Subject: Dana Rohrabacher

• The Many Sides of Dana Rohrabacher

  Another Oscar Night has come and gone, and once again, Dana Rohrabacher has to settle for a being just another congressman from Orange County, instead of a famous screenwriter. It's not like he hasn't tried to break into showbiz. Sam Rosen of The American Prospect Online once catalogued Rohrabacher's sadly neglected efforts as a screenwriter (scroll down to "Dana Rohrabacher, Auteur"). There's a Cold War thriller, The Killing Zone, which featured "healthy doses of commie fighting and randy sex

  March 8, 2006

• Mr. Rohrabacher writes a check

  The LA Times reports that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Surfin') will be digging out his checkbook to return the $23,000 former producer Joseph Medawar paid the Surfin' One for an option on a movie script. Medawar, whom Rohrabacher assisted in making connections in D.C., is going to need that money-- he's just pled guilty to swindling "about 50 investors" out of "roughly $3.4 million". Of course the real victim in all this is the movie going public, whose chances of ever seeing Baja, the Rohrabacher

  May 17, 2006

• Rohrabacher Cuts and Runs

  Congressman Dana Rohrabacher had his ass handed to him yesterday in not one but two debates with opponent Jim Brandt. At least, I think he did. It's kinda hard to find out. Why is that? It's because the only mention of Rohrabacher in the past day's press is as Tan Nguyen's former opponent. Damn it. I told you Tan was nothing but a dangerous distraction. Oh well; you Nguyen some, you lose some. It doesn't matter what Brandt wins, whether it's arguments, debates, or friggin' triathlons--his race

  October 24, 2006

• Rohrabacher, the Reg & the Accused Boy Molester

  >The Orange County Register, the place where local Republican politicians see their press releases in print, reported on Friday that Congressman Dana Rohrabacher is steaming again. This time Rohrabacher is upset that he's been linked to an accused serial child molester: Jeffrey Nielsen. The Congressman lied in the "newspaper" article, not once but twice: Fairy Tale #1: Rohrabacher said Nielsen worked for him for a few months after Nielsen graduated from college. Reality: Rohrabacher handpi

  November 5, 2006

• Rohrabacher's Appalling Flatulence

  In case you missed it, you can find video of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Surfin') speculating about the effects of dinosaur flatulence here. And no, booze was not involved in the congressman's ramblings. Probing the effects of dinosaur farting is just something Rohrabacher sees as part of his official duties, one of the ways in which he serves the interests of his constituents. The question about the noxious gas emitted by thunder-lizards was part of the noxious gas Rohrabacher emitted during la

  February 13, 2007

• Emasculating Dana

  Judging by this photo, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Not at all Drunk in the Photo) would not make an attractive woman, but apparently the good folks of Bush administration disagree. It seems some of them find him so evocative of things feminine that they have trouble remembering what gender he really is. Back in January, we noted that Congressman Rohrabacher was feeling emasculated by the arrogant behavior of the Bush White House. Now it looks like the Bush Justice Department has decided

  March 20, 2007

• And now a word from Dana Rohrabacher on Mexicans, the Liberal Left, Lucy & Charlie Brown

  Congressman Dana Rohrabacher in the U.S. House of Representatives on 5/22/07: A tsunami of illegal aliens is sweeping into our country, crowding our classrooms, closing our hospital emergency rooms, unleashing violent crime, and driving down wages. This is not theory. It is a harsh, threatening reality borne out not by numerous academic studies, but by the life experiences of the American families from California to Georgia and from Iowa to New Jersey. Our middle class is being destro

  May 26, 2007

• FOO Fighter

  We're re-posting this Oct. 10, 2005, post because: a) A reader wondered why the Weekly had never connected slime-ball GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff to our smurfin' Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach). As the post shows, Clockwork had (and Moxley will mention it in Thursday's edition). 2) For reasons only the gremlins of cyberspace know, the item, "FOO Fighter," never got transferred over from our old database to our--cough, cough, cough--new improved database. thirdly) You'll need w

  January 10, 2006

• Aw, FOO-ey!

  Hats off to the LA "By God" Times' politico reporter Jean Pasco. Finally, a daily newspaper that circulates in Orange County has drawn a connection between criminally tainted GOP superlobbyist Jack Abramoff and wack-packin' Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach). Way to go, Jean-o! Of course, in typical Times/Pasco fashion, honed from her years doing the same at the Orange County Register, the piece was totally Rohrabacher-sided (she couldn't find one critic?), the most-troubling Ab

  January 10, 2006

• Dana Disses Dubya?

