Rep. Darrell Issa politicizes Russert’s death.»

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/17/issa-russert/

Rep. Darrell Issa politicizes Russert’s death.»

This afternoon, the House of Representatives took up a resolution honoring the life of Tim Russert. Following speeches by several speakers who issued heartfelt condolences, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) brazenly exploited Russert’s death by cynically transitioning his own remarks into yet another push for more domestic oil drilling:

ISSA: We are going to miss Tim Russert when it comes to the people on both sides of the issue of why we have $5 oil — $5 gasoline and $135 oil. I think Tim Russert would have been just the right guy to hold people accountable, who would talk about the 68 million acres that are, quote, inactive, while in fact 41 million are under current lease and use and are producing millions of barrels of oil and natural gas a day. <…>

So, Madam Speaker, I am going to miss Tim Russert because this debate is too important not to have a fact-oriented, unbiased moderator who could in fact bring to bear the truth that we need to have.

Apparently, Issa’s heart is overcome with fondness for Big Oil.

Watch it at link~

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/17/issa-russert/

[AlCzervik]

1. Issa is such scum, it's hard to believe he still has his seat.

[blondeatlast]

7. We could power about a dozen cars with a month's supply of Issa's hair ointmnet.

Scummy as it gets. Ick.

[AlCzervik]

8. cars he stole.

:D

[blondeatlast]

9. ZOMG--I forgot all about that!

:rofl:

[aquart]

2. Watching Darrell Issa should only be done with a federal warrant

for the purpose of gathering evidence.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

3. What an ass clown

At Issa's funeral someday, I hope his family rents out space on his coffin so it looks like a Nascar stock car.

[Zomby Woof]

4. Exactly what I expected

The Repubes are pushing for arctic drilling, using speculator-driven high prices as their justification. To use someone's corpse for this purpose is just as vile and pernicious as one can expect of fascists like Isshole.

[malaise]

5. A Worst person in the world is coming up n/t

[blondeatlast]

6. #1, and appropriately so. nt