Ted Auch

Take a guess what this quote was referencing:

“It is a threat to the foundations of our free society when government officials, acting in the midst of a crisis, use dire predictions of imminent disaster to justify their encroachment on our individual liberty and the rule of law,” said Darrell Issa (R) Congressman from San Diego, CA.

No it isn’t Iraq, it isn’t Afghanistan, or WMD or anything related to killing lots of folks for no reason.

Give up? This is congressman Issa lambasting Hank Paulson last week (http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/16-10) as he appeared before a committee investigating the nefarious actions underlying the mega bailout of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America…..and BofA by the US Government………and the US Government by us the taxpayer.

I find it hard to lend any credibility to the congressman’s concern given that such a quote could easily be attributed to Dennis Kucinich or Russ Feingold during the lead-up to and subsequent complete disaster that was/is the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Does he not see that it is his party (primarily but not completely!) that gave way to this kinda hubris on the part of regulators, bankers, Defense Secretaries, Vice Presidents, and Presidents?

This is nothing new and I find it amazing that San Diego is dumb enough to vote for a guy who is just now realizing what he so eloquently stated last week. Jesus I mean these words are the very same words we could use when describing the motives for Iraq, torture, warrantless wiretapping, mass ousters of states Attorneys Generals, WMD, etc etc. Come on we are asked to pretend like we were born yesterday and it is quite insulting.