Bush & Company

Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is one of President Obama's most vicious foes. Vowing last November to "investigate, investigate, investigate" the president, he, among other Republicans, is on a relentless rampage to destroy him.

One of the richest members of Congress, his wealth is particularly questionnable. Making no attempt to hide it, he's engaged in a multitude of business and financial enterprises with strong suggestions of conflict of interest, as Eric Lichtblau in the New York Times put it August 15, 2011, his "dual careers, a meshing of public and private interests rarely seen in government." As our country is set up, holding a seat in Congress is especially advantageous to one's business ventures.

Watch out, Darrell---someone might decide to relentlessly investigate you. . .

In November, 2010. . .

One of the president's fiercest foes,
Rep Darrell Issa thinks he knows
Exactly how he can create
A scandalous Obamagate.

He vowed that he'll investigate,
He'll search with all his fearsome power
Until he's found some vestige our
Obama might have left behind,

Some tiny thing that he can spin
If not an actual crime or sin;
But let's suppose he never can,
There's simply nothing he can find,

This lawmaker-cum-businessman
With such a single-minded plan.
It's best that he should watch his step,
The all-too-brazen US rep. . .

(Could it be that he just forgot
He, too, could be put on the spot?)