Rep. Issa: 9/11 was ’simply’ a plane crash.
Rep. Issa: 9/11 was ’simply’ a plane crash.
During a hearing Tuesday on an aid bill for sick New Yorkers, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) callously dismissed the 9/11 attacks as “simply” a plane crash. The New York Daily News reports:
The California congressman who called the Sept. 11 attacks “simply” a plane crash ran for cover Wednesday under a barrage of ridicule from fellow Republicans, first responders and victims’ families.
San Diego GOP Rep. Darrell Issa was under siege for suggesting the federal government had already done enough to help New York cope with “a fire” that “simply was an aircraft” hitting the World Trade Center.
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) sharply criticized his fellow conservative’s remarks, stating, “New York was attacked by Al Qaeda. It doesn’t have to be attacked by Congress.” In his statement yesterday, Issa tried to insist that he only “asked tough questions about the expenditures” during the hearing.
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Issa knows “simple”, that’s for sure.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:42 pmJust one question.
Was Issa wearing his flag pin in lapel
SNARK!
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:43 pmThat’s hilarious. Next we’ll learn that Katrina was simply a rain storm. Even if a plane had struck the World Trade Center on accident it wouldn’t forgive the shameful efforts by the EPA and others to cover up the significant health risks to area resident, survivors, and first responders.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:46 pmI posted this on the ThinkFast thread half-and-hour ago. Thank you for passing it along, ThinkProgress.
Disgusting, idiotic comments by Issa.
Good for Rep. King.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:47 pmYou, sir, just emboldened the terrorists. And I’m not kidding.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:47 pmThen why the need for trashing the Constitution and having a “Patriot Act”? Issa?
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:47 pmDarrell Issa Idiot.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm9-11 was an inside job…. only the tin-foil crowd believes the “bush” version…
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 pmExley Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
I posted this on the ThinkFast thread half-and-hour ago. Thank you for passing it along, ThinkProgress.
Disgusting, idiotic comments by Issa.
Good for Rep. King.
Thanks for posting this Ex…Issa is in my neighborhood (San Diego) so I know lots about him. How is it that all the ‘warmongers’ seem to minimize the events which caused them to become warmongers? 9/11 was ‘just a fire’? Katrina was ‘just a rainstorm’? Heartless thugs, is all they are.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:53 pmMOONBAT Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Someone should fly a large plane into the capitol building and the white house before they leave for summer recess.
Trajan writes his own posts here so he can copy-and-paste them over there.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:54 pm#6 ForTruth Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
My thoughts exactly. If it was just a simple plane crash then why the need to usurp the Constitution, international laws and institute other laws that infringe upon Americans freedoms and liberties WHILE offending the world by insisting that America Reign supreme in other Nations as the occupier of all occupiers?
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:54 pmCan TP strike Moondat’s hideous “joke?”
Not only is it horribly inappropriate, it derogates the memory of the heroes of United Flight 93, who successfully fought to prevent just such a tragedy.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 pmMOONBAT Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Someone should fly a large plane into the capitol building and the white house before they leave for summer recess.
Any want to sign up?
Concerned Patriot
and waste a perfectly good plane?
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 pmIn WWI, it was just mustard and chlorine gas.
In WWII, it was just a chain reaction.
In Vietnam, it was just Napalm.
In Kosovo, it was just Depleted Uranium.
In Iraq 1993, it was just Depleted Uranium.
In Fallujah, it was just White Phosphorous.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm…And Pearl Harbor was a prank by some Japanese frat boys that got a little out of hand.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:56 pm….and Katrina was just a rain shower.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:57 pmOh, Exley, thanks for the jingoistic note of this evening.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:59 pmIssa has a record of being MENTALLY UNSTABLE!
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:00 pmMe thinks Rep. Issa will not be running for office again…
PEACE
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:00 pm#StratRat,
I think Rep. Fossella from Staten Island has it right about Issa’s moronic comments:
“It seems that with the passage of time, something happened along the way where the scope of the problem and the real extent of the problem has not drifted out to California,” fumed Staten Island GOP Rep. Vito Fossella.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:01 pmI never saw a plane crash into the Pentagon. Have you?
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:02 pmIssa makes Reps. Dana Rohrbacher and Jack Kingston look like Mensa material.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:03 pmI agree….flagged. TP should ban this one by IP. He is using TP as propaganda machine….
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:03 pmDarrell Issa is an idiot and I just wrote him a letter to that very effect. Feel free to send one for yourself. Here’s a link to my letter and link to his profile.
