California's Darrell Issa loses power

[mimi85]

I would literally cringe every time I saw Issa and Eric Cantor's smug faces.

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Noah Bierman
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For four years, Rep. Darrell Issa presided over one of the highest-profile oversight committees in Congress, becoming a fixture in the national news as he took the Obama administration to task for everything from bank bailouts to corruption in Afghanistan.

Only three months ago, the California congressman unveiled a portrait of himself to hang proudly in the committee hearing room.

"Click LIKE to thank Chairman Issa for his tireless commitment to transparency and for his dedicated service to the American people," the oversight committee Facebook page suggested as the portrait was hung.

Just days after his successor took over at the helm in January, though, the new painting vanished from the hearing room. It now hangs in a private committee anteroom, beside a coat rack and a television screen.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-darrell-issa-20150321-story.html#page=1

[truebluegreen]

1. I'm sure being a laughingstock wasn't enough,

but failure to achieve the Republican agenda--i.e. an actual scandal--was.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. grand theft auto is his nickname. glad he's losing power

[zappaman]

3. I fucking hate that guy.

He sullies the state I love.
Shame on the voters who keep putting this hateful moron into office.

[NV Whino]

4. one of the nicest headlines I've seen in a while

That man is disgusting.

[DFW]

5. It's not that he was a boorish self-promoting jerk

Trey Gowdy is that, too, and the crazies still love him.

But Issa, for all his crowing, never produced, failed to embarrass any prominent Democrats (spelled H-I-L-L-A-R-Y), and never took down anyone Roger Ailes thought might be a serious threat down the road. THAT, in Republican eyes, is a sin not to be forgiven, and they didn't.

They won't force him to retire from Congress, since he's got enough money not to care. He could even mount a Glenn Beck style whacko right wing media circus to harass them in revenge if he retired involuntarily. He has THAT kind of money. No, they'll let him wither into nasty obscurity, let him do the Daily Show once or twice before Stewart retires, just to let him think he's still relevant. And then after a couple more terms, he'll find something else to do, and quietly leave the scene.

[Thor_MN]

6. Harold Watson Gowdy III is dumb enough that he thinks he is supposed to be looking for kangaroos

[El Shaman]

7. Too bad

it didn't have 'click here' to toss a virtual , rotten, tomato at the thing.

[android fan]

8. That portrait should have been headed to the nearest shredder

and then taken to the incinerator afterwards.

[sellitman]

9. His Stupid hurts

Not many as reprehenceable as Issa.

Good riddence