Posted on 05/11/2010 11:41:39 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
WASHINGTON—Executives of the three main companies connected with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill pointed fingers at each other in Senate testimony Tuesday, as lawmakers criticized them and federal offshore-drilling regulators.
The first of a round of congressional hearings was convened by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in the same room used for hearings into the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, the supposedly unsinkable ocean liner—a coincidence noted by Sen. Robert Menendez (D., N.J.), a critic of offshore drilling.
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How do these protesters get into these hearings? Tea party people were thrown out of offices even...
Good point!
How are the American people to have any respect for this Congress when they continue to allow these clowns to attend these hearings?
Why don’t these people bother Obama since he’s continuing Bush’s “War For Oil” ??
Public hearings by definition are open to the public, first-come, first-served.
They’ll throw you out if you’re verbally disruptive, but not simply because you are dressed like a tramp (I don’t what would happen if you smelled like a tramp).
I’m sure it would have been the prerogative of the chair to insist that these protesters sit down if they were blocking the view of those behind them and to toss them if they refused to do so. The failure to do so likely reflects the concurrence of the chair with the sentiments expressed in the signs.
just imagining how rich Ollie North could be if he became a Consultant on how to handle political cretins in Congressional hearings
Are you referring to the executives of the three main companies connected with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill?
And we didn't ban travel by ocean liner after that, now did we Bobby???
That darn GWB continues to screw up the world! :)
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