#NewTone: Obama advisor Plouffe goes for Issa’s jugular in desperate personal attack
This is what happens when the heat gets too hot for the Chicago Way-style corruptocrats in and around the Obama administration to handle: Deflect, deflect, deflect. Jake Tapper writes:
(CNN) – An unusually harsh and personal war of words erupted on Sunday, even for the current hyper-partisan atmosphere in Washington, DC, with one of President Obama’s top advisers bringing up the 40-year-old criminal record of the Republican congressman leading the investigation into alleged IRS abuses.
“Strong words from Mr Grand Theft Auto and suspected arsonist/insurance swindler,” tweeted David Plouffe, the political guru (and unofficial adviser) for President Obama, referring to the chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
“And loose ethically today,” Plouffe ended his tweet, linking to a story about Issa answering questions on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Candy Crowley about the controversy over IRS staffers targeting conservative groups for scrutiny, in which Issa referred to White House press secretary Jay Carney as a “paid liar.”
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Plouffe, however, is clearly interested in another focus, allegations one or two generations old about Issa, not current questions about the IRS and the Obama administration.
Asked what his tweet allegations have to do with whether IRS officials in Cincinnati took direction from officials in Washington, Plouffe told CNN “the credibility and motivation of accusers are valid here.”
Republicans suggest that this is part and parcel of the Obama team’s modus operandi, that every time a critic begins to succeed, a presidential ally begins to attack his character and change the subject. To, say, 41-year-old charges against a House GOP chairman, ones that were eventually dropped.
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Asked why he brought up Issa’s criminal record from 1972 (when the charges were dismissed) and an arson investigation from 21 years ago where no one was charged with a crime, Plouffe told CNN that Issa’s “ethics issues are far more recent. Look at ethics complaints filed.”
There have been at least three ethics complaints filed against Issa, all from left-leaning groups. Complains filed in and of themselves don’t necessarily mean anything, of course. House Ethics Committee or Office of Congressional Ethics judgments are much more important, and as of now there have been none against Issa.
Can you say “desperation” with a capital “D”? Also, does Plouffe understand that his “argument” where he states “”the credibility and motivation of accusers are valid here” also apply to those left wing groups targeting Issa in the “ethics complaints”?
As a sidenote, Plouffe also toured the Sunday talk show circuit and said – get this – that Attorney General Eric Holder’s only crime was “caring about the law too much.” Valerie Jarrett said this weekend that the administration has done nothing wrong. You really can’t make this crap up on your best day.
The lies are unraveling, the masks are falling, the layers are falling away so much so that even some mainstream media journalists who have for so long been in the back pocket of this administration are slowly but surely seeing the light and are aggressively digging for answers. Let the truth be known. Honestly, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of high power political thugs.
Got your popcorn handy?
