GOP blowhard, auto enthusiast, and ironic chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Darrell Issa chose the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico to demonstrate that he is indeed one of the sleaziest, most arrogant politicians in Washington D.C., and possibly of the free world. (For anyone not familiar with Issa's background, you can catch up here, if you have the stomach for it, and lots of time on your hands.)
Issa, in all his self-important, pompous bluster, also used the occasion to take part in one of the GOP's favorite sports, Obama-bashing, while also misrepresenting the facts, as any chairman of an oversight committee from his side of the aisle would:
(Actual job-crushing, time wasting Tweet)
As Think Progress pointed out, Issa has been busy not overseeing the oil "spill" himself. I"m guessing that would take too much time away from fund-raising, being swooned by lobbyists, cruising auto dealerships, and blasting out falsehoods via social media...or something..?
Under his chairmanship, Issa’s committee has held not a single hearing to investigate one of most devastating corporate crimes in American history, although even he admitted in March that the oil spill commission established by the president found “a degree of negligence by BP, its partners, and regulators that can only be called shameful.”
I suppose politicizing the deaths of the oil rig workers is just par for the course, coming from the guy who claimed 9-11 was "just a plane crash."
It's fitting that Issa uses a cartoon Keystone Kop lookalike avatar for his Twitter account.
It suits him perfectly.
