Postcards from the Kook Fringe


This is just sad:

In the Capitol basement yesterday, long-suffering House Democrats took a trip to the land of make-believe.

They pretended a small conference room was the Judiciary Committee hearing room, draping white linens over folding tables to make them look like witness tables and bringing in cardboard name tags and extra flags to make the whole thing look official.

Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) banged a large wooden gavel and got the other lawmakers to call him "Mr. Chairman." He liked that so much that he started calling himself "the chairman" and spouted other chairmanly phrases, such as "unanimous consent" and "without objection so ordered." The dress-up game looked realistic enough on C-SPAN, so two dozen more Democrats came downstairs to play along.

This would be funny if they didn't delve into moonbattery and start talking about impeachment.
The session was a mock impeachment inquiry over the Iraq war. As luck would have it, all four of the witnesses agreed that President Bush lied to the nation and was guilty of high crimes...
Cuckoo, cuckoo... Of course then there's the anti-Semitism.
The session took an awkward turn when witness Ray McGovern, a former intelligence analyst, declared that the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel and military bases craved by administration "neocons" so "the United States and Israel could dominate that part of the world." He said that Israel should not be considered an ally and that Bush was doing the bidding of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

"Israel is not allowed to be brought up in polite conversation," McGovern said. "The last time I did this, the previous director of Central Intelligence called me anti-Semitic."

Where's Jim "Blame the J-E-W-S" Moran when you need him? Oh wait, here he is...
Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.), who prompted the question by wondering whether the true war motive was Iraq's threat to Israel, thanked McGovern for his "candid answer."
Moran was one of the first Congressmen to blame Israel for Gulf War II. He even went so far as to apologize for his blaming of the Jews, right before he blamed them again. Even the Washington Post wondered how he keeps getting re-elected:
Challenging Moran should be the easiest job in America. After all, this is the congressman who -- you'll need a deep breath to make it to the end of this sentence -- grabbed an 8-year-old boy in a parking lot because Moran thought the kid had threatened him; borrowed $25,000 from a drug company lobbyist five days before agreeing to co-sponsor a bill that would help that lobbyist's client; took a $447,000 loan from a credit company four days before signing on to legislation that the company was pushing; got into a shoving match on the House floor with one colleague; threatened to punch another congressman in the nose; and just last year told an audience that there'd be no war against Iraq without the support of the Jewish community. Whew.
But I digress. Back at the mock impeachment hearings, the kooks were getting restless:
At Democratic headquarters, where an overflow crowd watched the hearing on television, activists handed out documents repeating two accusations -- that an Israeli company had warning of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that there was an "insider trading scam" on 9/11 -- that previously has been used to suggest Israel was behind the attacks...

Conyers's firm hand on the gavel could not prevent something of a free-for-all; at one point, a former State Department worker rose from the audience to propose criminal charges against Bush officials. Early in the hearing, somebody accidentally turned off the lights; later, a witness knocked down a flag. Matters were even worse at Democratic headquarters, where the C-SPAN feed ended after just an hour, causing the activists to groan and one to shout "Conspiracy!"

Karl Rove, call your office.


Category:  Left-wing Conspiracy
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Theatre of the absurd.

Posted by: Steve Scudder at June 20, 2005 3:55 PM

Representative Conyers was reelected with 93% of the vote by his Detroit constituents last time. His district has one of the highest crime rates in the nation. My parents lived on the edge of his district until 2000. After my dad's passing, my mother was mugged two blocks from her home in the parking lot of a grocery store.

Thousands of Conyers' constituents live behind barred windows. Criminals walk the street constantly looking for opportunities. After my mother's incident I went to the Detroit police and asked for help (I live 200 miles away), they told me to get her out as they could not protect her.
I did.

This is what Conyers and the Great Society policies of the Democrats has brought to once great American cities.

Posted by: kjo at June 21, 2005 8:20 AM

Maybe we should start asking ol' "feces walking" conyers why the district he represents is a gulag!!

Wow a gulag that selects its own jailors, who'd a thought!!

Posted by: wayne at June 21, 2005 1:47 PM

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