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| Republicans flex muscle |
| 2010-11-08 |
[Emirates 24/7] Republicans flexed their new-found political muscle on Sunday by promising a string of investigations into Barack B.O.Obama's administration, as the president vowed to make some "corrections." By seizing the House of Representatives in Tuesday's mid-term elections, Republicans gained the chairmanship of powerful House committees that can seek to embarrass the president by calling top aides to testify in public. "I'm going to go after a lot of things and I'm going to do a lot of investigating," Representative Darrell Issa, who is set to take control of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, told Fox News Sunday. Former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush faced epic showdowns with the House committees after crushing mid-term defeats in 1994 and 2006 respectively. Issa said it was possible he would probe allegations that the White House offered to give Democratic Representative Joe Sestak an administration post if he stayed out of a Senate primary race. Sestak won the primary against senator Arlen Specter, the White House's preferred candidate, and ended up narrowly losing to Republican nominee Pat Toomey. Other targets of the committee probes could be Obama's health care reforms, the Justice Department's failure to probe alleged voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party, and the handling of the BP oil spill. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 The only real investigation i want to see is them driving a stake into "global warming." |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2010-11-08 16:23 |
| #8 Just tell "President" O'Bumble that there will not be another penny spent on them until ALL his "Czars" appear before Congress for vetting, just as all other appointees must. These people make policy decisions; they need to be vetted by Congress. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2010-11-08 16:19 |
| #7 Cybersarge is exactly right. If the Repubs waste a lot of time on investigations the independents who voted them into the majority are going to leave in droves. Cut spending!!! All else is fluff. |
| Posted by: remoteman 2010-11-08 16:17 |
| #6 I hate to see the GOP waste two years investigating what is at worst bad management decisions. Refuse to fund the things they don't agree with, work on shrinking the government, and stop wasting the countries time and money. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2010-11-08 15:39 |
| #5 Congress holds the purse strings. Just refuse to futher fund those Czars. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2010-11-08 12:37 |
| #4 sounds like a plan |
| Posted by: bman 2010-11-08 11:32 |
| #3 Congress should just present Obama with a list of "czars", with instructions that they be fired, or they will be subpoenaed before congress. And if they refuse to appear they will be cited for contempt of congress. And those citations will be forwarded to the US Atty for D.C., who *must*, in that circumstance, forward a request for an indictment to a grand jury. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-11-08 09:22 |
| #2 promising a string of investigations into Barack B.O. Obama's |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-11-08 05:59 |
| #1 I promised I'd never watch Obama on TV, however I'd break that promise and watch his impeachment. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-11-08 00:03 |