This jackass is on a roll the last two days.
Via The Blaze:
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) on Wednesday likened House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) to Joseph McCarthy, the senator who famously accused several Democrats of being Communists during the “Red Scare” period in the 1950s.
McGovern was speaking on the House floor about Issa’s effort to bring contempt charges against Lois Lerner, the IRS official who has refused to testify to Congress about her role in the IRS targeting scandal.
“We’ve been down this road before. We’ve seen this kind of witch hunt steamroll through this very Capitol,” McGovern said. ”But not even Joseph McCarthy was able to strip away an American citizen’s constitutional rights under the Fifth Amendment, as Chairman Issa is trying to do.”
“This exercise that we are engaged in today is nearly identical to the actions of Senator McCarthy,” he added. “It was wrong then, it is wrong now. This is sad, because it demeans this House of Representatives.”