Lurita Doan hearing replay on C Span 1.. . . a must see...

[annabanana]

I had missed the beginning of this last time. I didn't know how aggressively she had started the session. It's pretty good, considering how she had her ASS handed to her later that day!

[Eurobabe]

1. Dipshiterita, she'a real piece of work.

[annabanana]

3. Seriously, I hope anyone who missed it tunes in.. . .n/t

[TahitiNut]

17. I wouldn't even hire her as a file clerk. She's abominable.

She's the kind of nightmare that totally destroys working groups. I've seen people like her (not as bad) and they've created total disaster areas in terms of cooperative working relationships.

[Wilber_Stool]

2. Just tuned in.

When did it come on?

[lisa58]

4. It started at 10:00 am eastern

[Wilber_Stool]

6. Thanks.

[capi888]

5. Thanks for posting

Saw some of it last night..it is a real cat fight! Pugs were really mad...and was very revealing...they are scared...

[whistle]

7. Liar, liar, pants on fire...Tom Davis R-Virginia

[TahitiNut]

11. Davis is doing a shilling job beyond any tolerance..

He's INCAPABLE of making this political hack look even close to competent .. or even close to telling anything resembling the truth.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

18. The "funny" thing about Davis is that he throws Rove under the bus, time and again in this hearing

to save Doan's ass.

[TahitiNut]

20. He's pulling out all the stops in distracting from the tangible and palpable corruption.

It makes no difference who he uses to distract attention - Rove isn't at the witness table so it makes no difference what Davis might imply about him. He's trying to make Doan look like a "good hearted" and "nurturing soul" that's her caricature. She plays this melodramatic role in a way that shows long practice ... completely evading any issues of competence by claiming "good intentions." She's really a sociopath and I'd avoid her like the plague in any work environment. She's the kind of sneaky back-stabber I've seen too often. (I've seen this from both males and females, but females seem more adept at this game.)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

26. Yes, yes and yes. eom

[Marie26]

32. He's implicated too. nt

[Marie26]

33. dupe. nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. She started off as a woman who appears to have gotten by her whole life using her charms, and

she was finally confronted with the honest goodness consequences of her actions.

[TahitiNut]

12. There's little question that she's played the "helpless but kind" card and worn it out.

She shames her sex. She's all fluff and no substance. She does not demonstrate an iota of competence. She's a moralizing, sanctimonious, peck-sniffian partisan piece of shit.

[malaise]

9. So did I

She's a piece of work what with her 200,000 contribution to the GOP andher high praise for President war crimnal.

[TahitiNut]

10. I. Can't. Believe. What. I've. Been. Watching. O.M. F. G.

This is THE most corrupt, inept, lying, piece of GOP shit I've seen yet. She makes 'Brownie' seem like a Nobel Prize winner.

WHO the FUCK did she FUCK to get this job?? She doesn't have the SLIGHTEST credibility. None. Zero. Nada.

Incomprefuckinghensible!

She claims complete failure of memory when pressed by the Dems ... and THEN cites chapter and verse what she did that day!! She's a fucking, lying, piece of shit.

[TahitiNut]

13. Mica and Davis are doing EVERYTHING they can to distract and smell up the hearing.

This inept turd (Doan) is, without question, a total political hack ... and she's demonstrating to anyone with half a brain how corrupt she is ... and Mica and Davis are trying to divert attention from her abysmal corruption.

[whistle]

14. Lurita Doan is now using plausible deny-ability, but her effort is completely

...transparent.

"No I don't, this is not my email and is not addressed to me."

Now Dan Burton, R-Indiana just thanked Ms. Doan for the $200k contribution to the RNC so she knows her job as GSA Director is secure.

[cspanlovr]

15. Here's Dan Burton to make a screaming ass of himself.

[TahitiNut]

16. Red herrings and bullshit. He's talking about the HUNDREDS of subpoenas

... thrown at the Clinton/Gore adminstration ... but there've been ZERO in 6 fucking years of Cheney/Bush.

