Roy Blunt : the mighty Clenis at fault again!

[dalaigh lllama]

from the Sunday St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

A Conversation with Rep. Roy Blunt

<snip>
Q. What about (Congressional) oversight in general?
A. In general, we're not very good. We hadn't had any experience with it under (President Bill) Clinton. In the first six years (of the Bush administration), institutionally there was no real sense of how this oversight works.

:wow: I'm actually speechless here...

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/newswatch/story/2F80799409E3D70B8625718300447A47?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2C%22roy%22+AND+%22blunt%22

edited to add on-line link

[BrklynLiberal]

1. When did Blunt have the prefrontal lobotomy?

[Jackpine Radical]

3. That's not fair.

You have to have prefrontal tissue before it can be lobotomized.

[pnwmom]

9. You have to have a brain stem before you can have prefrontal tissue.

[BrklynLiberal]

10. You are both correct. Sorry for my error.

[pnwmom]

12. Hi again, BrklynLiberal!

:hi:

[BrklynLiberal]

15. Hey pnwmom!

(We have to stop meeting like this. People are starting to talk. ;) ) :hi:

[johnaries]

2. Shouldn't that be "under Newt Gingrich"?

Since when was the President responsible for Congressional Oversight? Isn't that what Hastert is screaming about now?

[dalaigh lllama]

5. No, what he's saying

is that the Republicans don't know how to do Congressional oversight under Bush because they never did oversight under Clinton. Evidently they're all just slow learners.

Here's the lead up question to the above:

Q: Isn't a Republican controlled Congress partially responsible for what's happening in Iraq because of its failure to provide adequate oversight?

A: I think on this issue we've been better on oversight than we have on a lot of other issues. Members are engaged in this. They have constant briefings.

Q: What about oversight in general?

A: In general, we're not very good. We hadn't had any experience with it under (President) Clinton. In the first six years (of the Bush administration), institutionally there was no real sense of how this oversight works.

[Flubadubya]

4. Blunt needs to learn the old adage...

about keeping your mouth shut and having people wonder if you're stupid, or opening it and removing all doubt. That's got to be the lamest thing I have EVER heard a Congress Critter say, bar none! :dunce:

[Deja Q]

6. The oversight is, if Clinton screw up, it took *co an insane amount of

time to figure out there was a problem.

More amusingly, guess who has controlled all of Congress since 1994? Not Clinton.

Repubs have only themselves to blame. Period.

[dalaigh lllama]

7. Ah, but the poor lil darlings

just aren't sure how that congressional oversight thang is s'posed to work. It's hard work, don't you know.

[Old and In the Way]

8. I thought they were all exhausted from all that oversighting they

did when Clinton was in office. No trumped-up charge was too small to launch an investigation. No slimy innuendo was beneath the Republican majority to spend millions to investigate. The only terror Republicans were obsessed with in the 90s was the Clenis.

[Marr]

11. ...huh? Did I imagine that whole impeachment thing?

That seems like some pretty extreme "oversight".

[pnwmom]

13. It was all a bad dream.

[ComerPerro]

14. Is he reffering to how Congress tried to completely shut down Clinton

how they wouldn't let him pass anything or get hardly any judicial nominees out of committee, or how they tied up our resources and time and spent hundreds of millions of dollars investigating him on crimes based on heresay and phony accusations?

[benddem]

16. If that wasn't so sad

it would be hilarious. My god these people are nuts.