# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/41 "2010-11-05T03:06:35Z")
Gosh, at this rate, they’ll have the budget balanced in no time. ---
**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/42 "2010-11-05T03:17:59Z")
I’m sure if Obama tells them that we have to “look forward and not backwards,” the Republicans will leave him alone. Obama has refused to investigate and voted to cover up serious allegations of rampant law-breaking in the last administration. Meanwhile, his administration zealously prosecutes the whistleblowers who brought to light the evidence of that law-breaking. If the people he carried water for now want to turn on him, serves him right. Maybe he’ll start his own investigations in retaliation, and we can finally find out just what the Bush administration actually did. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/43 "2010-11-05T03:51:23Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > 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. Why is he even going to India, anyway? Last I checked, India isn’t a US state. What, are we planning to buy the place? Figures, spending money like a drunken sailor on some place halfway around the world where you can’t even take an Interstate to. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/44 "2010-11-05T03:59:27Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > 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. That, and get the phrase “Obama under investigation” in the media. They don’t really need to do much else and the people who hate Obama will just fill in the blanks. If he wasn’t guilty of something, they wouldn’t be investigating him, right? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/45 "2010-11-05T04:04:59Z")
> [@niblet\_head](#): > > That, and get the phrase “Obama under investigation” in the media. They don’t really need to do much else and the people who hate Obama will just fill in the blanks. If he wasn’t guilty of something, they wouldn’t be investigating him, right? “I can’t prove it, but I can make the son of a bitch deny it.” ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/46 "2010-11-05T04:44:26Z")
I think every committee meeting should open with the Democratic members repeatedly quoting the various remarks Obama made that he was not going to keep derailing the country by pressing for investigations of the Iraq WMD lies, torture by U.S. agents, Haliburton no-bid contracts, and the White House connection to the Assistant Attorneys General scandal. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/47 "2010-11-05T04:48:26Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Non-Obama fan here. > > WTF is this about? What allegations need Congressional inquiry? Well, we won’t know if we don’t investigate now, will we? Right? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/48 "2010-11-05T04:51:59Z")
ACORN. For sure. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/49 "2010-11-05T05:17:08Z")
> [@BrightNShiny](#): > > I’m sure if Obama tells them that we have to “look forward and not backwards,” the Republicans will leave him alone. > > Obama has refused to investigate and voted to cover up serious allegations of rampant law-breaking in the last administration. Meanwhile, his administration zealously prosecutes the whistleblowers who brought to light the evidence of that law-breaking. > > If the people he carried water for now want to turn on him, serves him right. Maybe he’ll start his own investigations in retaliation, and we can finally find out just what the Bush administration actually did. The Democrats aren’t allowed to play by those rules. I don’t know why, but both parties seem to have agreed that bipartisanship means letting the Republicans get their way on everything. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/50 "2010-11-05T06:48:36Z")
> [@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) It’s hard to read the comments to that article without thinking that they are all whooshes. Sadly, I think they are not. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/51 "2010-11-05T07:05:07Z")
It’s just too bad that he has someone drive his limo because we could get him for DWB. ---
**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, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/52 "2010-11-05T13:09:14Z")
There’s a letter to the editor in my local paper today from a guy who thinks they should investigate because people in our state elected mostly Republicans for State office and a bunch of Democrats for the Federal positions. He thinks it’s unlikely that people split their ticket, so Congress should look into this. I think he’s serious. I think people have completely lost the plot. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/53 "2010-11-05T13:26:48Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > 1. New Black Panther Party > 2. Joe Sestak’s Job Offer > 3. ACORN’s Offspring > 4. BP Oil Spill Isn’t that the line-up for the fourth side stage at last year’s Bonnaroo? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/54 "2010-11-05T13:45:03Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Isn’t that the line-up for the fourth side stage at last year’s Bonnaroo? If not, it will be in 2 years. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/55 "2010-11-05T14:07:01Z")
And to think that a clear majority of Americans thought the congress was on the wrong track just two weeks ago. I will vomit the next time I hear anyone say ‘bipartisanship’. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/56 "2010-11-05T14:47:28Z")
> [@BrightNShiny](#): > > I’m sure if Obama tells them that we have to “look forward and not backwards,” the Republicans will leave him alone. Yes, they’ll be too busy twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/57 "2010-11-05T15:11:47Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > 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. Nitpick: I think you mean 8 gazillion dollars. ---
**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, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/58 "2010-11-05T15:18:37Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Nitpick: I think you mean 8 gazillion dollars. Sorry, you’re right. Also, I think there’s a bunch of those scary looking Nation of Islam dudes. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/59 "2010-11-05T15:32:20Z")
Thank God the economy is in such great shapoe that we can make bogus investigations the priority. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511/60 "2010-11-05T15:36:26Z")
> [@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) I’m surprised they’re not going with Tony Rezko, where at least there was some corruption that Obama was kind of standing sort of near to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-house-judiciary-chairman-to-obama-prepare-for-investigations/559511.md?page=4)