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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Darrell Issa- 2022 Update [1]

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Date: 2022-08-29

How long will Darrell Issa's second stint as a Congressman be? Let's see if we can't make the answer to that question: "One term."

In 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of the U.S. House Representative from California’s 49th District, Darrell Issa, who remains the wealthiest man in all of Congress. Issa’s past includes being arrested for stealing a car, and investigated for potential arson in an insurance fraud scheme, and after throwing millions of dollars at a couple unsuccessful Congressional campaigns in the late nineties, he finally found his way to Washington, D.C. in the 2000 election.



Issa made a name for himself during his tenure for several years as the Chairman of the House Oversight committee, where he set records for the number of subpoenas he issued to people while leading witch hunts whenever a “scandal” broke in the conservative news media. Sadly, in calling hearings over Solyndra, the IRS investigations into 501c4 groups, Wikileaks, and double-digit investigations into Benghazi… in all those Congressional hearings, exactly zero convictions or criminal charges were filed, and a small fortune in taxpayer dollars have been wasted in his mad quest to root out corruption that doesn’t exist. Rep. Issa himself bragged in 2010 that under his watch, the House Oversight Committee would hold hearings “seven hearings a week for 40 weeks”. He issued my subpoenas during his tenure than his three predecessors combined. In 2016, he called for the Republican Party to have another government shutdown to protest if Hillary Clinton was not charged with a crime for using a private e-mail server while serving as Secretary of State, because that’s not an unreasonable demand. You’d think with all the s*** the man threw at the wall over a seven-year tenure in that position, he could have managed to find something that would stick, but all it did at best was hurt the poll numbers of whomever he was attacking at the time.



Now, what’s new with Rep. Issa is rather timely. Back on June 28th, 2017, he went to speak before the Federation for American Immigration Reform, aka FAIR, aka an honest-to-not-goodness hate group whose founder likes to talk a lot about the white race being superior because eugenics prove it. And after the Neo-Nazis were marching through Charlottesville and carried out a terror attack, suddenly Issa wanted hearings on white supremacy in Congress. Hey, Darrell? Maybe you should go back through your day planner and invite some of your pals, y’know?



Surviving until 2018 In a California swing district, after nine terms in office, Issa had drawn the ire of his constituents, so much so that he was seen standing on the roof of his office in his home district to avoid them, and went out of his way to plan a “town hall” where he had a special invitation list of people who were conservative, so he wouldn’t have any confrontations with people who actually disagree with them. After record Democratic voter registration, and record Latino voter registration started to be reported throughout most of California, including Darrell Issa’s district, It became official on January 10th, 2018… Darrell supposedly retired from office after 9 terms in Congress…



However, Darrell Issa launched a carpet-bagging campaign to try to run for the seat in California’s 50th Congressional District instead, and narrowly won with 54% of the vote. He has quickly returned to being a partisan s***heel, almost immediately starting pretending that Donald Trump actually completed a full border wall on the U.S./Mexico border, and that somehow “gaps” in it were created by President Joe Biden in his first few months in office.

We really wish he’d f***ed off into retirement, but if it means we get to see him get his ass kicked out of office in a second district two years later, we’ll be alright with it. Because at the moment, his re-election strategy seems to be “peddling Hunter Biden conspiracy theories on Twitter”, because that’s the closest thing to GOP policy these days. Of course, you’d expect someone to do everything they can to distract their constituents from the fact that they might be implicated in some kind of scandal over illegal campaign donations.

In 2022, Issa has responded to redistricting by running along to the new California’s 48th Congressional District to try to win re-election, eyeing the +9 Republican lean it has in the Cook Partisan Voting Index as an acceptable advantage to continue his second-chance Congressional career that should have never been. His Democratic opponent is Stephen Houlahan, a former nurse who we’re hoping not only seeks to rough up Issa over his many, many attacks on the Affordable Care Act, but also his party’s crusade to get rid of Medicare and Social Security if they retake the House, as well as Issa’s bizarre refusal to vote for the Right to Conception Act, given that California supports women’s right to birth control even more than the average state in the country.

Whether it’s a criminal charge or just getting voters putting the boots to them, we could go for another dose of Darrell Issa being sent packing.

One Year Ago, August 29th, 2021: Darrell Issa (CA)… 2021 Update

Two Years Ago, August 29th, 2020: Darrell Issa (CA)… 2020 Update

Three Years Ago, August 29th, 2019: Gina Sosa (FL)

Four Years Ago, August 29th, 2018: Darrell Issa (CA)… 2018 Update

Five Years Ago, August 29th, 2017: Darrell Issa (CA) … 2017 Update

Six Years Ago, August 29th, 2016: Darrell Issa (CA)… 2016 Update

Seven Years Ago, August 29th, 2015: Darrell Issa (CA)…2015 Update

Eight Years Ago, August 29th, 2014: Darrell Issa (CA)…Original Profile

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