Top 10 Obama Administration Investigation Targets

[boomerang]

Well, Congress is back in session and is rolling up its sleeves. As I understand it, this article does not necessarily represent the agenda of Representative Issa, however he has stated his intentions to pursue some of these.

It's a pretty complete list I feel with some controversial items within it. I could probably let item 7 slide. Item 10 is of course very controversial. My position is that it still seems to be an issue for many. So, let's just get those records (birth, college transcripts, etc.) out in the open and put it to bed forever. The man is halfway through his term, let's clear the air so we never have to hear any of this again. Number 3 is a real hot-button for me. I would like to see the full force of government behind that investigation.

Anyone have any items they wish to add?

From this article

Rep. Darrell Issa (R.-Calif.), the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has signaled he will conduct numerous oversight investigations of the Obama Administration. Here are the Top 10 areas ripe for investigation for Issa and other congressional Republicans:

(1) ObamaCare: Any measure that restructures one-sixth of the U.S. economy bears scrutiny particularly when passage of the bill required legislative bribes such as the Louisiana Purchase and Cornhusker Kickback. To paraphrase Nancy Pelosi, now that ObamaCare has passed, let’s see exactly what is in it — and how it got there.

(2) Stimulus: The American people deserve to know what they got for the $787 billion stimulus package that Obama signed in February 2009, including how much money was spent frivolously to publicize the legislation. And where exactly are all those jobs that the administration claims were “created or saved?”

(3) Freddie and Fannie: Previous attempts by congressional Democrats to get to the bottom of the 2008 financial meltdown conveniently overlooked the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. How much of the housing crisis was due to financial donations going to Democratic officials, who overlooked financial transgressions at the agencies so long as mortgages flowed to unworthy credit risks?

(4) Wikileaks: Someone in the administration needs to explain how the lowly serviceman who served up secret documents to Wikileaks could have access to such a large amount of classified material. And were any actions taken to shut down Julian Assange in the months after the initial disclosures and before the embarrassing leak of State Department cables?

(5) Climate science: Considering the Obama Administration used concerns over global warming to advance its cap-and-trade energy tax and, via the EPA, regulate carbon dioxide emissions, a hearing on how climate science is impacting public policy is in order.

(6) ACORN: How much federal money was sent to ACORN and what was it used for? That this vote-stealing, partisan group of thugs received tens of millions of taxpayer dollars is an outrage.

(7) Oil spill response: So many questions over the Obama Administration’s response to the Gulf oil spill last April: Why was the response tardy, and did the administration slow local efforts through unnecessary red-tape? Was science politicized with the administration’s rosy estimates over how much oil was left? Were there legitimate concerns or did politics come into play with the decision to impose an offshore oil drilling moratorium?

(8) Justice Department: There are concerns that politics is running amok in the halls of the Justice Department. From undermining national security by trying enemy terror combatants in criminal courts to unequal enforcement of civil rights laws, Attorney General Eric Holder’s shop should be scrutinized. A good place to start is the department’s handling of the New Black Panthers’ voter intimidation case that was dropped.

(9) Czars: While other Presidents have named advisers without congressional approval, Obama has taken the appointment of policy czars to a new level. With appointments going to people like former Green Jobs czar and Marxist Van Jones, Congress needs to know who has been given authority beyond the scope of the Senate’s confirmation process.

(10) Obama’s presidential eligibility: This one should be easy to settle once and for all. Even Hawaii’s Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie says President Obama’s birth records should be released. Let’s see what the White House does if a congressional subpoena is issued. For a President who promised transparency, there are an awful lot of his personal documents still under wraps.

 

[dmcowen674]

Wow, where was the concern when Bush was destroying the country?

This list clearly shows how much the Republicans hate the country especially when someone they hate in the Oval Office.

 

[Thump553]

Welcome back to the Congress of the 90s with their Holy Inquisitions. Do those clowns think that is either what Americans want or what America needs, or will we see these for what they are-purely politically motivated maneuvers?

 

[UberNeuman]

Fuck that noise - where's the jobs!?! Where's the repaired economy!?!

\enjoy your gop dog and pony show...

 

[Red Dawn]

Next thing you know they'll be dragging Ken Starr out of retirement.

 

[Bowfinger]

Next thing you know they'll be dragging Ken Starr out of retirement.

That's the first thing that popped into my mind. It's the petty, destructive crap like this that drives me ever-farther from the Republican Party. It only reinforces my belief that while both parties are bad for America, overall the Republicans are clearly the greater evil. Issa is among the worst of them, a shameless partisan hack.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

That's the first thing that popped into my mind. It's the petty, destructive crap like this that drives me ever-farther from the Republican Party. It only reinforces my belief that while both parties are bad for America, overall the Republicans are clearly the greater evil. Issa is among the worst of them, a shameless partisan hack.

lol, like you were ever even close to the R party anyway.

