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A Children’s Treasury Of Wacky Depressing Clips From Today’s Geithner-Bernanke Hearing
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Earlier we showed Barney Frank yelling at the goddamn Code Pink hippies on multiple occasions, but what else happened during this latest 94-hour grandstanding spectacle of a House Financial Services Committee hearing? Why the economy got saved, of course! Ha ha. (Kill us.) America’s C-SPAN watchers did, however, get to see such luminaries as Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann and Maxine Waters confuse and/or irritate the hell out of Geithner and Bernanke (mostly Geithner — he scowls!) Plus there was this crazy guy from Illinois who Bernanke shot down during a rare burst of self-confidence. Hooray for Congress! Burn it! ...
Don Manzullo: Worst Congressional Questioning Ever (VIDEO)
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It's generally not worth reporting on exchanges between backbench committee members and witnesses that occur toward the end of a congressional hearing, because the member often hasn't been at the hearing and merely re-asks questions that have already been posed.
But the exchange at Tuesday's House Financial Services Committee hearing between Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Ill.) is of a different sort. The most generous interpretation is that Manzullo is hoping to create footage for a future campaign commercial.
Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, captive extras in his campaign spot, are at a loss as to how to ...
Don Manzullo: Worst Congressional Questioning Ever (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
It's generally not worth reporting on exchanges between backbench committee members and witnesses that occur toward the end of a congressional hearing, because the member often hasn't been at the hearing and merely re-asks questions that have already been posed.
But the exchange at Tuesday's House Financial Services Committee hearing between Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Ill.) is of a different sort. The most generous interpretation is that Manzullo is hoping to create footage for a future campaign commercial.
Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, captive extras in his campaign spot, are at a loss as to how to ...
Bernanke to Rep.:"It's a poorly posed question"
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Bernanke to Rep.:"It's a poorly posed question" It's a time honored tradition in Congress that Generals, CEOs and Nobel Laureates sit through what they consider less-than-expert questions at Congressional hearings. Rarely do they call out the questioner. But when Rep. Don Manzullo (R-IL) grilled Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and New York Fed Chief William Dudley over AIG retirement plans yesterday, Bernanke showed a rare flash of anger. "The American people have left 40 to 50 percent of their retirement plans, IRAs, and 401ks. But people with retirement plans that bought insurance from AIG did not suffer that loss. Isn't that correct?" ...
