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Video: Rep. Darrell Issa Has Confidence In Boehner, But Not The Bill

Jan. 1, 2013 6:09pm

It’s 6pm (ET) on Tuesday, January 1st and the U.S. Senate has officially “gaveled out” for the day. They are slated to return at noon on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the Republican members of the House of Representatives assembled for a second New Year’s Day meeting to discuss the latest bill to solve the Fiscal Cliff approved by the Senate.

Before joining his colleagues in the meeting, Rep. Darrell Issa of California’s 49th District spoke with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about the Senate bill, the chances for the bill to pass the House, and Issa’s support for Speaker John Boehner.

Republican House Members Signal Problems With The Senates Fiscal Cliff Solution

Image: CNN

One of Issa’s statements does not exactly send a positive message about the potential for the Senate bill to pass easily in the House.

“This bill in its present form is not good enough because it doesn’t deal with spending reduction in any way, shape, or form.”

Near the end of the interview, Blitzer asked Rep. Issa about his “confidence” in Speaker John Boehner. The Congressman’s reply:

I have confidence in the Speaker, he’s listening, he’s making the process open, but of course, that includes people like myself and leader Cantor, who say we’ve got to be open for change, and we want to see them.”

The abbreviated CNN interview is here.

Watch the full 8:05 CNN interview here.

 

 

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Comments (63)

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  • Kregneva
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:31pm

    We all feel bad that we lost so convincingly in 2012, and it was probably the biggest surprise to Mr. Issa, because when he held the birth control hearings with NO women, he helped make sure the Demonic’s got most of the single female vote!

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  • Kregneva
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:27pm

    With all due respect, we lost fair and square last November because Darryl Issa and other haters tried to shut down the Demon Rats. Just made them get up off their sofas and vote, is all.

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    Kregneva  
  • OUTLAW_WEALTH
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:01pm

    I don’t have “confidence” in Boehner or Issa.

    I have confidence in the Constitution and in righteous living.

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    OUTLAW_WEALTH  
  • blanco5
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:42pm

    Confidence and b*ner should not ever exist in the same sentence!

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    • Mr.Fitnah
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:44pm

      Only a fool has any confidence in any politician .

      Report this comment

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    • muffythetuffy
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:01pm

      WE DID NOT JUST LOOSE AN ELECTION THAT WAS PROBABLY STOLEN FROM USE WE LOST OUR NATION TOO

      All of us worked 24/7 to elect Congressman who promised to represent us and fight for conservatism by stopping the spending that to reduce the size of government. These people we elected now take pride and double crossing us, they take pride in how they tricked us.

      1. They now plan to pass a bill in the House so that both the Senate and House versions can be passed in reconciliation session that cheats all of us and prevents justice.

      2. We no longer have a representative government but a national fraud legalized by Courts of fraud. Even our Supreme Court twists the law into a pretzel to fit its agenda.

      3. There is no going back. We must continue on our course until the necessity of secession is realized.

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    • pschlentz
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:03pm

      Wolf Blitzer is an idiot. Maybe he could pay attention to what’s important instead of the joke that Issa ran across his bow. This guy heard the joke about New Years Eve drinking, stopped listening to the meat of what Issa was getting at, waited with baited breath to ask him about his peers drinking. What a horse’s A$$ Blitzer is. This guy is a joke, you know, one of those hard reporters that really gets to the meat of the matter.
      The guy is blaringly Liberal…

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    • darkknight91
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:04pm

      Mr. F, you speak the truth. It’s time people wake up to the fact both parties hold contempt for the American people.

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    • What_Did_I_Miss
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:13pm

      I have confidence in Boehner. I am confident that given half a chance he will cave in
      and f_ it up.

      Tea Partiers…we need to financially support a conservative to replace him.
      Retirement suits him.

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      What_Did_I_Miss  
    • justangry
      Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:29am

      Oh come on they’re both police statists. They LOVE enslaving us just as much as the left wing statist ********.

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      justangry  
  • bigbear_awake
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:32pm

    Raymond • 9 hours ago

    This case really happened.
    On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk , England
    An uncontrolled government is a greater threat than kooks with guns.

    You’re sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door.
    Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers.
    At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way.

    With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun. You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it. In the darkness, you make out two shadows.
    One holds something that looks like a crowbar.

    When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire.
    The blast knocks both thugs to the floor. One writhes and screams while the
    second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside.

    As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you’re in trouble.
    In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few
    that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them
    useless.. . . . Yours was never registered.

    Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died.
    They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession
    of a Firearm.

    When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.

    “What kind of sentence will I get?” you ask.

    “Only ten-to-twelve years,” he replies, a

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    • bigbear_awake
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:41pm

      as if that’s nothing. “Behave yourself, and you’ll be out in seven.”

      The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper. Somehow, you’re portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys. Their friends and relatives can’t find an unkind word to say about them.. Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both “victims” have been arrested numerous times.

      But the next day’s headline says it all:
      “Lovable Rogue Son Didn’t Deserve to Die.”
      The thieves have been transformed from career criminals
      into Robin Hood-type pranksters.. As the days wear on,
      the story takes wings. The national media picks it up,
      then the international media. The surviving burglar has
      become a folk hero.

      Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you,
      and he’ll probably win. The media publishes reports
      that your home has been burglarized several times in
      the past and that you’ve been critical of local police for
      their lack of effort in apprehending the suspects.
      After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you
      would be prepared next time. The District Attorney uses
      this to allege that you were lying in wait for the burglars.
      A few months later, you go to trial. The charges haven’t
      been reduced, as your lawyer had so confidently predicted. When you take the stand, your anger at the injustice of it all works against you.. Prosecutors paint a picture of you as a
      mean, vengeful man.

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    • bigbear_awake
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:58pm

      http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/01/gun-opponents-should-learn-what-the-founders-meant-when-they-wrote-the-second-amendment/

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      bigbear_awake  
  • Brentley
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:04pm

    If Congress were really wanting to do something, they would take NO PAY for their time in office. Stop all perks. Get paid for 2 weeks in session 4 times a year. THAT MEANS TRAVEL EXPENSES. NO property or housing could be owned within 50 miles of DC. That is problem one. Second is not quite as easy but that is NO medical unless absolutely necessary for inmates. INSULIN life supporting drugs. NO ARTIFICIAL LIMBS. NO TV NO AIR CONDITIONING NO HEAT. NO GOVT supported education. They want that then they work for it. NEXT REMOVE MOST OF WELFARE. Oh gee guys how simple would that be to do….thinking very simple. and ground AIR FORCE ONE for a couple of years NO MORE VACATIONS ON THE TAX PAYER MR President. NO MORE GREEN ENERGY waste. NO MORE EPA…NO MORE IRS…15% national sales tax and that wipes out all the loop holes. AND NO MORE TAX RAISES. We pay way too much already. ….of course you all know this will never happen because the CONGRESS HAS APPETITE LIKE COOKIE MONSTER!!!

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  • gabbygirl
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:58pm

    Im sick of the game too. Republicans r spineless, guttless wonders. Booehner is the worst.

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  • wdg710
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:34pm

    “Neither the representatives of a nation, nor the whole nation itself assembled, can validly engage debts beyond what they may pay in their own time.” – Thomas Jefferson 1789
    What a conept TJ had!

    Report this comment

    wdg710  
    • dublinthewagons
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:16pm

      More debt than that is theft, and should be treated as such.

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:37pm

      Of course! The Socialist-Dems want this crisis. Some Repub’s, too.
      But….the real problem is the Dems ideology that we need to be a socialist country. The social-welfare programs, the gov unions and the money it brings in, the over spending on those things… its all in the plan of creating chaos, hunger, anarchy, taking your guns.
      You’ll be helpless as the Cambodian’s murdered by the Khymer Rouge, or the Russians under Communism.
      Its the UN, as well. They know an armed US will never come under their dictates, though we’re dangerously close. Your private property rights will go under UN Agenda 21.
      You really need to read these things.
      We have a perfect storm….. money crisis, then no food, and no guns to keep the bad guys away.

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  • pennx300
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:20pm

    I would like to see the voter I.d . Be attached to the bill. Make the president own that as well
    If it doesn’t get on this bill tie it to the new gun control magazine restriction that they want to shove on us it is time to start shoving the stuff they don’t want on to them make them talk about it . I’m sure obama wouldn’t mind having voter I.d . For the 2014. Mid term

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  • wdg710
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:18pm

    Glennda … the whole thing is an act right? You can’t be that stupid …

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    wdg710  
  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:05pm

    I’d like one of the obamazombies on here to explain how raising taxes and creating new taxes ie the health care BS law reduces spending.One of you geniuses care to take a crack at that?

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  • Becks_Art_Obama_In_PeePee
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:53pm

    “Video: Rep. Darrell Issa Has Confidence In Boehner, But Not The Bill — “This bill in its present form is not good enough because it doesn’t deal with spending reduction in any way, shape, or form.” ”

    Washington DC is the land of the brain-dead! (I know … they’re really, mostly commie-revolutionaries crumbling America from within, but let’s play along with this for it’s entertainment value.)

    If you have no confidence in Boehner’s bill, then you should have no confidence in … [*drum roll*] … Boehner. Duh!

