Darrell Issa to Rahm Emanuel on Stimulus/Porkulus Criticism: “Back Off! This Isn’t Chicago…”
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 4, 2009
Chuck Schumer's and the Obama administration's 'Let them eat pork!' mentality | Created by Tennyson Hayes
The alpha dogs are rearing up, and ranking member Darrell Issa of the Oversight & Government Reform of Republicans is standing up to head-honcho Chicago bully, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who has threatened members of Congress for questioning the outrageously mishandled, taxpayer-funded Obama stimulus/porkulus package that a majority of Americans did not want.
Issa is pretty much calling a Chicago thug a Chicago thug. The guy has backbone and a pair of those “man things.” Finally.
From Michelle Malkin: Issa goes Rahm-bo on Rahm:
Following reports that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been orchestrating an effort to intimidate members of Congress and Governors who raise legitimate concerns regarding the effectiveness of the stimulus, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter to Emanuel saying “While this type of scare tactic may work In Chicago, it will not work to intimidate me or other Members of the United States Congress.”
“I and others have dared to bring these facts to the attention of President Obama, the Congress and the American people,” Issa wrote. “You’ve unfortunately reacted by once again resorting to the playbook of the Chicago political machine.”
Last month, Politico reported that Emanuel had “launched a coordinated effort to jam” Senator Kyl and other Administration critics… “[A]fter seeing Kyl and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) again paint the legislation as a failure on Sunday talk shows, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel directed that the letters from the Cabinet secretaries be sent to [Governor] Brewer, according to two administration officials.”
Issa noted, “The fact that the letters were coordinated by you to maximize the level of intimidation is supported by the timing, structure, and content of each letter. Not only were the four letters all sent the day following Senator Kyl’s remarks, but they were also remarkably similar in tone and sentence structure.”
Read more of Issa’s press release: Press Release: Issa to Emanuel: Back Off!
More on this developing story and more on the wasteful stimulus package:
Darrell Issa, American Spectator: TARP and the Demands of Democracy
The Weekly Standard: Know-Nothing-in-Chief – There’s no evidence Obama has even a sketchy grasp of economics.
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Darrell Issa to Rahm Rahmbo deadfish Emanuel and his scare tactics – Back Off!
NObama Blog: Issa to Emanuel: Back Off!
Ztower: Taking On The Thugs – Now This Is Change I Can Believe In!
Let Freedom Ring: Congressman Warns Rahm: This Isn’t Chicago
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Majority of Americans Demand ‘Cancel the Porkulus Package Now’ and Like a Wild Little Kid in a Candy Store: Obama Spending $18 Million to Redesign Recovery Website and Soft Tyranny: Mark Levin Interview on Sean Hannity’s Show (video) and VP Biden Says to Expect “Scamming & Waste” of Stimulus Money on His Watch: Billions at Stake, Bring in Wile E. Coyote
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Goodtimepolitics: Most Liberal States Are Least Free Says Study
Gateway Pundit: Dem Leader to GOP: If You Don’t Vote to Bankrupt Country With Libs You’re Unpatriotic
The Daily Bail: President Obama’s Budget Cuts Visualized (Video)
RedState: Tim Geithner: Foul-Mouthed Thug
Hispanic Pundit: Obama’s Proposed Power Grab
Clinging to G & G: Note to Obama: Drop the Jimmy Carter routine. It’s a proven failure.
Sister Toldjah: Figures: PrObama MSM spins bad economic news as good
Michelle Malkin: Be careful: DOT inspector general challenges O’s stimulus spending and Cornyn to Obama: Disband the Internet Snitch Brigade and This is what mob rule looks like and When you can’t stand the heat… and Dodd and Obama: Corrupt birds of a feather; Update: Resisting subpoena; Dodd has prostate cancer and Grass-roots revolt in Austin, TX: “Just say no!” to Obamacare; Pennsylvanians boo Sebelius & Specter, “How can you manage health care when you can’t manage Cash For Clunkers?” and The 60th anniversary of 1984 and Stimulus…or smut-ulus? and The more he talks about nationalizing health care and spending more money… and Obamacare: Code Blue and Barack Obama speaks the truth! Update: Mayo not okay-o with Obamacare and New unemployment numbers: Quick, blame Bush! and Tea Party Watch: Protesting the cap-and-tax cramdown and After the “Special Master of Compensation” and The biggest, most magical makework program ever!
Hot Air Green Room: Obamacare would already be law, if not for you stupid Americans
Weasel Zippers: Rasmussen: Americans Want Another Stimulus Plan About as Much as Bawney Fwank Wants to Have Sex With a Woman…(Update) Right on Cue Dem Calls For Second Stimulus…
Confederate Yankee: “The Obama Administration is the Most Fiscally Irresponsible in the History of the U.S.”
Burt Prelutsky, Big Hollywood: Time to Get Mad as Hell
RomanticPoet’s Weblog: Biden With the Biggest Understatement of the Year: ‘We misread economy’
Jim Blazsik: “We Misread How Bad The Economy Was” – Joe Biden
Stop The ACLU: Obama Tanks In Ohio
VotingFemale Speaks!: Obama-Pelosi Declare WAR; Demonizing Health Industry; Warning, Socialist Demons At Work
Matthew Vadum, American Spectator: DNC Organizing to Destroy U.S. Healthcare
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Beatles, ‘I’ll Tax the Heat, I’ll Tax Your Feet’: Britain’s a Mess with Its Punishing Taxes, We’re Not Far Behind
Frank DeMartini, Big Hollywood: Obama’s Six-Month Report Card
The Sundries Shack: Fool Us Once, Shame On Us. Fool Us A Dozen Times, You’re Barack Obama.
La Shawn Barber’s Corner: Why Barack Obama is Overrated (from 2006)
Free Republic: Socialism Coming Back To Haunt U.S. and Beware of Obamanomics
Gateway Pundit: British Sensation Daniel Hannan: “It’s Common Sense When You Are in Debt You Spend Less – Anyone But a Politician Can See That”
The American Spectator: Obama’s False Choice
Jim Gilmore, Human Events: Obama’s ‘New Socialism’
Rasmussen Reports: Number Who Says U.S. Heading in Right Direction Slips to Lowest Level Since February
CNSNews.com: Joe Biden: ‘We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt’
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