{"id":27826,"date":"2017-05-31T13:43:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T20:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27826"},"modified":"2017-05-31T13:43:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T20:43:13","slug":"gop-rep-issa-coward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/31\/gop-rep-issa-coward\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Rep Issa Coward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Normally, when I have used the tag &#8216;GOP Fear&#8217;, it has referred to the manner in which Republicans instill fear in their sheeple to get them to goose-step without thought in blind obedience.&#160; However, since passing the latest Republican plan to kill Granny, aka TrumpCare or RepubliCare, Republican reps have cowered in fear of their constituents.&#160; Darrell may be the biggest coward of all.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0531Issa\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0531Issa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0531Issa.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"524\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A GOP congressman became an instant meme after taking to the roof of his district office to photograph protesters on the street below.<\/p>\n<p>Social media users drew instant comparisons between Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Michael Scott, the bungling boss from \u201cThe Office,\u201d following Tuesday\u2019s bizarre incident at his office in Vista.<\/p>\n<p>There were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2017\/05\/30\/was-rep-darrell-issa-really-hiding-from-constituents-on-a-rooftop-depends-on-whom-you-ask\/?utm_term=.40d0c38e327a\" target=\"_blank\">conflicting reports<\/a> as to why Issa decided to go up on the roof in the first place. The lawmaker himself said he\u2019d \u201cspent the morning talking with constituents [<em>liar delinked<\/em>] gathered outside the office\u201d before going up \u201cto take a quick pic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His opponents, however, alleged that he scurried up onto the roof because he was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeLevinCA\/status\/869607299295330304\" target=\"_blank\">\u201ctoo afraid\u201d to speak<\/a> with the protesters below&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/darrell-issa-rooftop-meme_us_592e6f8ce4b055a197ce3046\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Chris Hayes covered the story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all\" target=\"_blank\">All In<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_hayes_t1t2issaroof_170530\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Issa&#8217;s account has Republicitis and needs Dulcolax.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have no doubt that Darrell Issa coward.&#160; Furthermore, Darrell Issa asshole.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, when I have used the tag &#8216;GOP Fear&#8217;, it has referred to the manner in which Republicans instill fear in their sheeple to get them to goose-step without thought in blind obedience.&#160; However, since passing the latest Republican plan to kill Granny, aka TrumpCare or RepubliCare, Republican reps have cowered in fear of their <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/31\/gop-rep-issa-coward\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}