It Depends on What Your Definition of “Issa” Is
There’s nothing like kicking off the new year with cedar fever to remind you that, despite your best intentions, you are at the mercy of the elements. I have been breathing out of one-quarter of one nostril for the past 72 hours. That said, I remain quite optimistic about 2011. I was inspired by The Fighter, which I saw yesterday, because if an emaciated Christian Bale can kick his crack habit long enough to help his baby brother in the ring, well then surely I can stand up to a few cedar trees. Hey—I’m a survivor.
With the new year comes the new Republican House and the new Republican speaker and the new chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which oversees partisan investigations of no inherent value, Darrell Issa. Appearing on Rush Limbaugh, the California congressman called the Obama administration, and I quote, which is why I’m putting it in quote marks, “one of the most corrupt” administrations of all time. Finally, someone who’s not afraid to appear on the Rush Limbaugh show and tell Rush Limbaugh exactly what he wants to hear.
But who is Darrell Issa? I’m glad I asked. According to Wikipedia, he’s the richest member of Congress who made his fortune as CEO of Directed Electronics, a manufacturer of automobile security products. Including the Viper car alarm. Yes, thatViper car alarm (which uses Issa’s voice). The snake is not the scariest part of this commercial. The white pumps are.
January 3rd, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Jar Jar Binks tinks issa goin to be an impeachment this year!
January 3rd, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking committee!
January 3rd, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Yes, its tree sperm season once again. Ashe juniper, aka mountain cedar, and namesake for Cedar Park, cedar fence, Cedar Creek, and, when mature, habitat for endangered tweety birds. Sinus? I don’t sign anything until I or my attorney reads it first. It is a relative of the juniper used to flavor gin, so there’s that. They use the female parts though.
Don’t inhale yellow air.
January 3rd, 2011 at 7:26 pm
God, I just want to slap that ignorant bastard.
January 3rd, 2011 at 9:02 pm
This guy is a total scumbag: ex-con who went to jail for stealing cars and then made millions selling…car alarms! Also suffers from chronic cases of verbal diarrhea and mental constipation.
January 3rd, 2011 at 9:16 pm
WTH takes the early lead on quote of the year!
Don’t eat the yellow snow, don’t breathe the yellow air….saffron stocks plummet on day one of WS.
issa spelled backwards is ignorant bastard.
/PL, you need to irrigate your nose: look online….it’s pretty funky.
January 3rd, 2011 at 10:15 pm
PL is going to kill me (we asked, but didn’t wait for a response), but since y’all are talking about it, we’re live blogging the Bach over on PODs…
January 3rd, 2011 at 10:15 pm
Oh, wait, you’re talking about Issa! See how similar they are?
January 4th, 2011 at 9:42 am
Issa is a tool, looking for publicity, i.e,, Issa is a fool.
January 4th, 2011 at 10:10 am
He’s just trying to create fear so he can put a Viper car alarm on every window in the White House.
January 4th, 2011 at 11:31 am
Alan -
Get real. He is not an “ex-con who went to jail for stealing cars.” His record consists of a misdemeanor conviction more than 25 years ago for which he was fined $100. It was over a failure to register a firearm. His mistake was living in a police state that even required registration of firearms.
January 4th, 2011 at 5:08 pm
This is what I read:
A retired Army sergeant claimed that Issa stole a Dodge sedan from an Army post near Pittsburgh in 1971. The sergeant said he recovered the car after confronting and threatening him.
Issa denied the allegation and no charges were filed.
In 1972, Issa and his brother allegedly stole a red Maserati sports car from a car dealership in Cleveland.
He and his brother were indicted for car theft, but the case was dropped.
That same year, Issa was convicted in Michigan for possession of an unregistered gun. He received three months probation and paid a $204 fine.
January 5th, 2011 at 10:34 am
Issa to corporations: Dear fox, the farmer has a henhouse, how would you modify the henhouse to benefit you?
GOP Asks For Deregulation Wishlist
http://slatest.slate.com/id/2280066/entry/4/
January 5th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
back when issa was a state rep. and started appearing on maher’s show, i though he was a total loon.
but i saw him on same show recently, and in the context of the level of tea party looniness that has emerged in recent years, he actually seems more or less reasonable.
January 6th, 2011 at 2:09 pm
omg! You’re a genius! How did you find that commercial? I looked and looked and couldn’t find it. I wrote this but I have to edit it and link to that! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katie-halper/darrell-issas-ominous-pas_b_805091.html