Darrell Issa on Crossfire today...

[imax2268]

I saw this today and it made me think...if Issa is saying that the problems with California is the amount of money coming back to the state...then why have the recall...I think Begala brought up a good point about this whole recall being a fraud...

Any thoughts...?
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BEGALA: Congressman Issa, your governor-elect -- hard for me say it, but he is -- he won fair and square -- was on Capitol Hill today. Here's one of the many things that he said. Take a look.

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SCHWARZENEGGER: I will be back many times. I didn't want to say exactly the line, "I'll be back," but, I mean -- but I will be back many more times, believe me.

(LAUGHTER)

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BEGALA: Please help our folks back home understand why people, say, in Missouri City, Texas, where I grew up, should send their tax dollars to keep your governor from making hard decisions.

REP. DARRELL ISSA (R), CALIFORNIA: Well, Paul, in Missouri City, Texas, you get 92 cents on the dollar back. In San Diego, California, we get 76 cents on the dollar back. The bottom line is, we're sending money to your district by comparison.

We could go a little further. And, in fairness, Massachusetts, you're in the same boat we're in, although you don't give quite as much. You have states like New Mexico. For every dollar they send us, we send them back $2.37.

Now, governor-elect Schwarzenegger is not trying to skew to any extreme level. However, if Texas can get 92 cents on the dollar it sends in back, why can't California get to 80 or 85 cents? It's over $1 billion. It's $2 billion per percent. So, if we just got $7 billion -- 7 percent more, got from 76 to 84 percent, we in fact would take care of our deficit by just getting back what's fair.

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BEGALA: I'm sorry. I wanted to give you plenty of time to make that case, because it's rather complicated, but it's an important argument. But if it's true, then the recall was a fraud. That means California's problems are the result of federal funding formulas, right, Congressman? As the man who started the recall and funded it, wasn't it a fraud?
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Anyone want to comment...or is this not worth discussing...?

[Democat]

1. He hung Issa with his own words!

Issa, are you lying now, or were you lying then? One way or another, Issa is a liar.

[imax2268]

2. That's what I was thinking...

[Catch22Dem]

3. Funny Funny Funny!!!!

I should've been watching.

[janekat]

4. gotta love that Begala - he is the best!

n/t

[livinontheedge]

5. We already knew the recall was a fraud.

Wingnuts will do anything to overturn democratic victories.

[ComerPerro]

6. I had figured

that California would recieve aid once they got a Republican governor.

Its disgusting.

[eleny]

7. Sometimes it's such a bitch being right, isn't it?

I feel your pain.

[imax2268]

8. Yea...it all seems so funny...

The look on Issa's face said it all...

I knew for a fact that Arnie would be pandering to Washinton to bail out the state...no offense to those CA DU'ers...I know the majority of you voted against Arnie...

I just had a feeling that when he wouldn't answer questions on how he was going to fix the states money troubles...he was simply going to beg Washington for a bail out...

And then today to hear Issa say this crap...pathetic...

Rethugs should be ashamed of themselves...just my honest opinion...!

[gratuitous]

9. Did Issa really say that San Diego is a net donor?

Gee, that big naval base there must not get any funding from the federal government. I wonder where Clownie got his information?