  Our old pal Victor Infante turned us on to this Nation blog posting about our favorite Surfin' Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Oily Slicks) snuffing the Prez Dog in Irvine yesterday.

  April 25, 2006

• MoveOn vs. Rohrabacher

  This just in, from MoveOn.org: Rep. Rohrabacher Accepts $40,785.00 From Drug Companies; Puts Drug Company Profits Ahead of Seniors Huntington Beach MoveOn Members Urge Rep. Dana Rohrabacher to Cancel May 15th Medicare Sign-Up Deadline Constituents will hold "Caught Red-Handed Check Deliveries" outside Rep. Rohrabacher's office HUNTINGTON BEACH - On Thursday, May 11, residents of Huntington Beach and coastal cities will hold a "Caught Red-Handed Check Delivery" outside Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's

  May 10, 2006

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Is An OC lawyer also a Slumlord?

  Relax, It's Just a Game: Scott Glover and Matt Lait at the Times reveal today that Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies have been playing on-duty law-enforcement competitions. According to an internal department e-mail obtained by the reporters, one game was called “Operation Any Booking,” in which the goal was to see who could make the most arrests during a 24-hour period in poor minority neighborhoods not far from the Orange County border. Other competitions have included “Operation

  October 4, 2007

• Rohrabacher Going Down To Defeat in November?

  After pondering a posting tonight at theliberaloc.com by Gila Jones, I'm guessing that Orange County Republican pollsters have worrisome data that raises concerns about the safety of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's re-election chances in November. An enigma wrapped in lies, a temper, quixotic brain functions, shameless self-promotion, questionable personal habits, margarita breath and a dress code likely suggested by a well-meaning but drunk Frank Mickadeit, Rohrabacher is, by any reasonable me

  March 25, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  September 19, 2008

• Rohrabacher went in drag to solve already solved RFK assassination?

  While the nation struggles with two wars, financial disasters, devastating hurricanes, regular political sex and ethics scandals, ridiculously priced gas and global warming, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) has been busy attempting to singlehandedly solve the already solved 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. According to a September 25, 2008, Pasadena Weekly article by Carl Kozlowski, Rohrabacher believes that the Los Angeles Police Department has for 40 year

  September 30, 2008

• Letters

  June 22, 2000

• Once Term Limits Champ, Rohrabacher Wants 11th Term in D.C.

  Early in his political career, Dana Rohrabacher hailed himself as a term-limits champion for federal politicians and spoke passionately about the inherent evils of one person staying in power for an extended period of time. Fast-forward 20 years: Rohrabacher, the conservative Republican seeking an eleventh term in Washington, D.C., is now mute on term limits. Several election cycles ago—when the congressman still spoke to (okay, yelled at) me, I asked him for an explanation for his change

  October 17, 2008

• FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. ROHRABACHER

  December 25, 2003

• Rohrabacher: No Need to Make Gays "Comfortable" About Selves

  The full quote from Dana Rohrabacher at an Oct. 21 debate at Orange Coast College, where our favorite far-out, far-right Republican congressman out of Surf City explained his support for the anti-same-sex-marriage initiative, Prop. 8: "I would suggest we not change the definition of marriage in order to make a small number of people comfortable about themselves." For the full context, watch the clip.

  October 28, 2008

• Rohrabacher Miffed That Border Agents Off Bush's Pardon List

  That two names didn't make outgoing President George W. Bush's list of presidential pardons and commutations announced today has Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) steaming mad, although he noted Dubya "still has time to do the right thing."Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who are currently in prison for shooting and wounding a Mexican drug smuggler, are no-shows on the Bush list. Freeing the agents has been Rohrabacher's great cause ever since the shooting. And so th

  November 24, 2008

• Rohrabacher's 'Prayers Answered' with Bush's Clemency for Jailed Border Agents

  On the dark side for fans of equal justice, President Bush granted an 11th hour clemency for two ex-federal border agents who shot an unarmed Mexican drug dealer, destroyed evidence, covered up a crime scene and filed false reports about what happened. On the bright side, a senior White House official indicated it would be Bush's final act of clemency so ex-Orange County Sheriff's Mike Carona's felony conviction should stick. At least through the appeal.Carona and former U.S. Border Patrol agent