You two can cower in fear all you want and whine about Starr but clearly you aren't looking at reality. Just because it's reported and it fits the media template of the Rs "attacking" BHO and the leftists doesn't mean it's something new or that the left didn't do the same thing when they gained control.

I don't happen to think the list is all that bad. Sure, get rid of 10 but the others are fine at face value. You leftists had the gov't all to yourself for a while and now is the time to make sure things didn't get destroyed - especially since the Senate won't move any good legislation coming from the R controlled House.

 

[her209]

I don't happen to think the list is all that bad. Sure, get rid of 10 but the others are fine at face value. You leftists had the gov't all to yourself for a while and now is the time to make sure things didn't get destroyed - especially since the Senate won't move any good legislation coming from the R controlled House.

LOL...

(caps)

 

[IBMer]

(1) ObamaCare: Any measure that restructures one-sixth of the U.S. economy bears scrutiny particularly when passage of the bill required legislative bribes such as the Louisiana Purchase and Cornhusker Kickback. To paraphrase Nancy Pelosi, now that ObamaCare has passed, let’s see exactly what is in it — and how it got there.

He didn't even quote her correctly.

(2) Stimulus: The American people deserve to know what they got for the $787 billion stimulus package that Obama signed in February 2009, including how much money was spent frivolously to publicize the legislation. And where exactly are all those jobs that the administration claims were “created or saved?”

Partisan waste of time. The information is there, there is no need "investigate" this is completely political.

(3) Freddie and Fannie: Previous attempts by congressional Democrats to get to the bottom of the 2008 financial meltdown conveniently overlooked the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. How much of the housing crisis was due to financial donations going to Democratic officials, who overlooked financial transgressions at the agencies so long as mortgages flowed to unworthy credit risks?

There are many more than Fannie and Freddie that need to be investigated but they can't blame the democrates for those so again completely political.

(6) ACORN: How much federal money was sent to ACORN and what was it used for? That this vote-stealing, partisan group of thugs received tens of millions of taxpayer dollars is an outrage.

Maybe he didn't hear that Acorn is gone and that the "investigation" was proven false and heavily edited.

(7) Oil spill response: So many questions over the Obama Administration’s response to the Gulf oil spill last April: Why was the response tardy, and did the administration slow local efforts through unnecessary red-tape? Was science politicized with the administration’s rosy estimates over how much oil was left? Were there legitimate concerns or did politics come into play with the decision to impose an offshore oil drilling moratorium?

More partisan hackery instead of looking at things that need real attention.

(9) Czars: While other Presidents have named advisers without congressional approval, Obama has taken the appointment of policy czars to a new level. With appointments going to people like former Green Jobs czar and Marxist Van Jones, Congress needs to know who has been given authority beyond the scope of the Senate’s confirmation process.

Maybe he should actually look at the stats of how many Czars Bush appointed.

(10) Obama’s presidential eligibility: This one should be easy to settle once and for all. Even Hawaii’s Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie says President Obama’s birth records should be released. Let’s see what the White House does if a congressional subpoena is issued. For a President who promised transparency, there are an awful lot of his personal documents still under wraps.

Are you seriously fucking kidding me? They keep using clever language like "Lets put this finally under wraps" ITS been under wraps, they are refusing to believe in evidence that has already been presented.

 

[DesiPower]

#10 should basically be #1... he just launched is 2012 campaign a few days back...

 

[IBMer]

You leftists had the gov't all to yourself for a while and now is the time to make sure things didn't get destroyed - especially since the Senate won't move any good legislation coming from the R controlled House.

Wow 2 years, thats a long time. Lets investigate the 6+ that republicans had. Oh wait they didn't investigate Bush for going to war on false terms did they?

 

[trenchfoot]

Well, if all of that comes to pass, I can see where the repubs are headed: As with Clinton, their top priority is to lop off the head of the beast, because as with Clinton, the repubs could not/cannot field a contender as strong or stronger than Obama. So, they would fill the airwaves with the usual divertive distractions and lies to cover the lies they are telling their own base.

More importantly though, the repubs have learned from the 2010 elections that their campaign of outright lies, deception, misinformation and rabble rousing actually worked for them and that the swing voters they so desperately need are gullible enough to be fooled time and time again.

Their formula is so simple, and their ability to control the dialogue is so effective: Always be on the attack, do not let the Dems take the initiative by deeds. Selling false promises and telling lies to strike fear in the gullible is far more effective at seizing control of the government.

