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Daily Blah for... Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Issa Irony
As a gourmet of irony, I deeply appreciate the words that spewed forth from Congressman Darrell Issa's mouth yesterday. "If two major Republicans remain on the ballot," he said, "I'd advise you to vote 'no' on the recall."
Stop and swill that quote around your mouth for a moment. Inhale its delightful bouquet. This is the guy who paid $1.6 million of his own money to organize the recall petition and plunge California into its current madness. Without Darrell Issa, there would be no recall election. He already pulled out of the race to replace Gray Davis the moment Arnold entered. This was the preliminary irony, an appetizer, an amuse bouche. A multimillionaire movie actor, it seemed, was going to get a free ride into the governor's mansion on a check cut by the rather less wealthy Issa.
And now, because his party can't unite and Arnold isn't going to win, Issa doesn't want to play any more. He's taking his recall and going home. You have to laugh at his fit of pique. You have to laugh, California, because otherwise you'd have a fit of pique at the $65 million of taxpayer money he caused to be spent on this nonsense, and then you'd probably end up as an angry mob, millions deep, outside his San Diego home with pitchforks and lynching rope. And we wouldn't want that, would we?
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