Is there no consequence for such misuse of taxpayer money?

Rachel Maddow has reported on an act by Rep. Darrell Issa and his Committee on Government Oversight that is so outrageous.    There should be some recompense for such political perfidy, but short of being voted out of office at the next election I don't know what it could be.  No chance for impeachment in a Republican majority House.

  We need an oversight committee for the Oversight Committee.   Regardless of your opinion about the ACA, no hearing should systematically eliminate one whole side of a controversy.

Here's the story.    Issa does not like the Affordable Care Act, and he is doing everything in his power to undermine it -- or to kill it, if he can.    His committee is holding what they call Field Hearings.   The whole committee goes on a field trip to various places around the country and holds hearings. 

So far, they've had them in North Carolina, Georgia, and Arizona.   They invite people who have had a negative effect from Obamacare to come and testify.   People who might have some positive experience to report are excluded.    They only want to hear the bad stuff.

Now that word is getting around, people are showing up and protesting.   Issa has been forced to take note of the protests.   But instead of inviting some of them to testify at the hearings, he has suggested that they can send him an email.

This of course is all at the taxpayer's expense.    Ferrying a whole committee to distant parts of the country for the hearings -- which will produce a report that cannot have any objectivity.

What a waste of money, what a distortion of the truth.    And this is just one of the constant ways in which Darrell Issa tries to undermine the Obama administration. 

Ralph