From San Diego GOP Chairman Tony Krvaric
Courage Or Cowards? Exposing The Left’s Fear Of Congressman Issa
Wednesday, March 2nd
As you probably know, local congressman Darrell Issa is the new chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and is about to shake up the “business as usual” culture in Washington D.C. on behalf of hard working taxpayers and the American people by rooting out waste, fraud and abuse.
Needless to say, this has the far left in this country rather concerned and they have thus launched an unprecedented campaign against him and the important work he is about to embark on. This is how the modern left operates; personal attacks and sham organizations and websites.
Last week, the San Diego Union-Tribune published an OpEd [cough, cough] by Rick Jacobs, the chair of the “Courage Campaign” – which on its website calls for “a new era for progressive politics in California” – that was nothing but a work of fiction and a string of incoherent rants against the congressman.
To set the record straight, I submitted a letter titled “Courage or Cowards?” and I invite you to read it below. We are fortunate to have a great congressional delegation in congressmen Hunter, Bilbray and Issa and I’m proud of the work all of them are doing, fighting on behalf hard working Americans.
To learn more about congressman Issa’s work, visit oversight.house.gov, check out the committee’s YouTube channel, follow him on Twitter @DarrellIssa and connect with him on Facebook. And why not give his office in D.C. a call at (202) 225-3906 and let him know we appreciate his efforts.
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Blessings,
Tony Krvaric
CHAIRMAN (volunteer)
PS. 2012 will be Battle Royale in America as we decide what kind of nation we want to be. Will we continue down the path of EuroSocialism or will we restore America and once again be a beacon of hope, freedom and opportunity in the world? Your local Republican Party is getting ready for the fight. Are you?
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There’s an adage: “If they’re attacking you, you must be doing something right.” Ever since the run-up to the November elections, there has been a concerted effort to attack Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, the new chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
For months, leading Democrats and liberal interest groups have devoted an extraordinary amount of time and resources to convince the American people that the agenda pursued by Issa will somehow damage America. Despite their best efforts to make Issa their boogeyman, the voters responded resoundingly and put Republicans in control of the House of Representatives and entrusted the power of the committee gavel to Issa.
A recent work of fiction penned by the self-proclaimed “Courage Campaign” (“Chairman Issa: Oversight for whom?” Opinion, Feb. 24) egregiously distorted the facts about the oversight and reform agenda being led by Issa.
The missive attacked Issa for having the audacity to reach out to job creators about impediments to job creation. Mind you, this is the exact same thing the Obama administration is doing. If you go to oversight.house.gov, you will see that all of the responses are available in a downloadable and searchable PDF.
Of course, when the administration solicited the opinions of the Business Roundtable, held a CEO summit, hired a new chief of staff to build better relationships with private industry and ordered a governmentwide review of regulatory barriers to job creation, the Courage Campaign was noticeably mute.
Perhaps the campaign’s members would be better-served doing their homework first before leveling baseless accusations that are easy to disprove.
The second criticism had to do with heeding the president’s call for publicly disclosing meetings. The ironic thing is the very day the campaign’s commentary appeared in the Union-Tribune, a story broke headlined: “Lobbyists: White House sends meetings off-site to hide them.” We’re still waiting for the Courage Campaign’s reaction to this latest revelation.
The next distortion was an attack on the first hearing held by Issa that focused on a report issued by the inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. This hearing included as witnesses the Treasury Department and the inspector general. It’s worth noting that Issa courageously led the effort against the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street.
It’s also worth noting that an almost identical hearing was held by the Democrat-controlled committee last year when the inspector general released his statutorily required report and the Courage Campaign didn’t seem to have a problem then with the content of the hearing. Now, all of a sudden, it takes issue with it.
Issa then partnered with Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan to introduce legislation to eliminate the continued funding of a program that, according to the inspector general, “has had the most devastating consequences” for “distressed homeowners on Main Street.” Apparently, the Courage Campaign is better informed than the inspector general because the organization saw fit to attack Issa over it.
The Courage Campaign writes that Issa has offered no “accountability for the financial industry heavyweights who preyed upon the middle class and drove our economy off the cliff.” Yet Issa’s first subpoena as chairman was to uncover all the details of Countrywide’s infamous “Friends of Angelo” program that offered sweetheart deals to people in high places.
Issa’s investigation already has uncovered the alarming fact that more than 150 people at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac received VIP loans, all the while turning a blind eye to a subprime mortgage market that was on the verge of a meltdown.
It is very clear that the Courage Campaign is nothing more than a left-wing activist group intent on furthering the smear campaign targeting Issa. It’s insulting that these groups have the audacity to distort and demonize someone who has been part of the very fabric of our community for decades.
Congressman Issa has promised San Diegans an oversight agenda that will be vigorous and vigilant. That will target waste, fraud and abuse in government. That will work to hold the administration accountable and to the highest standard of transparency. In case the Courage Campaign missed it, that’s exactly what the American people have asked Issa to do.
Comments 1
The illusion driving these attacks on Rep. Issa is a belief that he will be intimidated, discouraged and will then back off.
As a famous cartoon character used to say, “He don’t know me very well, do he?”
I had the privilege of working in 3 of Mr. Issa’s election campaigns, including his critical first House victory in 2000, he does NOT get intimidated or discouraged. Never has, never will.
My sports analogy is to Hall of Famer (and California native) FRANK ROBINSON. Dodger manager Walter Alston ordered his pitchers not to brush back or throw at the star outfielder, since it just made him mad, and caused him to hit more home runs. “Don’t wake up the Beast,” Mgr. Alston would tell his pitchers, and he fined anyone who broke the rule.
The Beltway Left will have to learn that lesson the hard way with GOP home-run hitter Darrell Issa.