Memory problems
For a good time, watch GSA Administrator Lurita
Doan try to lie and not lie at the same time. It's the old Watergate "I have no
recollection" defense. Video here,
crueler video here.
These poor stupid Republicans just weren't smart enough to realize that a new day had dawned. In January of 2007, after the election, knowing full well there was a Democratic Congress just waiting to grill people like her, she allowed Karl Rove's people to come to the GSA and break the Hatch Act. According to witnesses, she wondered aloud how the GSA might conspire to keep violating the Hatch Act in service to The Party. That's what they say, anyway. But who knows, she says she can't remember. By the way, she does remember there were cookies on the table. I wonder who paid for those cookies. I assume it's a big no-no if GSA did.
You know, I'm getting on in years, and I can appreciate how you can forget things. If you asked me to remember some routine thing that happened to me a mere two months ago, I might not remember either. Of course, even at my advanced age, I do tend to remember things that are a tad out of the ordinary. Now, being a naive type of guy, I would have thought that the obvious impropriety of this sort of thing would have marked the day as special for Ms. Doan, but that presupposes that it was unusual. In Roveworld, maybe it isn't. The cruel Congressman cross examining her apparently didn't think to ask if this sort of thing was routine. If it is, then it's perfectly understandable that she didn't remember what took place in January as opposed to some other month or week. Maybe it really was just another day of corruption at the office.
Cast your mind back over the Clinton years- those by-gone years of non-stop special prosecutors and endless Congressional investigations. Can you think of a single [proven] example of a breach of public trust as outrageous as this? I won't accept Monica, private sex acts just don't count. Has something like this actually happened, we would have had another impeachment. But by today's standards, this is just a quaint little side show, a minor theme in a symphony of public corruption. These things are coming so fast and furious that we become overwhelmed and deadened. I wonder if this will even make the network news. Sure as shooting John Stewart or Colbert will pick it up.
More videos at the Speaker's Blog.The last one is interesting, in that it shows that the Congress is zeroing in on the use of outside email addresses by the White House. Here's the Rove Powerpoint they're all talking about, in case you're interested. 20070328151840-07177.pdf
These poor stupid Republicans just weren't smart enough to realize that a new day had dawned. In January of 2007, after the election, knowing full well there was a Democratic Congress just waiting to grill people like her, she allowed Karl Rove's people to come to the GSA and break the Hatch Act. According to witnesses, she wondered aloud how the GSA might conspire to keep violating the Hatch Act in service to The Party. That's what they say, anyway. But who knows, she says she can't remember. By the way, she does remember there were cookies on the table. I wonder who paid for those cookies. I assume it's a big no-no if GSA did.
You know, I'm getting on in years, and I can appreciate how you can forget things. If you asked me to remember some routine thing that happened to me a mere two months ago, I might not remember either. Of course, even at my advanced age, I do tend to remember things that are a tad out of the ordinary. Now, being a naive type of guy, I would have thought that the obvious impropriety of this sort of thing would have marked the day as special for Ms. Doan, but that presupposes that it was unusual. In Roveworld, maybe it isn't. The cruel Congressman cross examining her apparently didn't think to ask if this sort of thing was routine. If it is, then it's perfectly understandable that she didn't remember what took place in January as opposed to some other month or week. Maybe it really was just another day of corruption at the office.
Cast your mind back over the Clinton years- those by-gone years of non-stop special prosecutors and endless Congressional investigations. Can you think of a single [proven] example of a breach of public trust as outrageous as this? I won't accept Monica, private sex acts just don't count. Has something like this actually happened, we would have had another impeachment. But by today's standards, this is just a quaint little side show, a minor theme in a symphony of public corruption. These things are coming so fast and furious that we become overwhelmed and deadened. I wonder if this will even make the network news. Sure as shooting John Stewart or Colbert will pick it up.
More videos at the Speaker's Blog.The last one is interesting, in that it shows that the Congress is zeroing in on the use of outside email addresses by the White House. Here's the Rove Powerpoint they're all talking about, in case you're interested. 20070328151840-07177.pdf
Posted: Wednesday - March 28, 2007 at 07:15 PM
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