ARGGGHHH!!!! Republicans want Congress to start investigations again!

Good Lord! We all remember Ken Starr and the end-less investigations of the Clintons, right?

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Apparently the Republicans that want to take over the House, unlike the people of the country, remember them fondly.

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An article in Politico (which treats politics like baseball and is by and about insider news) quotes Darral Issa (a nincompoop from California I am all too familiar with) and a Texas Republican - both of which would chair the appropriate committees.

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Republican staffers say there won’t be any self-destructive witch hunts, but they clearly are relishing the prospect of extracting information from an administration that touts transparency.

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And a handful of aggressive would-be committee chairmen — led by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Lamar Smith (R-Texas) — are quietly gearing up for a possible season of subpoenas not seen since the Clinton wars of the late 1990s.

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Issa would like Obama’s cooperation, says Kurt Bardella, spokesman for the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. But it’s not essential.

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“How acrimonious things get really depend on how willing the administration is in accepting our findings [and] responding to our questions,” adds Bardella, who refers to his boss as “questioner-in-chief.’ Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41506.html#ixzz0xp3N4AME

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Goodness, didn't they learn anything from how much we hated investigations that are done for political reasons.