NO COURAGE FROM OUR REP - IT TAKES 56 MEN OF COURAGE

Rep. Darrell Issa is finally getting what he has long craved: subpoena power. From his new perch atop the committee responsible for oversight investigations, the California Republican will be able to demand any document he wishes and summon anybody to appear before him - no small thing for a man who recently referred to President Obama as "one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times."

Even so, there's one thing Issa says he won't subpoena: Barack Obama's birth certificate.

(ARTICLE 2 Section 1 clause: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.)


"Mine is not the committee that asks where the president was born," Issa said in an interview. "It doesn't ask what ministers that he went to think. All that stuff is a distraction. I'm not the overseer of the president."

"Our committee is the committee of stopping government from taking away your liberties, government from exceeding its authority, government from keeping your business from expanding and growing, government from spending your money less efficiently than you would spend it yourself," Issa said. 

Asked whether he would pursue political prosecutions of the administration, Issa said: "I'm sure going to try not to. If there's a violation of the Hatch Act [which prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activities], my committee will deal with it because we have an obligation, but I'm not getting up every day and trying to create one."

Now that Issa, 57, a Lebanese American who grew up working-class but is one of the wealthiest House members, is set to assume the chairmanship, his makeover is well underway.

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/18/AR2010121803396.html

LET ME GIVE YOU BACKING FROM THESE GREAT MEN WHO STOOD FOR FREEDOM:

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. —And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

John Hancock.	Frans. Lewis.
Samuel Chase.	Lewis Morris.
Wm. Paca.	Richd. Stockton.
Thos. Stone.	Jno Witherspoon.
Charles Carroll of Carrollton.	Fras. Hopkinson.
George Wythe.	John Hart.
Richard Henry Lee.	Abra Clark.
Th Jefferson.	Josiah Bartlett.
Benja Harrison.	Wm. Whipple.
Thos. Nelson jr.	Saml Adams.
Francis Lightfoot Lee.	John Adams.
Carter Braxton.	Robt Treat Paine.
Robt Morris.	Elbridge Gerry.
Benjamin Rush.	Step Hopkins.
Benja. Franklin.	William Ellery.
John Morton.	Roger Sherman.
Geo Clymer.	Saml Huntington.
Jas Smith.	WmWilliams.
Geo. Taylor.	Oliver Wolcott.
James Wilson.	Matthew Thornton.
Geo. Ross.	Wm Hooper.
Caesar Rodney.	Joseph Hewes.
Geo Read.	John Penn.
Tho M: Kean.	Edward Rutledge.
Wm Floyd.	Thos Heyward Junr.
Phil. Livingston.	Thomas Lynch Junr.
Arthur Middleton.	Lyman Hall.
Button Gwinnett.	Geo Walton.