The only problem the repubs have though, is that once they gain control, their self-serving agenda comes to the forefront, the damage it causes becomes too obvious to hide and they lose control again and again.

However, each time the cycle repeats itself, the repubs are leveraging the path the Nation takes further and further in their direction, each time further weakening the economic strength of the middle class and the poor.

 

[techs]

Fuck that noise - where's the jobs!?! Where's the repaired economy!?!

\enjoy your gop dog and pony show...

They're in fucking China where the Republicans sent them.

 

[boomerang]

Darrel Issa is the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Launching these investigations if he chooses to do so and if he does at all, is his job folks. It won't detract from the other courses of business that Congress takes on during its tenure. As chairman, he would be negligent in his duties to sit on his hands and do nothing.

I agree that programs aimed at jobs and the economy have been complete and total failures during the first two years of Obama's term. The question now is, if Republicans implement tried and proven methods for turning these two issues around, will we hear nothing but whining from the left? For those that are slow, that's a rhetorical question.

If nothing else, I see no problem with throwing a little fear into our so-called leaders from time to time. It at least gives the impression that they're policing themselves.

 

[IBMer]

As chairman, he would be negligent in his duties to sit on his hands and do nothing.

This is doing nothing. How about investigating campaign corruption or real issues. Like instead of just Fannie and Freddie how about all of wall street for their mortgage fiasco. How about investigating why the housing boom was even able to happen and find out how to keep it from happening again.

Also, the only thing missing from this list is an investigation on whether or not Obama is a muslim and whether or not Obama is the antichrist.

 

[Bowfinger]

lol, like you were ever even close to the R party anyway. ...

lol, like you have any clue whatsoever. There's a reason I'm on so many Republican mailing lists. I've always had mixed ideologies, but there was a time when I had a notable lean to the right (back when I was more greedy and less experienced with life). I've increasingly parted ways with the modern Republican Party as it's drifted from its traditional conservative values. Your problem is you have such a simple-minded, black and white partisan view of the world that you see everyone who disagrees with you as a bleeding commie-lib. This is just a reflection of your own fringe position and bears little connection to reality.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

lol, like you have any clue whatsoever. There's a reason I'm on so many Republican mailing lists. I've always had mixed ideologies, but there was a time when I had a notable lean to the right (back when I was more greedy and less experienced with life). I've increasingly parted ways with the modern Republican Party as it's drifted from its traditional conservative values. Your problem is you have such a simple-minded, black and white partisan view of the world that you see everyone who disagrees with you as a bleeding commie-lib. This is just a reflection of your own fringe position and bears little connection to reality.

lol, ironing considering you suggest I have no clue...

Yeah, you keep on thinking that you are enlightened and that others are the ones that are "fringe" and "black and white". You are good for a bit of entertainment as always though!

 

[Sinsear]

Fannie & Freddie I would like to see; the rest seem like a waste of time.

 

[Red Dawn]

Fannie & Freddie I would like to see; the rest seem like a waste of time.

Wow, I agree with you.

 

[sandorski]

List of Fail. Only 4 and 7 are close to being legit. Although they seem to be a little off the mark and probably should be an Investigation of how best to prevent the repeat of those events.

 

[Pens1566]

And how many on that list were started, or only, during the bush admin?

 

[CallMeJoe]

Payback for all those frivolous investigations of the Bush Administration that the Democrats launched when they took control of Congress back in 2006?

 

[trenchfoot]

Payback for all those frivolous investigations of the Bush Administration that the Democrats launched when they took control of Congress back in 2006?

I don't recall "all those investigations" that the Dems launched that you consider frivolous, so if you wouldn't mind, could you post some up? thx

I do recall however, the Dems and Obama deciding not to investigate some of the more well known allegations brought against the repubs, especially those concerning Halliburton and other issues related to contracting work done in Iraq. Their stated reason was that it was much more important to concentrate on the business of fixing what the repubs broke ie - the economy, etc.

 

[Bowfinger]

I don't recall "all those investigations" that the Dems launched that you consider frivolous, so if you wouldn't mind, could you post some up? thx

I do recall however, the Dems and Obama deciding not to investigate some of the more well known allegations brought against the repubs, especially those concerning Halliburton and other issues related to contracting work done in Iraq. Their stated reason was that it was much more important to concentrate on the business of fixing what the repubs broke ie - the economy, etc.

I'm thinking that was his point, that he was being sarcastic.

 

[trenchfoot]

I'm thinking that was his point, that he was being sarcastic.

Aha! My bad.

thx:thumbsup: