Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the aggressive chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has won the heart of the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan...
From Noonan's Saturday blog post, which questioned the government's ability to check itself on balancing freedom and security:
Oversight is time taken away from fundraising calls, from the four-minute hit on “Hardball” or Fox, from the urgent call with the important constituent, from time in the gym where you hide from your staff. And Congress isn’t even in Washington often enough to establish ready and present oversight—members work from Monday through Thursday, and then go home to meet with people and show they’re normal.
Props here to Darrell Issa: He does oversight. But his work is exceptional because it is the exception. And congressional oversight still leads us back to where we began: the built-in [government] bias toward doing too much.
Though, it could be argued that Issa isn't a master of oversight so much as he is an expert at pissing Attorney General Eric Holder off.
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