    Oh, did some one mention the REAL solution?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s1MspmfEwg
    (Thanks, Ripley!)

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  • wordsofwisdom
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:47pm

    As I said before, Another late night just in time illegal tax bill from the senate that will continue the spending & the screwing of the American people & if the house brings it up as a no amendments up or down vote (which I suspect they will) to me that would be treason by the leaders of both houses. “What’s Wrong With This Song” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_9134749
    We keep voting these people back in WHY? I just do not understand the voter stupidity in this country?

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  • dumpsterdiver99
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:44pm

    I say these closed door deal making has got to stop. Whose to say what goes on.

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  • DIgnified
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:39pm

    This week on Dorf on the Economy…

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  • Glennda
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:34pm

    Conservatives don’t know what they want, because they have no principles. You didn’t want higher taxes and spending cuts. OK. So here’s a a bill with no higher taxes save for the top 1% and no spending cuts. Now you want more cuts.

    And you wonder why the majority of real Americans laugh at you . . . when we’re not shaking out heads in disgust. We’re done with your whining and fickle temper tantrums. Do America a favor and just get out. /right now. Pack your trailers and drag them and your toothless broods down to Mexico.

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    • gyro
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:45pm

      get with the program Glennda –LESS SPENDING

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      gyro  
    • Hotconchick
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:47pm

      LOL…I would rather have them have no principles than the Commie principle of free junk for lazy takers. Some principles the others have- destroy America. That’s something to look up to.

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    • possom
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:51pm

      There not Conservatives and guess what the majority of americans don’t care because their too busy counting their obamabucks. Now be a good girl and pay your tax’s so obama can give it to the freeloaders.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:56pm

      Okay genius say the candyasses in congress extract more money from the evil 1%,how long do you think it’ll fund the hogs in DC? The answer is 8-9 days then what dummy? Create new taxes and raise the rates that will fix the problem,yeah right only obamazombies believe new taxes and raising tax rates reduces spending,nobody ever accused obamazombies of being the sharpest knives in the drawer.

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    • GlennDuh
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:04pm

      Blah, blah, blah and some more blah.

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    • My Two Cents
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:04pm

      Glennda:You are an idiot. Because we own a small business our household pays just south of six figures in income tax every year. How much do you pay?

      People like us are supporting the trailer park trash and we are sick of it. Much more and we will take our ball and go home. Employees be damned.

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    • Glennda
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:58pm

      GLENNDUH MONK . . . Your slip is showing.

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    • Glennda
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:07pm

      MY TWO CENTS . . . Don’t care what business you have or how much you pay in taxes. Don’t care what god you pray to, which church you go to, or what you think is right or wrong. Your ego is your burden.

      What’s clear is that the price you’re willing to pay to indulge your martyrdom is now more than you can afford. Otherwise, you’d keep paying it out of empty pride and bragging rights.

      Go ahead, close your doors. Fire your employees. I don’t care any more than you do.

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      Glennda  
  • WISCONSIN-CONSERVATIVE
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:27pm

    YAWN—-? Why don’t they just take us over the so called cliff and on our way to bankruptcy and get it over with! That is what most of them want anyway, especially BHO.

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  • Vickie Dhaene
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:26pm

    I vote No Confidence in John Boehner. I will changing my Republican registration to “Independent” on Thursday 1/3/2013. They will have to work a lot harder for MY vote from here on in.

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  • Glennda
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:25pm

    He’s one of the guys you can blame for you taxes going up. How do you like ‘em now?

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    Glennda  
  • Glennda
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:25pm

    What do you care, Kathy Griffin did something!

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    Glennda  
  • BlackCrow
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:22pm

    It’s not the fall but the abrupt stop at the bottom that hurts. GGGGEEEEERRRROOONNNNIIIIMMMoooooo……..

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  • high school drop out
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:21pm

    This fight was lost from the start… I say give the Dems what they want today…beat the hell out of them on the debt ceiling…Their out of control spending will do them in for the mid terms

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  • civilwarcometh
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:21pm

    This is what the senate republicans voted for.Criminals ALL of them..http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/01/cbo-senate-fiscal-cliff-deal-adds-4-trillion-to-the-deficit/

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  • Glennda
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:20pm

    Like those higher taxes of yours, folks?

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    Glennda  
    • gyro
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:46pm

      you folks ?

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      gyro  
    • truthnstuff
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:38pm

      The usual stupidity you present must mean that you are either on the gubemin dole, or are a public sector collector. I did not say worker because you parasites do not work, you simply collect. Typical union indoctrinated socialist.

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  • MAULEMALL
    Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:16pm

    If any repubs want to act like dems and approve this bill then we may as well vote in dems…

    And I will be happy to sit home next election.

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