  January 19, 2009

• Daddy Rohrabacher Says He Knows Best In Afghanistan, Again

  Dana Rohrabacher, our Twitter-loving, immigrant-bashing, surfer-dude congressman published an op-ed yesterday in the Washington Times. It's about, of course, his favorite subject: Afghanistan -- specifically, the extent to which he knows more about Afghanistan than anyone else. To be sure, Rohrabacher is an expert on the topic. He's got a track record in the country, and he's quick to bring it up:In the 1990s, House International Relations Committee Chairman Ben Gilman, and I along with other ve

  March 4, 2009

• Defense Contractor Airtech, a Big Rohrabacher Contributor, Is Under Investigation for Fraud

  October 23, 2008

• Surf City Mayor Debbie Cook Takes on Dana Rohrabacher, OC's Weirdest Republican Congressman

  September 18, 2008

• Is It Time for Ted Crisell?

  November 29, 2001

• Separate and Unequal

  October 3, 2002

• Rogue Statesman

  September 12, 2002

• Dana and the Porn King

  OC Christian politician takes money from pornographer

  April 5, 2007

• It's a Quick Read 34

  Orange County Register: A hushed county awaits the jury verdict in Steve Rocco's trial for alleged ketchup theft. . . . County officials are talking settlement with ex-Sheriff, current-felon Mike Carona's former right-hand man George Jaramillo. . . . Orange County may be among the first in the state to require ignition locks to stem drunken driving. . . . Try the cockroach floating in the dishwater, it's excellent: Restaurants you can't afford--Charlie Palmer at South Coast Plaza

  April 16, 2009

• Selfish, Liberal, Single!

  December 23, 2004

• Drunk With Power

  November 4, 2004

• Rohrabacher Gets a Taste of the Lash

  October 28, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  September 23, 2004

• Terrorist Blackout

  January 29, 2004

• Mr. Taliban

  December 25, 2003

• Whats His Line?

  December 11, 2003

• Blood, Sweat & Large Body Counts

  December 11, 2003

• Just added to the Up in Smoke Tour: Great White!

  March 6, 2003

• Danas Follies

  February 27, 2003

• Its Her Party and Shell Sigh if She Wants To

  October 10, 2002

• Dr. Frankenbacher

  October 4, 2001

• We Love to See You Wretch!

  July 19, 2001

• Laugh-In

  April 5, 2001

• Daily Affirmation

  August 17, 2000

• Globaloney

  February 17, 2000

• C-SPAM

  October 21, 1999

• Rohrabacher Raises Serious Allegations About Mistreatment of Uighurs

  Photo by Jack GouldRohrabacher: Against at least some torture.The White House is relieved a home was finally found for 17 Muslim Uighurs from China who were held without justification at Guantanamo Bay, but their leading champion in Congress, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach), is still raising serious allegations about their mistreatment in the U.S. military prison in Cuba.Members of an ethnic group from central Asia and the Xinjiang province in western China, 22 Uighurs were picked up

  June 16, 2009

• Dana Rohrabacher is Going to Be Pissed

  Dana Rohrabacher believes missiles should be pointed at China that way.A day after Rep. Dana Rohrabacher sent a blistering letter urging President Barack Obama "to unambiguously condemn the Communist Chinese government's violent crackdown on peaceful Uyghur protests in the Xinjiang province of China," Radio Free Asia reports that an outspoken Uyghur economist has gone silent and his whereabouts are unknown after police summoned him from his Beijing home. "Police have been watching my home for

  July 9, 2009

• Internet Shocker: Dems Blast Dana for Swine Flu Snoozing

  Where would the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) be without crazy congressman Dana Rohrabacher? He can always be counted on for fun and games and it seems like every day we get a press release from them about the guy--almost as many emails as we get from the Republicans bashing Loretta Sanchez. Today's offering is ominously titled "Representative Dana Rohrabacher Says No to Preparing for H1N1 Flu Epidemic."The hook for this screed is today's H1N1--that's swine flu for us non-sc

  July 9, 2009

• To Rohrabacher's Delight, Supreme Court Considers Freedom for Uighurs

  Photo by D. Robinson/Voice of AmericaCongressmen William Delahunt and Dana Rohrabacher with Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer.​Much to the chagrin of the Obama administration and applause of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach), the U.S. Supreme Court said today it will consider whether judges have the right to release into the U.S. detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who have been determined not to be a terrorist threat.It's not that the Surfin' Congressman wants former terror suspects flock

  October 20, 2009