Letter – http://www.freedomspeaks.com/letter/93100/simply-a-plane-crash-you-are-such-an-idiot
Darrell’s Profile – http://www.freedomspeaks.com/official/darrell-issa/federal.us-legislative-house.ca-49
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:04 pmIs it just my imagination, or does San Diego seem to elect more than its share of lunatics and morons?
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:05 pmSo?
-Dickwad Cheney
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:06 pmMr.Issa does have some criminal charges in his past that would lead one to believe he is of the thuggery mind-set.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:07 pmthe only reason this is still in question is because the bush administration keeps it from being known…..if they don’t have anything to hide then why is it a secret?
You can see why people question what really happened when the answer from bush is “trust us”. That has been proven to be a fatal path for any fool to follow.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:09 pmgummitch Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Is it just my imagination, or does San Diego seem to elect more than its share of lunatics and morons?
I think you are right. Let me be the first to publicly apologize for allowing Issa to be anywhere near a government position. I am from San Diego, and we do have our share of chickenhawk, load mouthed politicians. Must be all the navy and marine bases here in the county.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:09 pmIssa’s past criminal charges include threatening business partner with gun and profiting from burning his own business. He made his fortune in car alarms. He’s partially responsible for giving us Gov. Ahnulld.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:09 pmThanks to TP for striking Moonbat’s post. Just wish others hadn’t repeated it in their posts. Unfortunately, that way is still lingers.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:10 pmThanks a lot, StratRat. :)
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:10 pmNo, 9/11 wasn’t *just* a plane crash, but it was a relatively insignificant criminal act (murder and destruction of private property). More Americans are killed by Americans every year than Al-Q killed on 9/11. More people die of treatable illnesses that could be prevented with universal healthcare. The list goes on people. Oh, and the majority of these needless deaths could be prevented with a fraction of the money that has been squandered by this war.
The difference? 9/11 was spectacular to watch. Thousands of insurance-less people succumbing to illness over the course of a year just doesn’t make for good TV. 9/11 was only significant because people like GWB want you to think its significant so they can push their greedy agendas.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:10 pmKeith Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Thanks a lot, StratRat. :)
Indeed! I am hanging my head in shame…And I didn’t even vote for the guy.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:11 pmStudy said 18,000 die every year in US due to lack of healthcare.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:12 pmDon’t be too impressed with Peter King, folks, just because he criticized Issa.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:13 pmI think what Issa meant to say is that it was only *apparently* a plane crash.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:16 pmIssa led recall of Gov Gray Davis—when Davis basically did nothing wrong at all, except possibly mislead on budget (but not as much as Ahnuld).
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:17 pmDoes the Rep in front of his name stand for REPREHENSIBLE???
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:17 pmThe results of the exposure to multiple toxins on those who cleaned up the mess caused by the exploding towers are heartbreaking. Read their stories. Many hundreds of people were contaminated, inside and out, by the flour-fine dust made of powdered concrete, glass, fiberglass, computers, office furnishings, bodies, and laced with who knows what else (since the REAL cause for that disintegration has yet to be satisfactorily explained).
This was no “simple plane crash.” There was never an FAA investigation, no reconstruction, as there would have been in a “simple plane crash.” This was no ordinary “fire” that needed to be coped with. There was never a forensic investigation of the debris.
Rep. Issa, you are truly out of touch with what happened that day and in the days, months and years following, aren’t you?
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:19 pmIssa in so much trouble for speaking before engaging my brain.
Glad to hear republicans taking him to the woodshed.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:20 pmIssa: Did I say that out loud?
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:20 pmExley Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I agree with Exley. I’m going to flag my own post so that the troll’s wishes of leaving a permanent imprint of extremist content is not fulfilled. Recaps of deletion-bound troll posts should be limited.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:21 pmMcWars, don’t flag yourself. Just write TP and ask them to delete it.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:23 pmCompassionate Conservatism, where has thou gone?
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:24 pmIf Issa were a democrap, he would be an arab terrorist instead of a lebanese american and would have been executed after his remark. There is a foul stench coming from the swamp.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:24 pm9/11 was an inside job.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:25 pmBeauty is fleeting but stupid is forever.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:26 pmWhat’s that? Issa refused to swear-in on the Bible? I knew it.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:26 pmActually leaving the posts where people speak out against the heinous troll, including the original despicable comment is probably the best way to prove to newcomers that progressives speak out against this kind of hate speak.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:28 pmZooey Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Will do. Thank you, Zooey, for the hint.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:28 pmIssa is an idiot who talks just to hear his head roar.
