hearings
We Feel Like Rand Paul May Be Forgetting A ‘Worst Tragedy Since 9/11′
Hey Rand Paul, whatcha doing? Just yelling at Hillary Clinton about how you totally would have fired her for lying down on the job during “the worst tragedy since 9/11″? That sounds fun. But we feel like maybe you have forgotten a bigger worst tragedy since 9/11? We wonder what it could be.
Louis Gohmert Travels Alllll Around The World To Hug Muslims, He Does
Now we wouldn’t want to let Michele Bachmann’s various House conspirators get off the hook for this “Muslim terrorists infiltrating the government because they are Muslim” summer-of-a-reelection-year stunt, would we? Here’s the dumbest person in the Western Hemisphere, Rep. Louis Gohmert, berating Jan “BIG SIS” Napolitano today about why she let a Muslim terrorist in [...]
GOP Goes With ‘Pompous Sausagefest’ Theme For Contraception Hearing
Here’s a fun game! Look at the above photo of the panel invited to testify at serial car thief Darrell Issa’s House Oversight and Government Reform hearing this morning on “religious liberty” and “freedom of conscience,” with regards to the ongoing contraception and women’s health donnybrook. Do you notice something… missing… at this tiresome preachfest [...]
Peter King ‘Reveals’ Foreign Terrorists Are Trying To Assassinate Him
Rep. Peter King (R-Xenophobia) is finally starting up his very special hearings today, in which he calls before his committee a bunch of Muslims so King, an IRA terrorist, can be filmed telling them their religion is pure murder. But that’s not all! To sweeten the spectacle, King “revealed” to Politico that he has been [...]
Kagan Fever: It’s Time To Pretend To Catch It
The Elena Kagan confirmation hearings have almost officially opened! Nothing but dead Robert Byrd and fearsome hurricanes on the cable news at the moment, with C-SPAN showing some Finance Committee hearing from last week and a 2005 tribute to Robert Byrd. But you can apparently click the CSPAN ad appearing here on Wonkette to see [...]
Here Is Your Consensus ‘Good YouTube Clip’ From The Goldman Hearing
Have you been watching the important Goldman Sachs hearing in John McCain’s Senate all day? Oh shutup, you clearly do not have a job. Here’s the “most bloggable” clip thus far, of Carl Levin, who is old and great, maybe.
John McCain Hates The Pentagon And The Joint Chiefs And The Chain Of Command And The Gays &c.
The funniest part is that he thinks he needs more than three minutes of speaking time. Most people can clock in even a significantly belabored “HEHNGNN?” in under two seconds. (Also, sometimes laws are passed that set a policy and then grant the relevant department/agency a certain amount of time to implement them, after which [...]
Bank-Owned Senators Will Yell At Bank-Owned Bernanke Today
This morning’s theatrical populist pretend-fest is already underway in the Senate, where Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is facing his first reconfirmation hearing before very very angry Republicans and Democrats, who have all sorts of “ideas” for the Fed in the future.
Republicans Just Give Up On Sotomayor
Well, for all their tuff talk on this racist Puerto Rican separatist who wasn’t even very smart, the Republicans have just rolled over and shown the tyrannical Sonia Sotomayor their little white bellies. After spending two months complaining about nothing but the occasions when she said the two most forbidden words in the English language [...]
A Children’s Treasury Of Wacky Depressing Clips From Today’s Geithner-Bernanke Hearing
Earlier we showed Barney Frank yelling at the goddamn Code Pink hippies on multiple occasions, but what else happened during this latest 94-hour grandstanding spectacle of a House Financial Services Committee hearing? Why the economy got saved, of course! Ha ha. (Kill us.) America’s C-SPAN watchers did, however, get to see such luminaries as Ron [...]
Alan Greenspan Admits Minor Fault To Congress!
So here are three major factors that contributed to our country’s world’s current financial misfortunes: prolonged periods of historically low interest rates (even negative real interest rates), the complete deregulation of such derivatives as credit default swaps, and encouragement from Washington that the inflated housing boom was nothing to worry about. It’s rare that you [...]
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