Wow! Great exchange in the CAFE Standards hearing

[TayTay]

The NHTSA Administrator was there and was held over because Sen. Kerry was late in getting to the hearing.

This exchange between KErry and this Bush appointee was great! Kerry pushed this person to find out why the Admin is still only using voluntaries instead of mandatories on setting CAFE Standards. (Yeah, Kerry had her for lunch in this hearing, what else is new!)

I will try and get the transcript tomorrow. Good, good stuff and another great day for the good Senator.

Archived hearing. This exchange will be about 2:00 hours in.
http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=1827

[Noisy Democrat]

1. Yes, it was awesome!

The hearing still seems to be going on. By the way, I'm capturing it using stream capture software, if anyone wants to keep it forever and the archived file is not downloadable.

[MH1]

2. Excellent!

I can't wait to watch this one!

[Mass]

3. It was excellent. If you have a chance, watch also Boxer and Snowe, a little bit before Kerry.

I did not watch before Boxer, so it is possible that the rest was worth watching as well.

The NHTSA Administator was really either totally incompetent or definitively decided not to answer any question.

[MH1]

4. Totally incompetent? A Bush appointee?

:rofl:

Say it ain't so... :eyes:

[beachmom]

5. Hmmm . . . there's no archive now, only a live webcast.

I guess we'll have to wait to catch that exchange.

[Mass]

6. The hearing just ended - It will be posted in a few hours, I imagine.

[ProSense]

7. That was excellent. Thanks for the link. n/t

[globalvillage]

8. Same question he asked Rice.

What's the PLAN? 2:23:50

She couldn't/wouldn't answer either.

Friggin amazing. None of these people have an answer. Hell, they don't have a damn clue.

Once again, Sen Kerry demonstrates what a disaster this admin is. Boxer was excellent also.

[beachmom]

9. For those watching the archive, Kerry starts at 2:11:30

It's blank before that. Kerry ends at 2:29.

Definitely wow! It's pretty damned obvious that yet another "Soccer Mom" has been appointed to a position she most certainly is not qualified for. She's a corporate type, who has coasted her way through life by non-stop bullshitting. Only someone as sharp as Sen. Kerry can expose her as the phony that she is.

"Cost/Benefit analysis" is code for doing whatever the auto industry tells the government to do. And Kerry was very apt to point out that in the end this hurts the industry by showing how behind they are the rest of the auto industry that is embracing improving CAFE standards (I can't believe American car companies are LEASING Toyota hybrid technology -- why are we so behind?).

He was excellent. I assume that woman wanted a drink after that grilling.

[MBS]

10. I just got around to watching this

God, he was fabulous!!!!!
Lautenberg (1:39:18) and Carper (after Lautenberg) are also good, especially on promoting trains.
As others said, Boxer and Snowe are very good, too.
But JK was amazing.