Darrell Issa's Cruelest Cut: A Seriously Cynical Attack on the Postal Service

[deminks]

http://www.thenation.com/blog/177781/darrell-issas-cruelest-cut-seriously-cynical-attack-postal-service?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed#

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-California, has made no secret of his desire to diminish and dismantle the United States Postal Service.

Issa has for some time now peddled plans to end Saturday deliveries by the USPS – which continues to perform more agilely than private firms, as Holiday delivery patterns illustrated – in ways that are all but certain to make the postal service vulnerable to privatization.

Issa has a right to his opinion.

But the cynical determination with which he is now advancing it is jarring.

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Instead of embracing Issa’s latest and most cynical assault on a necessary service, Congress should do right by veterans. It can move to strengthen the USPS, along lines proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and Congressmen Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon, and Mark Pocan, D-Wisconsin. And it can address the benefits issue by enacting the Military Retirement Restoration Act, which has been introduced by Senator Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire.

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Really? Doing away with Saturday delivery in the face of the dismal performance of private services this last holiday season? Supporting veterans by destroying a major employer of veterans? Issa is becoming more laughable every second of every day.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Pit one interest against another, force Democrats to choose--it's the Republican way.

And the interests are almost never related, which is what makes it so cynical.

[malaise]

2. Time to kick GTA out of office

USPS just exposed their ReTHUG asses again.

[nakocal]

3. Issa is just a low life liar

If you base an opinion on something that can be proven to be factually wrong, you are not stating an opinion, you are lying. Issa is nothing but a lying scumbag.

[Enthusiast]

4. K&R!

Issa is not becoming more laughable enough to suit me. When he becomes so laughable that he is voted out of office I will be satisfied.