Issa Wades Into Bush Country

GOP Rep. Darrell Issa promises he won't just go after Obama, but that he vows to look into the Bush administration as well.

“I’m going to be investigating a president of my own party, because many of the issues we’re working on began [with] President Bush or even before, and haven’t been solved,” Issa said during an interview on MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown.”

Issa made clear that he intends to examine both the Bush and Obama administrations’ handling of the mortgage crisis, as well as problems at the old Mineral Management Service, an arm of the Interior Department reorganized amid reports of corruption.

“When we look at the failures of Freddie [Mac] and Fannie [Mae], the Countrywide scandal, those all began during President Bush’s time,” Issa said. “When we look at Mineral Management Service and the ultimate failure in the Gulf, that began years before.”

“I’m hoping to bridge the multiple administrations in as many places as possible,” Issa pledged. “The enemy is the bureaucracy, not necessarily the current occupant of the White House.”

And if you believe Issa here, you believe Orange Julius will compromise with President Obama to fix the economy, too.  Believe me when I say the entire point of this exercise is to pin as much of the failures of 2007 and 2008 on the Democrats in Congress at the time, and to completely clear the Republican's name.

It's a good thing Obama didn't look into Bush's mistakes that led to the financial meltdown, otherwise it might have stoked a Republican partisan witch hunt the second they got the gavel back.