Is Shays Losing It?

Video Link (Shays) (0.00 / 0)

About 2h55m into this we get one of an assorted Shays harangues. He really is a piece of work.

Plug this into realplayer.

rtsp://video.c-span.org:554/project/energy/energy031907_climate.rm

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by: Scarce @ Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 04:41:38 AM UTC

Shays & Bill O'Reilly (4.00 / 1)

Following up on his boorish performance last month, Shays is revealing himself to be a Bill O'Reilly-style bully.

To file a complaint about the destructive judgement of the League of Conservation Voters in endorsing Shays and to encourage them to shun him in 2008, contact Tony Massaro, Senior Vice President for Political Affairs and Public Education, at tony_massaro AT lcv.org

Here's testimony from the hearing.

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by: mikect @ Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 04:55:45 AM UTC

Hearing on C-SPAN right now (0.00 / 0)

For any other insane late-nighters, this hearing is being re-broadcast on C-SPAN right now.

I'm listening to the stunning performance of Darryl Issa (R-Bushland) right now -- he's talking about how he's befuddled about Pluto and not beholden to the car alarm industry... (?) and other strange ramblings intended to praise the Bush lackey who edited scientific findings and attempt to discredit the actual scientist on the panel.

Dr. Hansen from NASA is quite dry and calm and is handling all this ridiculousness quite well so far.  He's not getting defensive and is sticking to science and the scientific method.

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by: Maura @ Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 05:01:42 AM UTC

Shays opening comment (4.00 / 1)

Okay, just caught the first set of Shays comments, which included a bizarre intro citing "two inconvenient truths", one of which is that some Republicans don't accept global warming and the other being that some Democrats don't accept the inconvenient truth of the "Islamist terror threat".

Bizarre.

The rest of this round of questioning seemed to be Shays seeking to establish that the 2001 National Academy report on global warming wasn't very definitive and left a door open for the possibility that "the debate wasn't over" on global warming, which Dr. Hansen attempted to refute.

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by: Maura @ Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 06:11:23 AM UTC

Unbelievable! (4.00 / 1)

I was watching all this on C-Span, and my jaw hit the floor when I heard Shays start  interrogating this man. The man Shays is questioning, Hansen, had the courage to alert the nation to the dangers of global warming, and Chris Shays is grilling him on whether he has a RIGHT TO SPEAK!

This reminds me of the moment during the 2006 campaign when Shays claimed that there was no torture at Abu Ghraib.

He has truly gone off the deep end. 

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by: CaptCT @ Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 12:45:13 PM UTC

This is only a suprise if you've never met Shays (0.00 / 0)

Trueblue and I both considered Shays a moderate and a pretty reasonable Republican until we spoke with him at Yale 2 years ago.We praised him for news reports that he was standing up to Tom DeLay but to our suprise he defended DeLays leadership and went off on a tangent about how Democrats allow Al Sharpton in our Party.When we explained that Al Sharpton wasn't a member of the Dem Leadership in the house ad didn't set the Houses agenda he still didn't get it.

I really believe Shays is Mentally ill.His incoherant speech the night of the election,the "sexring" comment and many other instances are evidence of a very sick individual.Maybe the blood dripping from the hands of a supposed coscientious objector finaly got to him.

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by: ctkeith @ Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 12:47:05 PM UTC

I find this ironic as Shays (0.00 / 0)

emits greenhouse gasses every time he opens his piehole.

who voted for this putz?

oh right.. we did.

*we being Connecticut.. I'm in Murphy country, thank God!

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by: nolopro @ Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 13:38:33 PM UTC

LCV also endorsed Lieberman (0.00 / 0)

I just delete all the emails I get from them since that time.

The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

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by: connecticutyankee @ Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 18:55:11 PM UTC

Full transcript of Constitution quote (4.00 / 2)

As the person whose orginal transcription is the one being quoted around the blogs, I felt it was necessary to go back and get the fully accurate quote. Here's the passage, which comes at 2:56:40 in the hearing.

Mr. Shays: Dr. Hansen, I think that we won't have a world to live in if we continue our neglectful ways. And so, I don't disagree one bit with what you believe and how you're expressing it. I just want to state that. And frankly I don't know if I would have called you before this hearing.

But you're here, and I'm going to deal with what you say because I find it, I find it puzzling and I find your answers candidly inconsistent. And it's not "I got you." I'm just trying to understand. When you had Mr. Issa ask you a question you didn't want to say that the imagery to Hitler's Germany was inappropriate. With Mr. Saud you did. And now you're saying it's only the Soviet Union.

We have a young man who made a mistake and he said, "You know, I made a mistake and let me get on with my life."

What puzzles me that you don't even want to admit a mistake when you make them. And you seem to stand up waving the Constitution as if, somehow, you have no restraints, at all! "I'm an American, I can say anything I want." I'd like to just ask you about that.

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by: The Cunctator @ Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 20:55:38 PM UTC

Oops (0.00 / 0)

Saud = Souder.

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by: The Cunctator @ Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 21:11:36 PM UTC

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