Dukester, Issa, Jerry Lewis, Dana Rorbacher…where does Calif. find these idiots?
…and why are they closing the office leading the Lewis investigation?
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:29 pmCaption: ‘Ernest goes to Washington’
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:30 pmWhat was the quid pro quo for Guilliani? What was he promised if he complied with the removal of all evidence from the site? The presidency perhaps? Guess what Rudy, those people weren’t to be trusted, were they?
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:31 pmThose southern California wildfires last year(where he probably lobbied for money) was just a backyard barbecue.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:33 pmy’know? …
what the hell good does it do
to flag ‘em if you’re gonna copy ‘em?
jeesh…
…
i guess it gets it banned, but there are more direct ways to do that…
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:33 pm…
Shayne’s logic is sound. I think it’s best to keep our responses on the record.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:34 pmZimzone says: “where does Calif. find these idiots?”
Nixon, Reagan, Sonny Bono, etc. I live between LA and SF.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:36 pmIssa’s $21,000,000 family foundation sure sends a lot of $$ toward Lebanese causes!
http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990pf_pdf_archive/330/330834068/330834068_200612_990PF.pdf
Tom DeLay’s “Foundation” also got some money from Issa.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:39 pmKeith, I was born and raised in the San Fernando valley, and go back to visit that hellhole every couple of years to see my brother. So I too, am part of the CalidiotifornianClan.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:39 pmKeith, you aren’t an Atascaderan, are you?
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:40 pmRUCerious,
For four years, I lived near Sherman Way and Sepulveda.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:41 pmWhat was the quid pro quo for Guilliani? What was he promised if he complied with the removal of all evidence from the site? The presidency perhaps? Guess what Rudy, those people weren’t to be trusted, were they?
Once upon a time, it was a “fringe” group that believed that our own government had something to do with 911. Last poll I saw (don’t know the exact date on it), 36% of the American people believed that the U.S. government (specifically the present administration) were either directly responsible or were complicit.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:41 pmI’m 30 miles south of Atascadero.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:41 pmIssa shoulda stuck to what he does best: stealing cars.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:44 pmAnd he DOES look like Ernest Goes to DeeCee! :-PPPPPPP
Estimate for tomorrow’s numbers is a loss of 50,000 jobs for March.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:46 pmIf the trolls post this nonsense to make the site look bad at places like TPWatch then it doesn’t matter when it’s deleted they no doubt copy it the minute it’s posted. Flagging it and getting it deleted is good but it still needs to be repudiated. Just my opinion.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:48 pm#58….you left Duncecap Hunter off your list.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:49 pmWhat is your point Keith? Don’t you remember KKKarl Roves said that the economy only “appears” to be tanking? Yeesh!
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:51 pmIn post #72, I thought I was still on the unemployment applications post. Sorry, need more coffee.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:54 pmApril 3rd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Irresponsibility: No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:59 pmAny Congressman who even gives the appearance of tossing off 9/11 as a trivial event is committing political suicide. If Issa’s objective was to argue against giving New York any more federal money to deal with the illnesses of the 9/11 rescue and clean-up workers, he certainly could have found a less inflammatory way to express that.
That said, I wonder if Issa could explain that if 9/11 was “just a plane crash” why he has always supported and continues to support the “War on Terror?” He really can’t have this both ways.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:00 pmThat’s OK Keith. It gave me the opportunity to bring up the insanity of Karl Rove.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:07 pmOleHippieChick Says:
Issa shoulda stuck to what he does best: stealing cars.
Hysterical – when you realize that Jihad Darrell made all his money by designing and selling a car alarm!!!!
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:08 pmEveryone should do what open minded San Diegans actually do: Grit your teeth and ignore Issa and Dunkie Hunter.
I swear, sometimes, I think the very first thing on the list of qualifications to be a Republican is stupidity.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:14 pmI expect this’ll make Keith’s Worsts tonight. Good grief.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:19 pm#68 OMG! Right down the street from Bob’s Big Boy!
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:24 pmWell, ignoring the schmuck is done at one’s own peril. He needs to be put down, politically, like a rabid dog.
The only good thing about Arnie running for Governor was watching Issa weep like a baby that he didn’t get to win his little coup. Prick.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:25 pmKeith, that would put you in the tri-cities, let me guess…
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:27 pmPismo or Grover City??
