What I want to know is who is Rep. Issa in the backpocket of? Waxman should have hauled Issa's ass out. Great job from Waxman for demanded the answers from the EPA.
TPM:
In a showdown between irresistible force and immovable object, the immovable object won.
Under withering questioning this afternoon from exasperated House government oversight committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA), EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson held his ground, repeating the same non-responsive answers until the usually unflappable Waxman finally lost his temper.
Waxman was asking Johnson whether he had ever discussed two ozone rulings with the President. Johnson has previously testified that he had discussed California's emissions waiver, but now refused to say whether he had discussed the ozone rulings. The White House's involvement in overruling science-based recommendations from EPA staff in favor of more politically expedient alternatives is now the focus of Waxman's investigation.
As Waxman continued to press this line of questioning, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the highest ranking Republican present at the hearing, protested that Waxman was asking questions out of turn, prompting Waxman to threaten to have Issa removed from the hearing room.
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The dude knows he's lying and Issa was trying to protect him from being charged with perjury. He was put in his place by Waxman and now the dudes will be charge. Johnson should have called the White House to protect him now he's hosed.
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