| "The California congressman is the monster that Washington has created for our times."
So, this guy who made a stink-pile of money in the car alarm business, and had some youthful trouble with the law over auto-related liberties, gets the break he's been waiting for after Republicans win control of the House in 2010. He's given the keys to the biggest Caddie in Congress: the main oversight committee. It's loaded with everything -- subpoena power, an overhead cam worth of auditors and investigators, a hyperkinetic staff devoted to keeping shine on the boss. He's got plans, lots of plans. "But it's not slip-on-the-banana-peel-funny when one of the three main branches of a venerable democracy falls apart. In Darrell Issa, for the age of dysfunctional politics, we have the government we deserve." |
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