Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
Very effecient for less than three minutes to be so enlightening.
Point one:
Witnesses before congress are brought in by the parties and are therefore treated with skepticism by the opposing party. Witnesses often give lengthy answers to yes or no questions from the opposing party. Both sides do it in almost every hearing, because both sides are allowed to bring in witnesses. This leads to frustration and often insulting behavior by the questioner as this first questioning shows.
I don't know if there is a solution to that, but if there is one, it should apply to both parties.
Point two
Questioners often read from scripts, and so to the witnesses. No excuse for that at that level. When I was a young Lieutenant in the Army, I would give presentations to my company or battalion commander and if I had ever read a paragraph in response to a question, I would not have finished the second sentence before being dressed down for being unprepared. It slows down the hearing and makes it boring.
Amazing that this questioner chides the witness for reading his answers when she is so obviously reading the questions.
Point Three.
Democrats do not understand budget cuts, because they oppose them all. This congress lady asked Lee Zelden if he supports an investigation by the Chemical Safety Board, apparently an obscure agency. He says (after reading some paragraphs) that he does. She then asks if he supports the president's budget cuts. He does in their entirety.
She accuses him of contridicting himself because the president's budget cuts funding for the Chemical Safety Board. I'll not explain why she is wrong. I know the non-Democrats on here will understand it perfectly, and the Democrats and "not Democrats" will not understand if I explain it a dozen times.
Point one:
Witnesses before congress are brought in by the parties and are therefore treated with skepticism by the opposing party. Witnesses often give lengthy answers to yes or no questions from the opposing party. Both sides do it in almost every hearing, because both sides are allowed to bring in witnesses. This leads to frustration and often insulting behavior by the questioner as this first questioning shows.
I don't know if there is a solution to that, but if there is one, it should apply to both parties.
Point two
Questioners often read from scripts, and so to the witnesses. No excuse for that at that level. When I was a young Lieutenant in the Army, I would give presentations to my company or battalion commander and if I had ever read a paragraph in response to a question, I would not have finished the second sentence before being dressed down for being unprepared. It slows down the hearing and makes it boring.
Amazing that this questioner chides the witness for reading his answers when she is so obviously reading the questions.
Point Three.
Democrats do not understand budget cuts, because they oppose them all. This congress lady asked Lee Zelden if he supports an investigation by the Chemical Safety Board, apparently an obscure agency. He says (after reading some paragraphs) that he does. She then asks if he supports the president's budget cuts. He does in their entirety.
She accuses him of contridicting himself because the president's budget cuts funding for the Chemical Safety Board. I'll not explain why she is wrong. I know the non-Democrats on here will understand it perfectly, and the Democrats and "not Democrats" will not understand if I explain it a dozen times.
