PLAME HEARING : what the hell was up with WESTMORELAND (R-GA)?

[radfringe]

From Bradblog

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4281

Hates it that "we don't have time for more questions, since there's so many conflicting issues"

Asks, "Would you say your husband was a Democrat or Republican"? W-P says "though he comes from a Republican family, I believe he'd say he's now a Democrat"

Asks, ,"Are you a Democrat or Republican?" P-W uncomfortable, doesn't feel she should have to answer, but then says directly "Yes, Congressman, I am a Democrat."

first he whines there's not enough time to ask "important questions" - then he spends his time determining which political party Plame and Wilson belong to... and finishes up by whining there's not enough time


I smell a talking point emerging: PLAME-WILSON playing partisan politics. Entire leak a political Plot by Democrats to embarass the president. Waxman Hearings just a political ploy

[mmonk]

1. That's pretty much been one of their talking points.

Partisan politics. We'll see how many people buy their position or notice it's them that are practicing it.

[Buzz Clik]

10. Westmoreland is a friggin' genius.

This has been about partisan politics from the beginning. Why was Plame outed in the first place?

They should have given him all the time he wanted -- it would have blown up in his face.

[Lerkfish]

2. republicans are lower than sandworm excrement.

that bout sums it up.

[crappyjazz]

3. I was waiting for him to ask her if she name all 10 Commandments

:rofl:

[monarch]

19. That was exactly my thought too!

Colbert absolutely exposed him as a moron. What kind of idiot can't name more than 2 commandments? Nevermind somebody who's pushing legislation to promote them.

[tanyev]

24. Oh, how sweet it would have been if she'd said "If you can name

all Ten Commandments, Congressman, I'll be happy to tell you my political affiliation."

[shain from kane]

26. He wanted to make sure that he didn't break the the Eleventh Commandment.

Ronald Reagan's Eleventh Commandment: “Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican”

[Arkansas Granny]

4. That's exactly the reason he was asking that question. I wonder

what the reaction would have been if she had stated that both she and her husband were staunch Republicans.

[Tennessee Gal]

5. I wish Waxman had pointed out that it was the Republicans

own fault for not having more people there to ask questions. It was their own fault for not having more time. Every questioner got equal time.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. He did, at one point, state that there were several people who

did not attend.

"I thank all the members for their participation. I wish that we had all the members here to participate, but all those members were invited and had adequate notice. But this is a Friday."

BTW, there is a transcript here: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Plame_hearing_transcript_0316.html

[Greybnk48]

6. I was puzzled by those questions because

quite frankly, my interpretation/reaction to his questioning was that it seemed to emphasize that they were targeted because they were both Democrats! I walked away with the idea that his questioning may have backfired. What a putz.

[Buzz Clik]

11. agreed

[madokie]

7. of course the repukes from davis on were trying their best to set the stage for talking points

talking points only too, no interest whatsoever in us finding out what we already suspected to be true and of which they knew to be true. My first reaction whenever I realize someone I am talking to or dealing with is a repuke I want to slap them, the urge gets stronger each day too, just hope I can refrain 'cause the last thing I need is a lawyer bill, court costs etc.

[madrchsod]

8. i listened to that and wondered to myself....

are the people who voted for him as clueless as he is? i really hate to think of the mindset of the people who elected him

[TroglodyteScholar]

14. Not my rep., but...

...yes, I believe his constituents are, on the whole, every bit as moronic as he is.

[napi21]

23. Not ALL his constituents are as dumbas he is,but MOST ARE!

My son lives in Westmoreland's district. He complains all the time about living in the middle of SHEEP who simply have their own beliefs and won't listen to anything else.

[sutz12]

9. I have heard it said that Plame/Wilson "had it in for Bush" before.

The conservative wingnut that said this implied that they hated Bush BEFORE Plame was outed, and of course, the whole thing is a left wing plot against the Bush admin. He basically equated Valerie Plame with a suicide bomber willing to fall on her sword to "get" the pres.