[capi888]

19. Got that Right...

Pugs in control, was trying to sink the President. Karma is being accepted to easily by the Pugs..all of them are REALLY pissed off!!! LOL..trying to cover their ass!

[Patsy Stone]

21. Dan Burton wanted Socks' Fan Club List.

He can take credit for a lot of those subpoenas. :eyes:

https://www.democrats.org/a/2007/03/republicans_sou.php

FELINE FAN CLUB SCANDAL

Republicans Called For Answers on The First Cat’s Fan Mail. Dan Burton publicly questioned the use of White House personnel to answer letters addressed to the Clinton family pet.

Dan Burton’s Letter to The Clintons: As a member of the new Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, I would like to inquire what the standard practice is for the White House to respond to mail directed to 'Socks,' your cat… How many of these inquiries were responded to over the past two years? Who pays for the postage? If it comes out of the White House mail budget, why are the taxpayers being made to pay for your feline's fan club?

[TahitiNut]

23. Well, Socks was obviously a political operative directing the GOTV effort among felines.

I can see how that would generate a legitimate interest from Burton. After all, he's insane. :shrug:

It's my clear recollection that Burton was the most overt and rabid witch-hunter since McCarthy (and I'm not even a partisan Democrat). His behavior during the Clinton years was among the most reprehensible I've seen in fifty years of watching government ... going back to the Kefauver hearings and the HUAC hearings.

[Patsy Stone]

28. Obviously, the Clintons were using Socks

to indoctrinate our children into thinking that the Republican Party was corrupt. In addition, Burton probably thought they called on him for many dirty jobs including (but not limited to) covering up the real truth about (and all documents related to) Whitewater, Filegate, Travelgate and Vince Foster's death. He kept them hidden in the last place they thought Congress would look -- his litter box.

[libnnc]

22. My SO is a federal employee

Per the Hatch Act, she is not allowed to campaign for a political party (even wear political buttons etc) on the job or actively raise money for a political party. The agency she works for (FAA) has made it clear that there would be a strict enforcement of the Hatch Act (particularly targeting Democrats).

Now, how is this twit, Lurita Doan, exempt from this?

[TahitiNut]

24. It's hard for her to have 'mens rea' without 'mens.'

:evilgrin:

[Marie26]

25. This woman needs to be the new face of the GOP

She needs to be as famous & as loathed as Michael Brown. Everyone needs to know her name: Lurita Doan, Lurita Doan, Lurita Doan. She so perfectly embodies all the qualities of the Bush Administration: corruption, political hackery, cronyism, self-righteousness, lies, arrogance and total incompetence.

The YouTube video of her testimony already has over 78,000 views! Email it to your favorite Freeper.

Hearing on Allegations of GSA Misconduct: Braley Questions -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VePqzIrR-ao

[TahitiNut]

27. It's really UNBELIEVABLE. I didn't follow it on DU on Wednesday ...

... since I don't get CSPAN3 and my 112kbps Internet connection makes online viewing clumsy.

I couldn't imagine, until seeing this, anyone heading up the GSA (an ESSENTIAL control on federal spending) being so totally evasive, sleazy, arrogant, and incompetent. She really does make Brownie look good. It appalls me to see someone like this heading up the GSA. I don't think they could possibly find someone less worthy of safeguarding the services and materials contracts processes for the fed. I have experience using the federal procurement processes and I've got to say this is way beyond appalling. It'd be like having a bank guard assisting bank robbers because, after all, he's a "nice guy" and (in best marketing voice) they might use the bank to deposit what they stole.

[annabanana]

29. It IS pretty damn bald, isn't it.

And yet, not a peep in corporate media...

