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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 offici ... More >>
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, Rohrabach ... More >>
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 ... More >>
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 rais ... More >>
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 ... More >>
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 Lor ... More >>
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 h ... More >>
Dana wears many hats"The running debate between faith and science, which has increased steadily in intensity this year, has two detours just as harsh but considerably less visible that demand more attention: That would be scientists against other scientists, and pseudoscientists who presume exp ... More >>
SuperLotto jackpot!Bribe Afghanistan warlords and tribal leaders with $2 billion in American taxpayer funds for their "good will" towards the United States.--Orange County Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's idea to win in Afghanistan, according to an article today in The Hill. Rohrabacher, ... More >>
A certain longtime Orange County Republican who has lived within the congressional district of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) is steamed--STEAMED!--over being left off the distribution list for the holiday greetings above from the Rohrabacher family.You want outrage, teabagger: This G ... More >>
Dana's broken ballDana Rohrabacher's unhappily guaranteed that Hilary Clinton would be president now. The Orange County Republican congressman has said that the American press corps would be embarrassed for portraying the Osama bin Laden-aiding Taliban in Afghanistan as evil. He's claimed that th ... More >>
"In 2010, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher vows to keep a close eye on his pocketbook."--Line from a Dec. 30 news article in the Newport Beach/Costa Mesa Daily Pilot by reporters Brianna Bailey and Mona Shadia. No Pilot readers left a comment or complaint about the observation that supplied us with the ... More >>
The following just arrived from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, whose "House Republican Hypocrisy Hall of Fame" now includes Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach). Sounds like a certain Surfin' Congresswoman is going to have to shop for an evening gown to wear to the inducti ... More >>
Dana: consistently inconsistentDana Rohrabacher might just be the most consistent member of Congress--consistently inconsistent that is. The Huntington Beach politician--who likes to be called "a patriot" or a libertarian but not so much a Republican--is interested in writing a federal law that p ... More >>
And Republicans claim they'd forgone pork...Delores Barr over at OC180News.com reports that Dana Rohrabacher twice called President Barack Obama a "Marxist" Thursday at the Seal Beach Chamber of Commerce breakfast. The line must have come after Rohrabacher fed himself. If you've seen the Huntingt ... More >>
Monday must have been an exceptionally slow day over at The Hill, a publication that covers politics in the nation's capital. Reporter Christina Wilkie wrote a sweet little post ("Rohrabacher's Triplets Get a Sweet Surprise") based on a Twitter entry made a day earlier by Dana Rohrabacher.Ac ... More >>
Drill Dana DrillReducing oil company offshore drilling will increase the number of offshore oil drill spills.--Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) expressing his logic this week to The Orange County Register's Dena Bunis in an article outlining efforts by California Democrat senator ... More >>
Gen. Rohrabacher: Movies are a fine way to learn military tacticsRecent news reports say Orange County Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher is co-sponsoring federal legislation that orders 3,000 National Guard troops "to secure" the U.S.-Mexico border.We should all take Rohrabacher's plan seri ... More >>
"This is not done with any type of belligerency."--The hilariously disingenuous statement earlier this month by Congressman Dana Rohrabacher while visiting Catalina Island to confront a lone Mexican consulate official for distributing ID cards in the resort town of Avalon. To launch his June 3 el ... More >>
"This morning when we taped our show for this weekend, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, a right down the middle conservative Republican from southern California, former speech writer for Ronald Reagan, looked at me and said 'almost all Republicans in the House of Representatives now believe that the ... More >>
Rohrabacher: Ignore my flip flopsIn a county with a history of sending buffoons to congress, Dana Rohrabacher is fast earning his way to the top of the embarrassing heap.Rohrabacher, the politician who avoided Vietnam War era military service, continues to pretend he's an expert on the war in Afg ... More >>
Blah, blah, blahAs always, overly confident political mouthpiece Tara Setmayer likes to talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and defend the indefensible . . . and, of course, gets an unquestioning forum on Fox News.That's good for her because she is the Washington, D.C. press secretary f ... More >>
Uncle Slammed: Be very afraidOrange County's self-proclaimed surfin' congressman who doesn't surf but plops his substantial stomach on a boogie board to ride non-threatening waves has found a new boogeyman for America.Yes, Dana Rohrabacher, the man who once assertively lobbied on behalf of the Ta ... More >>
Rohrabacher: exporting his nutty ideasOrange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher likes to fancy himself as this country's real secretary of state regardless of who is put in the position by a president. It's a comical stance for a man who who skipped Vietnam War duty, champions U.S. tax ... More >>
Dana: If I only had a heart, a brain, some courage..."Our government is taking the word of terrorists . . . "--Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher--who cowardly evaded military service during the Vietnam War and absurdly lobbied on behalf of the Osama bin Laden terrorist loving Taliban dur ... More >>
Rohrabacher The election's over and we have a confession to make.Every two years we fret about the possibility of losing Dana Rohrabacher as an Orange County congressman.Why?
