Posted on 09/08/2011 2:20:40 PM PDT by NoLibZone
In addition to those Republican lawmakers who have announced – motivated, it seems, by disrespect — that they will decline to attend President Obama’s Thursday night jobs address to a joint session of Congress, Republicans are also taking the additional step of inviting a man whose company the Obama administration is investigating for possibly breaking the law.
Henry Juszkiewicz, the CEO of Gibson Guitar Corp., will either sit in the House Gallery as the guest of his member of Congress, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. (members of Congress each get to invite one guest to sit in that balcony), or he will be invited to sit in the speaker of the House’s box for the speech, Republican officials tell ABC News.
As of Wednesday afternoon, officials in House Speaker John Boehner’s office were trying to decide where he should sit.
Last month, the Nashville company was raided by federal officials for importing ebony from India that the Justice Department says was “fraudulently” labeled to evade Indian export laws. The Justice Department says the mislabeling constituted a violation of a 2008 law requiring companies to detail information about wood they import, and to abide by the relevant laws of foreign nations.
No charges have been filed in this recent case, but the federal government first raided Gibson in November 2009 because of an earlier shipment of ebony from Madagascar that was also alleged to have been exported illegally from that country.
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I hope he gives Barry a one-finger salute!
Need to have the CEOs of Soylndra there in handcuffs.
“Disrespect”?It’s nothing more than a”RE-RUN”!!!!!!!!!!!!
” Republican lawmakers who have announced – motivated, it seems, by disrespect — that they will decline to attend “
The R Senators will all attend, as Harry Screed has scheduled a vote immediately following the “speech.”
PLEASE give him the speaker of the house box behind Obama.
Priceless! I may have to watch this debacle after all.
I’m hoping for another “You lie!!” moment.
I hope he whips out a LP Studio and Marshall amp on 10 and drowns out the sob.
I’ll give $1,000 to the charity of their choice to any member of congress that moons Barry during his speech.
They’re breaking with tradition for tonight’s speech. Normally at a joint session, the House the Sergeant at Arms introduces the president; tonight it’s Jimmy Hoffa.
Gee...they have time to worry about a guitar company buying wood from dead trees, but it’s too much effort to worry about real criminals crossing our borders and sh*tting all over our laws.
Priorities, priorities...Great bunch of idiots we got running the country.
2012 can’t get her fast enough.
A polite suggestion to get acquainted with the assault on Gibson by this administration. This is tyranny.
My bad, brother; I wasn’t clear in my comment.
Re-reading my comment, I should have specified the “they” I was referring to - Obama and company - hence the “great bunch of idiots running the country”.
As a guitarist myself, I understand exactly what the admin is doing to Gibson. They’re doing the same thing to the rest of the country...
And I’ll reiterate - 2012 can’t get here fast enough.
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