[Marie26]

31. I think that was the point

That's a good analogy. IMO, it's more like the bank robbers installing a member of their gang as a bank guard. Or installing a fox to guard the henhouse. IMHO, this woman was a corporate mole, who was placed in this position to shut down the Inspector General & assure that the flow of crooked contracts could continue unabated. And also to assure that the Bushies could use the powerful GSA to serve their own political interests. She did her job WELL, as far as what her actual mission was. We keep thinking that these people are supposed to serve the public interest, being that they're in the public sector, but that's not how the Bush Adm. thinks of things at all. They are there to serve Bush's interests & Bush's interests only.

It's interesting that the chief of staff for the GSA, David Safavian, was convicted on felony charges related to his connections to Jack Abramoff. Safavian was also the White House's chief procurement officer. "The jury found him guilty of obstructing an inquiry by the inspector general's office of the GSA and of lying to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, a GSA ethics officer and the GSA inspector general. He was acquitted of obstructing the Senate's probe." Lying & obstructing a Congressional inquiry. That sounds familiar, doesn't it? After Safavian went on trial in May 2006, I think the White House realized that they needed to control the head of GSA to assure that more dirty contracts & corruption weren't uncovered. Doan was appointed the new GSA head that same month. A Bush Adm. contractor herself, she would make sure these contracts were not investigated further. Her primary mission was stopping the Inspector General's Office - this office had uncovered Safavian's corruption, and audits GSA contracts for fraud, waste & abuse. Doan actually wanted to cut the IG's funding and OUTSOURCE the office to private contractors! :rofl: Wrap your head around that one. Talk about foxes guarding the henhouse.

Tom Davis, Doan's big defender, got campaign donations from Safavian & Abramoff, and crusaded to fire the prior GSA chief of staff, Angela Styles, who was known for her independence & reluctance to award contracts based on Congressional pressure. Safavian's wife, Jenifer Safavian, is actually an aide in Rep. Tom Davis's office. Of course he defends Doan - if she goes down, she might take him with her. It's all a racket. It's all about the embezzelment of taxpayer money to corporate cronies & campaign coffers. The corruption is so deep & systemic that we might never find the whole truth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Safavian

Ex-Aide To Bush Found Guilty

Washington Post
Wednesday, June 21, 2006

A federal jury found former White House aide David H. Safavian guilty yesterday of lying and obstructing justice, making him the highest-ranking government official to be convicted in the spreading scandal involving disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Safavian, a former chief of staff of the General Services Administration, was convicted in U.S. District Court here of covering up his many efforts to assist Abramoff in acquiring two properties controlled by the GSA, and also of concealing facts about a lavish weeklong golf trip he took with Abramoff to Scotland and London in the summer of 2002.

This was the first Abramoff-related legal action to go to trial and face a jury. Several legal experts said the case could embolden federal prosecutors to seek additional indictments against cronies of Abramoff, who has been cooperating with the Justice Department since pleading guilty in January to corrupting public officials

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901859.html

Where Did Safavian Work Again?

You wouldn't know it from the coverage of David H. Safavian's conviction yesterday for lying and obstructing justice, but some of his criminal activity actually took place while he was working at the White House.

Safavian managed to avoid being frog-marched out of the White House by resigning three days before his arrest.

And it's true that the underlying acts in his case -- helping to assist corrupt super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff in acquiring some properties and accepting a lavish weeklong overseas golf trip -- took place while Safavian was the Bush-appointed chief of staff at the General Services Administration. ...

Oddly, Safavian's White House connection is barely mentioned in most of the coverage today, even though one of the pieces of evidence introduced against him was actually a note he wrote out on White House stationery.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/06/21/BL2006062100810.html

Lawmakers demand answers from Doan on proposed IG cut
- http://coburn.senate.gov/ffm/index.cfm?FuseAction=LatestNews.NewsStories&ContentRecord_id=63b0dd9f-802a-23ad-45a7-78693826a64b&IsPrint=true

[Wilber_Stool]

30. This Brian Miller.

He has a pretty good memory, doesn't he?
He doesn't seem to suffer from WMD. (Whitehouse Memory Disorder)