[tetedur]

16. He "had it in for Bush?"

And he proved it by TELLING THE TRUTH? That Wilson sure is one evil bastard.

[Tanuki]

13. Yes, really hypocritical because the Repubs blocked having hearings for years.

At least he and others are finally having a chance to ask questions. I didn't hear him complaining about not having a chance to ask anything at all when his cronies were in the majority.

[Graybeard]

15. Why didn't Repubs hold this hearing when they were in charge?

They could have had all the time they wanted if they had investigated the matter themselves. Westmoreland is a doofus.

[radfringe]

17. Why didn't Repubs hold this hearing when they were in charge?

probably because they believed bush when he said he was looking into it...and then the repubs toasted bush with a 21-glass salute of kool-aid

[rodeodance]

18. He just used the hearing for Repug political points. Shameful

[tsuki]

20. Westmoreland is the idiot from the Blackwell/Iraqi contractor's

hearing that tried to give credence to the multi-layered subcontracting scheme going on.

Paraphrased - As a contractor in Georgia, I know this is how subcontracting works.

He was talking about the Blackwell charging ES $600 a man, ES charging regency $800 for that man, Regency charging the Pentagon $1000 for the same (amounts approx.)

"The documents show that Blackwater security guards were paid a minimum of $600 a day that the company, when it prepared its billing statement, marked up invoices by at least 36 percent. Blackwater sent the invoices to Regency Hotel, a Kuwaiti company, which resubmitted the invoice to ESS, the food service company. ESS added its costs and profit to Halliburton which prepared a new bill that included another layer of profits and cost, and then sent a final bill to the Pentagon without ever disclosing Blackwater's role in providing security services for its convoys."
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14250

He must have built government buildings in Georgia. That is not the way it works down here.

[sutz12]

21. He's also the one that Colbert burned...

Westmorland said he wanted the 10 commandments posted in public buildings so Colbert asked him to name them.

That was hilarious. He could barely name 2 or 3 of the 10 (actually closer to 12 if you read all the different versions).

[lisa58]

22. If more republicans showed up...

...they would have had more time for questions.

[texpatriot2004]

25. Republican nukes are the worst. (Sarcasm On) Her job was not

political nor should it be.

[Gold Metal Flake]

27. Apes tossing grass.

Just like lower primates tossing up dirt and grass to create confusion in a fight, the Pukes want any smidgen of bullshit ready to fling should too much truth be publicized. Reason? follow...

One big-assed revelation yesterday was the testimony that no investigation into the leak occured at the White House, despite statements to the opposite.


From DKos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/17/0641/83535

The White House once declared that:

"There is a process that the administration has in place to address the leak of classified information."

But during yesterday's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the Plame leak, we learned from James Knodell, the director of the Office of Security in the White House, that the process was ignored.

< pathetic Notell spilling the beans >

And when did the White House explain that they had a process for investigating leaks of classified information? In October, 2003, while responding to questions about the Plame leak:

"There is a process that the administration has in place to address the leak of classified information. Make no mistake about it, the President has always held the view that the leaking of classified information is a very serious matter. And the process was followed."



Simply put, they lied. They lied in a very public and obvious manner, which is the only kind of lie anyone has a chance of nailing onto them what with all the grass and dirt flying around.

Take the lie and slap it on a Retreasoncan's face. Hard.

[KelleyKramer]

28. Not enough time? He has had FOUR YEARS to ask questions...

How much time does he need??

This is the same idiot who said the ten commandments were the most important thing in the world to him..

So important.. that when asked, he could not name them.

Total idiot.

[WinkyDink]

29. He should have been MADE TO FEEL STUPID when he complained

that the CIA should have told Novak that VP was covert, "because how else would Novak know not to break the law?!" (paraphrased)

YEAH---Except that THEN the person TELLING NOVAK would have been BREAKING THE LAW. So the CIA guy went as far as he legally could, in trying to get Novak to drop it.

[alfredo]

30. We can turn it around on them by saying she was outed

because she is a Democrat.