Boehner Rebuffs Call To Fire Issa

by JASmius

Remember Lois Lerner's most recent non-testimony on her squashing of Tea Party groups in the 2012 election cycle?  Remember how House Government Reform & Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa got tired of Double-L's Fifth-pleading circle-jerking and adjourned the hearing early?  Remember how ranking Donk member Elijah Cummings sought of Chairman Issa to ask a question and, when Issa assented, launched into partisan verbal tirade against him, which is why the chairman had Cummings' mic shut off, as was entirely appropriate?  Remember how I dismissed it as "irrelevant"?

I was right:

The Congressional Black Caucus on Thursday called for GOP Representative Darrell Issa to be stripped of his chairmanship of the House Oversight Committee — as Republicans beat back a formal resolution on the matter and Speaker John Boehner voiced support for the California congressman.

"Mr. Issa is a disgrace and should not be allowed to continue in a leadership role," Representative Marcia Fudge, the Ohio Democrat who heads the caucus, wrote in a letter to Boehner.

"We strongly encourage you to take disciplinary action against Mr. Issa and force him to present himself before the American people on the House floor with an apology."Fudge also offered a resolution condemning Issa for his "offensive and disrespectful manner," but the GOP-controlled House blocked it on a 211-186 vote.

But Boehner praised Issa at his weekly Thursday news briefing.

"Darrell Issa is the chairman. He’s done an effective job as chairman, and I support him,” the Ohio Republican said.

The head of the Congressional Black Caucus is surnamed "Fudge"?  Seriously?

Apparently so.

Maybe if I change my last name to "Bavarian-Cream," I can have a successor career in politics.

What?  You think I've digressed from the subject matter of the post?  Ah, but you're forgetting to take into account the "irrelevancy threshold clause" of blogging, which states that if the topic of a post exceeds a certain level of triviality and the blogger decides to go ahead and write about it anyway, he may exhaust so many rabbit trails that even Bugs Bunny can't keep up with him.

Besides, what would you have me say?  Cummings was treating Issa in an "offensive and disrespectful manner," which is why Issa cut off his mic.  If Cummings were chairman, he wouldn't have allowed Issa to ask any questions to begin with.  This make-believe Donk scandalmongering (Oh, did I neglect to mention that Issa is white and Cummings is black?) is as much a waste of time as Lerner's filibustering was.  I happen to believe that my time is much better spent making fun of surnames like...."Cummings".

Exit questions: It's great and all that the Speaker is standing by Chairman Issa, but (1) what the hell else was he going to do?  If he allowed the minority to dictate his chairmanships, he might as well retire, go home to Orange, Ohio, and find some general store front porch to sit on.  And (2) if he fully supports Issa, why did he allow a vote on Fudge's risible resolution?