Former Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) sees a bright side to Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) changing his plea to guilty in his campaign finance fraud case.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1266868
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1266868
Good lord, who went and dug up Issa?
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Oh, Darrell. It’s good to be white, isn’t it?
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Stay in DC fellas. Well, at least until we can kick you out. We don’t want you out here
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Good lord, there really is no limit to the insanity.
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“the likelihood of him committing a crime in the future being pretty low?”
Right.
So lets see. A Rep. who failed the public trust, knowingly is to be let off to pick up road trash. Okay, I am fine with that with a couple of provisions. One, he is on camera every day, a web site is dedicated to “What Happens When A Politician Screws the Public” and anyone can check in to see what job is Hunter doing today?
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Well we could just go full Victorian workhouse on Hunter and make him work to pay for his keep in federal prison. And he’ll have to stay there until his debt is paid off.
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“Issa floated the idea of Trump extending clemency to Hunter if he is sentenced to prison on March 17 and argued that it would ‘balance the public’ good by saving imprisonment costs.”
The party that spent years screaming “Lock her up!” sure seems to have a touching concern for penal costs all of a sudden.
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Looks like Issa is trying to set up a precedent for the next holder of the CA-50 congressional seat.
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Isn’t Issa a murderer? We definitely would have been better off if he were in jail.
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Are we better off spending $60,000 a year to put him behind bars or are we better off with him doing community service…
I vote for “behind bars.” Just on the (admittedly small) chance that it might discourage other Repug malfeasance.
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Just come out and say it out loud. There is a different set of rules and standards for republiCONS. We all know it.
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Marginal cost of adding another prisoner is way less than $60k, but the deterrence value of putting high-profile pols in jail would be worth every penny.
Also, why is anybody asking Darrell Issa – who is himself a convicted criminal and suspected in several more crimes – about this in the first place?
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We could save even more money in salary by not filling Hunter’s seat in that very red district.
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Caucasian justice is the be best justice of all.
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No one had to dig Issa up, he’s been floating around out there like the Pacific Ocean garbage patch.
And Darrell being Darrell I’m sure he’s in the northern Pacific garbage patch.
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Just ask Brock Turner.
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And you’ll be arguing the same for all the non-violent drug offenders clogging up the jails and prisons in the country saving bazillions amirite?
Oh wait, most of them are brown people…nevermind.
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Hey, there’s an easier cost saving function for our govt. Cut out all tRump’s golfing at his resorts that thus far have cost us $114 million and the loser’s only been in office for 3 years. We could do one better and have him repay this money.
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I am so old I can remember when Republicans argued for the harshest sentences possible as a way of deterring future crimes and criminals.
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