eyed human skin, and then looking for evidence that only backs up that theory (Exhibit A: beady eyes). GOP SCIENCE!

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2. Thanks redqueen!

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3. My pleasure, it is SO worth sharing!