Compare and Contrast
Nov 21st, 2005 at 3:01 pm by Susie
Do you ever get the feeling that to this gang, stealing is the point?
WASHINGTON — Back in the mid-1990s, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, aggressively delving into alleged misconduct by the Clinton administration, logged 140 hours of sworn testimony into whether former president Bill Clinton had used the White House Christmas card list to identify potential Democratic donors.
In the past two years, a House committee has managed to take only 12 hours of sworn testimony about the abuse of prisoners at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison.
The jarring comparison reflects the way Congress has conducted its oversight role during the GOP’s era of one-party rule in Washington.
While congressional committees once were leaders in investigating the executive branch and powerful industries, the current Congress has largely spared major corporations and has done only minimal oversight of the Republican administration, according to a review of congressional documents by The Boston Globe.
Careful now, or falafel Bill will accuse you of hating Christmas. And start a boycott. Put you on his list. Threaten you with a loofah.
We should all send O’Reilly loofahs or felafels for the Holiday’s. Preferably felafels, since they decompose very fragrantly.
But only after we’ve contributed to Susie’s front-end fund.