Tech pros hit Issa for taking Park away from HealthCare.gov

[TomCADem]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) - A group of technology experts has a message for Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republican Oversight Committee chairman who last week disregarded the White House’s insistence that U.S. technology chief Todd Park is too busy to testify about his efforts to repair HealthCare.gov.

“Let Todd Work,” the group proclaims on a website launched after Issa issued a subpoena for Park to appear before his panel on Wednesday.

“Now, instead of continuing to fix HealthCare.gov (a mess he did not make), Mr. Park has to spend his hours preparing for his testimony,” declares the website on its homepage, before listing some of Park’s accomplishments.

“Mr. Park is a fantastic civil servant, who cares about making government more effective and accountable, just like Mr. Issa,” the group writes. “We hope that they can work together on solving the policies that enabled HealthCare.gov to fail in the first place. No matter what side of the aisle you sit on, Todd is one of the good guys. Let him do his job.”


Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/10/tech-pros-hit-issa-for-taking-park-away-from-healthcare-gov/

---

Of course, Issa is not interested in trying to figure out what is going on. Rather, he is busy playing gotcha by asking witnesses about documents that they have never seen, then leaking edited transcripts to advance his right wing talking points. Issa is the poster boy for what is wrong with the Republican party and Congress.

[Historic NY]

1. Just another GOP trick to take the bricks of ACA out of the wall.

[JBoy]

2. Issa would pull a pediatric surgeon away from an operation

if he thought he could score political points with it.

[valerief]

3. Issa is the scum on scum. nt

[al bupp]

4. Any honest IT developer would say this

Meetings can be the bane of a developer, as they have to spend time explaining to non-technical people the whys of a project's status, rather than actually working on the project. It's like a Dilbert cartoon w/ a room full of pointy-haired bosses.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

12. Yep Yep.

I hate those meetings, they ask questions like:

"Alright. I understand, but is there any way we can do it for just her?."

[Skittles]

17. OMG project mangers are the WORST

[Dawson Leery]

5. Keeping the programmers away from work is certainly going to

delay the November 30th deadline.

[47of74]

6. He and Cruz are locked in a contest to see who can be the biggest fucking asshole in Congress.

[mountain grammy]

7. Right now, that's a tie..

[Scairp]

14. Oh no

I don't think so. Issa's been at it longer than Cruz and has perfected his assholery at this point. Plus he's from California, which I REALLY do not understand how that happened.

[mountain grammy]

15. Ok, so Issa's in the lead for the biggest fucking asshole award

I'm ok with that.

[lastlib]

8. the only part I would quibble with....

is the part where they stated that Darrel "Grand-Theft-Auto" Issa was interested in making government effective and accountable. He has NO such interest.

"Poster boy"? Hell He's a fucking BILLBOARD!!

[DeSwiss]

9. I've got TWO WORDS.....

...for your chump-ass, Mr. Issa. Which should be used to thwart this openly asinine and ham-handed attempt to further damage this BS Republican healthcare plan:

[font size=5]Executive Privilege[/font]

In the United States government, executive privilege is the power claimed by the President of the United States and other members of the executive branch to resist certain subpoenas and other interventions by the legislative and judicial branches of government. The concept of executive privilege is not mentioned explicitly in the United States Constitution, but the Supreme Court of the United States ruled it to be an element of the separation of powers doctrine, and/or derived from the supremacy of executive branch in its own area of Constitutional activity. link

- Now all we need is someone with the balls (testes or ovaries accepted) to use it.

K&R

[oldandhappy]

10. Issa is the grinch

Issa will do everything he can possibly think of to hurt the president.

And some of us are doing what we can to find and help someone to run against him. The shut down gives us a window in several nearby races.

[Divine Discontent]

11. and then we have to deal with this SH!T! the tech guy is trying to fix the thing pronto &

that slimy repub has to try and slow down the fix.


http://www.zazzle.com/shutdown_the_gop_by_voting_in_2014_government-128195183613839642?rf=238107662556833486

[TrollBuster9090]

13. Here's an idea: Obama should "Pull a Gerald Ford" and grant Park a blanket pardon for disobeying

Issa's dumbass subpoenas until December.

Issa's plan is obviously to pull Todd Park out of the office, and stop him from working to fix the website, by slapping him with a subpoena. It's a cheap political trick, and everybody knows it.

So, Obama should fight a cheap political trick with ANOTHER cheap political trick. He orders Park to ignore Daryll "Flintbox" Issa's subpoenas and get back to work. Issa then slaps Park with an indictment for ignoring the subpoena, and Obama issues Park a PRESIDENTIAL PARDON. Specifically, a pardon against any conviction that results from igoniring a subpoena to appear before Congress between today, and December 1. (After all, Ford granted Nixon a pardon for anything he MIGHT have done during his term in office. Why not use the Presidential Pardon as a way of FRUSTRATING crooks, rather than PARDONING crooks for a change?)

[SoapBox]

16. Issa should be arrested and hauled away in chains

as a Traitor and Terrorist.

[RoccoR5955]

18. Why is Issa

Not in jail?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

19. Kicked, RECOMMENDED AND BOOKMARKED!!! n/t