Dana Rohrabacher likes to get worked up nowadays and shout the word, "patriot." And the man who skipped all Vietnam War military service but became an angry hawk after he'd passed the draft age isn't shy about hailing himself as one of our nation's leading patriots.Just ask the Cos ... More >>
Rohrabacher When it comes to healthcare reform you can count on Rep. Dana Rohrabacher to take a firm "no" stance, unless the so-called reform is sponsored by the insurance lobby.So it's a notable moment when a healthcare lobbying group enthusiastically praises Rohrabacher.It's even more notable w ... More >>
Glassy-eyed DanaDana Rohrabacher, a man whose notoriously poor judgment caused him to associate with a long list of people who became convicted felons, wants to become chairman of the Science Committee in the House of Representatives.According to a Nov. 30 profile in Politico, the Costa Mesa cong ... More >>
R. Scott Moxley told you in October about Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) having inserted himself in the violent 2009 coup that toppled the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya. Was Dana Rohrabacher Playing Kingmaker in Central America?To refresh your memory, th ... More >>
Rohrabacher: Takes pointers on race relations from the 1880sOne thing Know Nothings refuse to accept while railing about illegals is how, despite protestations to the contrary, their song is OLD. Even when stressing that LEGAL Mexicans are fine--it's just the ILLEGAL ones with whom they have a pr ... More >>
Rohrabacher: Takes pointers on race relations from the 1880sOne thing that Know Nothings refuse to accept while railing about illegals is how, despite protestations to the contrary, their song is OLD. Even when stressing that LEGAL Mexicans are fine--it's just the ILLEGAL ones with which they hav ... More >>
President Barack Obama's conciliatory, olive-branch-loaded, let's-all-work-together-for-the-sake-of-America State of the Union speech before both houses of Congress Tuesday evening failed to sway Representative Dana Rohrabacher."You think that us sitting together and singing 'Kumbaya' is going to ... More >>
Bi polar cap DanaI understand why Cameron Scott at the San Francisco Chronicle recently labeled Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher as a Republican representing "Riverside."Rohrabacher would be a better fit for our inland neighbors, who are regularly featured on disturbing episodes of ... More >>
Dana: Let's sabotage the USA for next 18 months!According to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, the Republican Party's "primary goal" for the next 1.5 years is not to reduce federal spending, pay down the ridiculous federal debt or cut taxes, the party's three chief public policy themes. No, Rohrabacher ... More >>
Dana: Government-sponsored propaganda must not be cut! For Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, it's whipty-do that low-income and elderly Americans will likely see huge cuts to food, medical and educational assistance in the upcoming federal budget.After making sure that Boeing's defense contracts remain luc ... More >>
Dana: Fighting for his own free lunch and having fun!In the last 32 days of 2010, Dana Rohrabacher's congressional campaign committee raised $3,400 and his wife, Rhonda, took $5,387 from it for the family under the theory that she is her husband's campaign manager, according to the Federal Electi ... More >>
"When you see $5 aspirin, it's not $5 aspirin, it's not corruption, it's the hospital trying to take care of the illegal alien who didn't have insurance."-Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach), explaining why his country needs his often-defeated legislation to have hospitals turn undocumen ... More >>
Proving the truism that even a broken clock is right once (or maybe twice) a day, U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) is lending his support to a proposed bill that, as its name suggests, would allow state residents 21 years or older to enjoy California's world-renowned marijua ... More >>
Rohrabacher to unemployed: Screw you until Jan. 20, 2013. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher skipped all Vietnam War service but hilariously insists he's "a patriot" and military genius nowadays.In the last year, Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa) has also established that he believes Congress shouldn't take a ... More >>
Rohrabacher: Mr. InconsistencyCongressman Dana Rohrabacher swears that he traded pot for booze in recent years, but still is able to conjure up doozy Twitter posts.For example, the Costa Mesa Republican wrote to one critic on Oct. 4, "Mirror, mirror on the floor. You're all cracked up."Yet, not a ... More >>
RohrabacherSince 1993, the wealthiest one percent of Americans have captured 50 percent of the nation's economic growth.If that fact alarms you, Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher knows who to blame for the 18-year-old crisis: a Chicago constitutional law professor. You may have heard of ... More >>
Rohrabacher "forgets" he lobbied for Taliban while it protected Osama bin LadenFor Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, the week proved to be yet another political mess.First, the Weekly exposed that Orange County's senior career politician paid his wife 50 percent of the federal campaign contributions ... More >>
Rohrabacher: I can pick 'em!Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Orange County's unabashed career politician, has affectionately coddled many slimy characters over the years.There was Sheriff Mike Carona, now a convicted felon.There was Huntington Beach Mayor Dave Garofalo, now a convicted felon.There was chea ... More >>
OC Congressman: Please pay no attention to my hypocrisyThis week, newspapers reported that Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher was outraged because President Barack Obama's administration is allegedly jeopardizing national security by sharing sensitive satellite technology with China.Of co ... More >>
Dana and Tom: Chickenhawks?Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has never been known for consistency, coherence or celebrating community--unless he's playing a banjo, wiping Frito crumbs from his plump jowl and screaming a song at a redneck convention in Garden Grove.But on Dec. 28, Rohraba ... More >>
Rohrabacher: He wears a pearl necklace.Ten hours after New Year's Eve, the 110-proof booze must have still have been flowing at the Costa Mesa rental abode of Dana Rohrabacher, Orange County's senior career politician.On Sunday at about 11 a.m., Rohrabacher wrote a Twitter post that shamelessly s ... More >>
For as much as he yaps about his own hilariously fabricated heroism involving international affairs, Dana Rohrabacher has nothing on fellow Orange County Republican Congressman Ed Royce.While Rohrabacher routinely employs a photograph of himself wearing Afghanistan grab and holding a weapon as in ... More >>
Dana Rohrabacher, Orange County's biggest living embarrassment since Rep. William Dannemeyer graphically described sex acts in an infamous House floor speech eons ago, can't seem to stop making nutty statements.In a late night Jan. 5 Twitter post, Rohrabacher claimed that President Bill Clinton's ... More >>
Rohrabacher: He wears a pearl necklaceAs expected, Dana Rohrabacher--Orange County's senior career politician--embarrassed the county during a Jan. 27 appearance on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher and then got into a Twitter fight with a viewer who called him "a pathetic old queen.""I'm happy, no ... More >>
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