There was an E4-B plane flying over Washington on 9/11 prior to the Pentagon “alledged” attack. I would like an explanation for what this military operation plane flying on that day. I also would like to see the footage of a 757 hitting the Pantagon. Afetr they do that, they can try to explain how two plane hit two towers, but three twoers came down, having TOTAL COLLAPSE in less than 10 seconds each!!!! Physics do not lie. Bush and Chenney do, and do it constanly!
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:29 pmApril 3rd, 2008 at 3:31 pm
HE SAID WHAT????
Where the hell were you, Rep. Issa, on 9/11? Sure, a plane crashed into the WTC – THAT WAS HIJACKED AND INTENTIONALLY FLOWN INTO THE BUILDINGS!!!
If it were “just a plane crash”, then why have our lives been turned upside down over it? Why do we have “no fly” lists? Why do we have a “Department of Homeland Security”? Why do I have to take of my freaking shoes in order to get onto a plane?
I am all for asking the tough questions; I just object to STUPID ones.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:34 pmAnother seat for the Democrats to challenge.
Will Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) survive re-election?
http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=2028
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April 3rd, 2008 at 3:45 pmIsn’t Issa’s district near where that simple Boy Scout campfire got a bit out of hand last year?
(Before anyone gets upset, I’m just being snarky.)
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:01 pmIssa is mentally gone.
Memo to Issa: 9/11 was a inside job. Go look at the asset portfolios of George and Dick.
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:13 pmI keep waiting for the conservative compassion that bush campaigned on as the new party mantle. But a fish rots from the head down. Sure wish someone would take this fish out to the trash.
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:42 pmSouthernman, do some research on other steel buildings and how long it takes to burn without EVER disintegrating. Do I think it was an inside job, no. However, Ashcroft for one stopped riding on commercial jets two months before. I think bush and cheney knew alot more than we will ever find out. They needed something to take the heat off the phoney election that journalists were looking into. They wanted a war with Iraq to control oil. As in any crime see who benefitted. Condi and the rest ignored Richard Clarke instead of listening. That alone was a travesty to Americans that died.
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:10 pmAmazes me that there are still people so stupid that they think 9-11 was bad for Bush.. best thing that ever happened to him..nice big made for hollywood boom and everything…all it takes is 19 boxcutters to shred the constitution apparently
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:42 pm>Disgusting, idiotic comments by Issa.
blink! blink! exlexlia bothered by something a republican did? shocking..
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:43 pmRUCerious, Arroyo Grande, it’s much nicer than Grover Beach (ha, ha). Were you asking if I was interned in the Atascadero State Hospital? :(
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:50 pm9/11 gave Bush everything he wanted. Popularity shot from about 45% to 90% overnight and if anyone ever objected to his wishes, he could say “you’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists!” Got to say cool stuff like “wanted dead or alive” and “bring ‘em on!”.
I ain’t saying they did it, mind you—even if brother Marvin’s Saudi company was in charge of security for the WTC, United Air, and Reagan Airport.
Pakistani Intelligence probably did it.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:56 pmKilo, it’s called “freedom of speech”. Look under Bill of Rights, inside Constitution.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:19 pmDidn’t Issa cry _ I mean literally cry _ when he basically decided not to run for California governor after he masterminded Gray’s recall several years ago. I mean this guy cried because he knew he couldn’t win the governorship. The man is a freakin idiot and egomaniac. He has no business being in the human race.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:11 pmYeah kilo and southern….There is a lot of doubt and confusion surrounding 911 still. That could be easily addressed by this administration but they for some odd reason choose to not share what they know. Wonder why?
So I would say that at this point that just about any thought, theory or observation is just as valid as the next.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:45 pmIf you guys are tired of seeing this ass-clown in Congress, then check out the Democratic candidate challenging him in the CA-49th this November. Robert Hamilton has a multi-cultural, bi-lingual background, and also has a background in the military and business.
He will be a good Democrat to have on our side in Washington. I had the opportunity to meet him at the last gathering of Temecula’s Drinking Liberally and he seems like a really great guy.
Our district is definitely gerrymandered to be a safe one for Issa… although the challenger last year was kind of a kook (in my opinion) and got nearly 40% of the vote. Bob Hamilton is a much stronger candidate… he’s a good Democrat in republican-friendly dressing! He will definitely be able to run a competitive race by getting many republicans and independents to leave Issa.
Please learn more about Robert Hamilton and donate what you can to his campaign!!!
April 4th, 2008 at 1:10 amHello Hannity.
This Republican is in need of some of that republican defense. He doesn’t even have the decency to wear a flag lapel pin.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:12 am