Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has been vowing to unleash an army of subpoena-wielding investigators on the Obama administration if Republicans ever take back the House.
Issa has also been alleging serious wrongdoing in the White House on an almost daily basis. Much of this concerns the BP oil spill.
At the same time, House Republicans are strongly denying that they won't hold BP accountable for the Gulf spill.
So it would seem to contradict what the Republicans say when Senate Republicans obstruct all attempts to investigate BP and the causes of the spill.
But that's just what Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) did by obstructing a bill that would have granted subpoena power to the White House Oil Spill Commission.
Last week the House passed the measure by a near unanimous vote of 420-1. This week Senate Republicans are blocking it.
A spokesman for DeMint said the senator himself does not object to giving the commission subpoena power, but he is acting on behalf of "members of the Republican conference."
Then just last week CBS news revealed that despite Gov. Bobby Jindal's attacks on the Obama administration for not delivering enough resources to help with the oil spill, Gov. Jindal himself was holding up the deployment of 5,000 National Guard troops that were authorized by the President to help out.
The New York Times reported that experts at the state and federal level both criticized Gov. Jindal's unpreparedness and added that Jindal's attacks on the Obama administration's response stunk of political attacks to distract public attention away from Jindall's own failures in responding to the spill.
No unemployment insurance. No investigation of BP. No taking responsibility. No transparency. Party of No.
GOP, wholly owned subsidiary of Big Money, and not really interested in serving the "peons."
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