CA-49: Darrell Issa Uses Tim Russert's Death To Promote GOP Pet Issue

by David Dayen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

I don't particularly think that the House of Representatives should be making resolutions like honoring the life of Tim Russert when there is so much business to be done.  But if they're going to do it, the least that members can do is exhibit the bare minimum level of decorum.  In other words, not do what Darrell Issa did today.

ISSA: We are going to miss Tim Russert when it comes to the people on both sides of the issue of why we have $5 oil - $5 gasoline and $135 oil. I think Tim Russert would have been just the right guy to hold people accountable, who would talk about the 68 million acres that are, quote, inactive, while in fact 41 million are under current lease and use and are producing millions of barrels of oil and natural gas a day. [...]

So, Madam Speaker, I am going to miss Tim Russert because this debate is too important not to have a fact-oriented, unbiased moderator who could in fact bring to bear the truth that we need to have.

You stay classy, guy who uses a journalist's death to pimp for oil exploration.

Robert Hamilton is Issa's Democratic opponent this year.