Congressman, pause...Congressman, pause...

[LuckyCharms]

Congressman, pause...Congressman, pause...
Congressman, pause...Congressman, pause...
Congressman, pause...Congressman, pause...
Congressman, pause...Congressman, pause...

Whitaker begins his answer to each question with this bullshit.

That right there is eating up 10 to 15 seconds.

[lame54]

1. someone needs to crank up the thermostat

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

2. He's wigging out.

[Windy City Charlie]

3. Also

"As I sit here today"

[bluestarone]

4. YES that too!

ALL pre-programed REHEARSED!!!!!

[Blue Owl]

5. Bueller... Bueller...

Ol' Whitey's doing his Ben Stein impersonation...

[joshcryer]

6. He was coached. Also there's a 3-4 second cadence.

Every time he speaks. He was coached and told to count to three between sentences and responses. Also, he's been taking heavy drinks of water, calculated, and slow, which is killing time. It's typical.

[Dennis Donovan]

7. That's his strategy. Stall vs telling truth

If we were in the midst of a smoking game (I don't drink, and I'm judging by your avatar you'd have a seat at the table ), and the bong trigger-words were "as I said in my opening statement", we'd be raiding the Little Debbie factory as we speak because we would be WAY-baked!

[LuckyCharms]

9. Hey Dennis!

Story about my avatar...

When I signed up, I had trouble picking an avatar, so I kind of picked this one in a hurry. I used to smoke weed quite a bit (especially after I quit drinking 6 years ago), but I have not smoked in awhile. No particular reason...I just kind of mindlessly stopped.

The timing of your post is perfect, because as I saw your post, I was thinking about pain relief. I have a situation here where I am usually in soul crushing pain. I have a huge bottle of opiates, and a huge bottle of muscle relaxants. I pretty much refuse to take more than one of the opiates per day, because I am paranoid about getting addicted over the long term. So I have been thinking about starting to smoke again.

[Dennis Donovan]

11. You won't get an argument from me!

My pain is psychological/physical (in that order, as my mind starts my adrenal glands to go off on their own), and the only thing that stops that from happening is the same thing Officer Friendly told me would lead to debauchery in the early 70's.

Dear Officer Friendly;

My condolences on your death from cirrhosis in your 60's.

[SunSeeker]

8. He is basically committing obstruction of justice by stalling questioning.

Plus, his claim of executive privilege is utter bullshit, since Trump has not invoked executive privilege. I hope they don't let him get away with that shit.

[northoftheborder]

10. His answers to those questions do not make sense. Very confused answers.

I think he DID talk to some one, sometime, in the inner, or middle, or tangential circle of White House people about his opinions of the Mueller investigation and/or his possible placement in the Justice Dept.

[PatSeg]

12. He couldn't be much more obvious

Patience is wearing very thin among the committee members. I know I want to smack him upside the head.

[Windy City Charlie]

13. Now

Now he's having a hard time remembering the questions. "Can you repeat the question?"

[OnDoutside]

14. That's what Zuckerberg did too.