Here's a little quiz for you. What do the following names have in common?
Christopher Dodd
Tim Johnson
Jack Reed
Charles Schumer
Evan Bayh
Tom Carper
Robert Menendez
Daniel Akaka
Sherrod Brown
Robert Casey
Jon Tester
Barack Obama
Richard Shelby
Robert Bennett
Wayne Allard
Michael Enzi
Charles Hagel
Jim Bunning
Mike Crapo
Elizabeth Dole
Mel Martinez
Bob Corker
If you said they were all United States senators, you are correct. But that's not what we're here for today. They all have something else in common, except one. Do you know what it is?
Twenty-one of the 22 senators named on this list are members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. One is not. Do you know who it is?
Here's a hint. John Hinderaker at Powerline noticed something today. One of the senators on the list made the following statement today:
Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don't have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon.
Here's a hint. The senator who said that today is the one who is not a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Who is it? It wasn't Crapo, even if the statement was crap. It wasn't Tester testing the bounds of propriety. It wasn't even Chuck Schumer, slayer of IndyMac and the king of self-aggrandizement on Capitol Hill.
Nope, it was Barack Obama.
5 comments:
quit picking on the colored kid.
Good grief. Is he really so nervous when put on the spot that he gets his facts all jumbled up? Or is he the kind of person who will lie in the moment without weighing the consequences? Or, perhaps the worst, is he someone who will lie because he feels like he isn't playing by the same rules as everyone else?
Obama is committing gaffes day after day and I'm beginning to wonder just how connected to reality he is.
And you want to be my latex salesman?!!!
There must be some nuance there that we are simply too dense to understand.
Of course, Dan. That must be it.
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