Darrell Issa the statesman?

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Politico:



The White House will need more accountants, not lawyers, when the GOP takes over the House.

It wasn’t the Obama administration that was corrupt in managing the stimulus, it was Congress’s mistake to fund it so freely.

That's the message Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is offering a few days before he becomes the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sounding a measured tone miles from the persona he projected under Democratic control.

During his two years in the minority, Issa was the strong-handed Republican who grabbed headlines despite having little power. He forced subpoenas, talked tough about the Obama administration and became one of the more prominent Republican lawmakers outside his party’s leadership.

Now, during his final two days before the Oversight gavel is his, Issa is trying to show that the committee under his control will not conduct a perpetual witch hunt against the Obama administration. It will be a rush to cut back on government spending via doing away with waste, Issa signaled on three separate Sunday shows this week.

Issa said he would not investigate the White House's alleged job offer to Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) to nudge him out of his state's Senate primary — it turns out, he said, such offers are common, even if wrong.