Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) It’s a strange compliment, but we’ll take it. In a congressional hearing earlier this week with Kanat Saudabayev, Kazakhstan’s foreign minister, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) used the District’s system of government as a model for what emerging democracies can do to ensure that minority political parties are represented. “I want to share with you something here today,” he said, speaking of Kazakhstan’s limited democratic system. “Washington, D.C., is exactly the…