Obama mockingly takes his revenge on a Republican congressman

Rep. Darrell Issa.
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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has drastically changed his tune about President Obama now that he's fighting to hang onto his seat in Congress. After years of calling for the president's impeachment and engaging in birtherism theories, Issa decided to make his latest campaign mailer about how "pleased" he is that Obama "has signed into law the Survivors' Bill of Rights — legislation that I cosponsored to protect the victims of sexual assault." And, as the icing on the cake, the mailer featured a picture of Obama — the man Issa called "one of the most corrupt presidents in modern time" — sitting at his desk in the Oval Office.

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Obama was not having it. At a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraising dinner Sunday night, he called out Issa's attempts at a fair-weather friendship, and went so far as to say Issa was "Trump before Trump." "Now that is the definition of chutzpah," Obama said, hitting Issa's decision to send out flyers "touting his cooperation with me" because "his poll numbers are bad" as woefully transparent. "That," Obama added, "is shameless."

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