# New House Judiciary Chairman to Obama: Prepare for Investigations **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 4, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511 "2010-11-04T21:35:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/21 "2010-11-04T23:59:26Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > I’m so on board with this pit. Government should never be investigated for anything and government should never be held accountable for anything it does. Oh I’m sorry. I must have made a typo because I never intended to say that. Please show me where I misspoke. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/22 "2010-11-05T00:01:10Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Non-Obama fan here. > > WTF is this about? What allegations need Congressional inquiry? I’m not aware of any legitimate concerns about Obama doing anything wrong, illegal, or unethical as POTUS. He’s made many decisions with which I disagree, but that’s because his political philosophy differs from mine. Thank you. I mean that sincerely. I wish we had an applause smiley. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/23 "2010-11-05T00:05:26Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > 1. New Black Panther Party > 2. Joe Sestak’s Job Offer > 3. ACORN’s Offspring > 4. BP Oil Spill > > According to FOX News. > > [Cite](http://nation.foxnews.com/gop/2010/11/04/gops-first-4-potential-investigations-obama) What does any of that shit have to do with Obama? What is the alleged wrongdoing in any of that garbage? Not surprised they’re mostly going after the negroes, though. ETA there was no Joe Sestak job offer, so what are they going to investigate? ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/24 "2010-11-05T00:14:41Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > 1. New Black Panther Party > 2. Joe Sestak’s Job Offer > 3. ACORN’s Offspring > 4. BP Oil Spill > > According to FOX News. > > [Cite](http://nation.foxnews.com/gop/2010/11/04/gops-first-4-potential-investigations-obama) That’s a list someone made up to discredit the idea of investigations, right? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/25 "2010-11-05T00:16:02Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > 1. New Black Panther Party > 2. Joe Sestak’s Job Offer > 3. ACORN’s Offspring > 4. BP Oil Spill > [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > What does any of that shit have to do with Obama? What is the alleged wrongdoing in any of that garbage? > > Not surprised they’re mostly going after the negroes, though. > > ETA there was no Joe Sestak job offer, so what are they going to investigate? It’s not supposed to make sense or have any relationship to reality. It’s all just to stymie the Obama administration for the rest of his term and to continue the bleating and caterwauling until they (think they can) tantrum their way back into the White House. How soon do you beat the Shirley Sherrod Affair and GateCrashGate\* are somehow going to be turned into an investigation too? - After all, a negress was the Social Secretary at the time, dontchaknow. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/26 "2010-11-05T00:33:17Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Michele Bachmann was promisng this would happen a couple of weeks ago. It’s just harassment and misdirection, and maybe a little bit of hope for a longshot discovery of somthing they can spin as a scandal. I think this will end up burning them. There isn’t going to be any jizz on a dress this time. Whosoever thinks her own wardrobe would stand up under the blacklight, let her cast the first stone. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/27 "2010-11-05T00:39:12Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > 1. New Black Panther Party > 2. Joe Sestak’s Job Offer > 3. ACORN’s Offspring > 4. BP Oil Spill > > According to FOX News. > > [Cite](http://nation.foxnews.com/gop/2010/11/04/gops-first-4-potential-investigations-obama) What, no Henry Louis Gates beer klatch, arugula grower kickbacks, and surely the one most on everyone’s mind: why has Obama not released _documentary proof_ that he didn’t personally detonate WTC 7? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/28 "2010-11-05T00:43:30Z")
Come on. We know the top of the list is the birth certificate – then the search for the sixes – THEN his allegiance to Osama bin Laden and his direct role in 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/29 "2010-11-05T00:44:44Z")
The New Black Panther Party? You have to be shitting me… this is a group wholly supported and promoted by Sean Hannity… These clowns have nothing to do with the black community and not a person I know supports them or could tell you what the fuck they do. The only time i see these idiots is on fucking FOX NEWS… where they play the mandingo role for Hannity… ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/30 "2010-11-05T00:48:45Z")
I can’t believe you guys just want them to let the 8 billion dollar per day India trip slide. INVESTIGATE NOW! ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/31 "2010-11-05T00:53:00Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > [http://radio.woai.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=119078&article=7797170](http://radio.woai.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=119078&article=7797170) > > How much time and money is the new House Judiciary Assclown going to waste on this shit. > > Mr. Lamar Smith, if you’re a true conservative then don’t throw away our tax dollars on this nonsense. > > How did we manage to give the keys to these people? Because it’s 2010 in part of the country, and ~1970 in the rest of the country. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/32 "2010-11-05T00:55:27Z")
> [@C3](#): > > I can’t believe you guys just want them to let the 8 billion dollar per day India trip slide. INVESTIGATE NOW! Now we are talking. Pre investigations. That will teach Obama not to be on the wrong side. There is no telling what kind of unAmerican things he has planned. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/33 "2010-11-05T01:31:51Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It’s good that you and **Oakminster** are sensible, sane people who are no doubt interested in a party that governs to the best of their ability to make the country better. Just to clarify, I’m an Obama supporter. I appreciated **Oakminster’s** post and said so. Reasonable politics are hard to come by these days. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/34 "2010-11-05T01:37:33Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > Just to clarify, I’m an Obama supporter. I appreciated **Oakminster’s** post and said so. Reasonable politics are hard to come by these days. Thought you might be - let’s all give a cheer for reasonable politics! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/35 "2010-11-05T01:43:49Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Not surprised they’re mostly going after the negroes, though. Representatives for British Petroleum are stating “It’s just oil, really, it’ll wash right off.” ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/36 "2010-11-05T01:46:43Z")
In all seriousness, what the hell is Obama supposed to have had to do with the BP oil spill? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/37 "2010-11-05T01:49:31Z")
Seriously, have these guys totally forgotten what a fiasco the Starr investigation was - for the Republicans? Once again, they’re going to end up looking like the party that’s just playing political games. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/38 "2010-11-05T01:53:42Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > In all seriousness, what the hell is Obama supposed to have had to do with the BP oil spill? If we knew that, we wouldn’t have to investigate, Mr. smarty-pants! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/39 "2010-11-05T02:23:07Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Non-Obama fan here. > > WTF is this about? What allegations need Congressional inquiry? I’m not aware of any legitimate concerns about Obama doing anything wrong, illegal, or unethical as POTUS. He’s made many decisions with which I disagree, but that’s because his political philosophy differs from mine. I think that the new House majority is going to convince you that Obama is closer to you in political philosophy than with the new majority. The intend to disturb the executive branch of government to the point it can’t get anything done, like they did to Clinton in the 90s. At least that is the gist of what they have said publicly. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/40 "2010-11-05T03:00:44Z")
> [@C3](#): > > I can’t believe you guys just want them to let the 8 billion dollar per day India trip slide. INVESTIGATE NOW! I think it’s 8 _trillion_ dollars, and 20 of the world’s largest navies plus, I think, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, and I think a handful of 4H clubs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511.md?page=3)