Stephen Colbert’s testimony before Congress this morning was less wasteful, farcical, and costly than Democrats’ claims they have secured the border. Colbert’s six-minute shtick consumed far less time, money, and patience than the expensive charade the Obama administration is carrying out along our southern border and in immigration courtrooms all points north. Although Colbert is a buffoon, he is easier to believe than Secretary Janet Napolitano when she claims “the border is as secure as it has ever been.”
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly estimated today’s political sideshow cost taxpayers a mere $125,000. The Comedy Central star’s bewildering testimony occurred as a result of an invitation from Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, a left-wing California Democrat (but then I repeat myself).
For once, Rep. John Conyers tried to avert embarrassment by asking Colbert “to leave the committee room completely and submit your [written] statement instead.” Lofgren demanded he speak because he would add “pizazz” and had generated so much “coverage.” Lofgren last received national coverage in 2004, when authorities arrested her staffer Susan Lindauer, accusing her of accepting $10,000 to act as an agent of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Intelligence Service. Lindauer was later ruled mentally unfit to stand trial because of a psychiatric disorder — which at once explains her support for Lofgren and Lofgren’s attraction to her.
Instead, the comedic psycho went forward as an “expert witness,” on the grounds that for his television show he had spent one day working with illegal aliens in a United Farm Workers publicity stunt. “I believe one day of me studying anything makes me an expert,” he said. During the testimony, he asked to have footage of his recent colonoscopy submitted into the Congressional Record. He then whipped off a few more jokes — although no one much laughed — and asked Congress to grant border-jumpers an “improved legal status.”
Most Americans felt Colbert’s unfunny stint wasted their time and money — but not Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. She called his appearance entirely “appropriate. He’s an American, right?” Pelosi asked. “He comes before the committee, he has a point of view, he can bring attention to an important issue like immigration. I think it’s great.”
Conyers would later call Colbert’s testimony “profound.”
Colbert’s testimony was not profound, nor was it even the biggest travesty Congressional Democrats had perpetrated against our borders this week. Earlier this week, the Senate narrowly voted down Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s attempt to hold military funding hostage and sneak through the DREAM Act. Meanwhile, the Obama administration claims it has already secured the border, as it explores imposing amnesty by fiat, dismisses lawsuits against illegal immigrants, sues Sheriff Joe Arpaio for not cooperating with a federal witch-hunt, and even hauls the state of Arizona before human rights abusers at the UN because of its decision to implement immigration law. Congress should not have heard from Governor Jan Brewer and border sheriffs Arpaio, Larry Dever, and Paul Babeu about the human rights violations American citizens face because of Obama’s de facto amnesty program including paramilitary clashes, drug trafficking, murders, increased gang activity, rampant kidnappings, sexual assaults, crime, soaring welfare costs, home invasions, overcrowded schools, hospital closures caused by skyrocketing medical costs, job losses, bulging prison detentions, bilingual status, property damage, environmental degradation, and overburdened infrastructure.
The Democratic Party owes the American people an apology for this morning’s testimony and the more consequential waste its policies have inflicted on the American people. As with Colbert’s testimony today, no one is laughing.
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It's perpetual…if we make the migrant work a citizen, an American citizen, then he/she will be doing a job that Americans won't do, so will have to quit doing that job…so we then have to hire another migrant worker to replace the one we just made a U.S. Citizen. It just doesn't make any sense to make the migrant worker a citizen..no need to go around and around. Cobert did not make the distinction between legal and illegal migrant workers. Most American have no problem with law abiding legal migrant worker….it the law busting illegal migrant workers. We are a Nation of Laws…obey them or be sent home.
I'm Susan Lindauer. Get your facts straight. I was arrested on the Patriot Act in March 2004 after I contacted the senior staffs of Senator John McCain and Senator Trent Lott, requesting to testify before the brand new Presidential Commission on Iraqi Pre-War Intelligence. Forthwith, I demanded a trial, so that I could repudiate the nonsense allegation that I received $10,000 from Iraqi Intelligence. In fact, I was a U.S. Asset working in counter-terrorism from 1993 to 2002, covering the Iraqi Embassy and the Libya House. It turns out the Justice Department arrested all three Assets covering the Iraqi Embassy at the United Nations. Over my most bitter objections, I was declared "incompetent to stand trial," by a corrupt psychiatry business that declared that my insistence on proving my innocence qualified as a "mental defect." Seriously, that's something Iran or China or Mynamar would do.
I was forced to surrender to prison on a Texas military base without so much as a competence hearing to check my story. After my release, I got a new attorney and went back into Court.
What do you know– it turns out that I'm one of the folks who warned about 9/11throughout the spring and summer of 2001. Yeah, that's right. The whole thing was a cover up.
At Presidential election time, my prosecutor worked for John McCain and Sarah Palin.
slindauer2008…How about sending us a set of finger prints,or a severed thumb will do,so we can verify identity.Nice try…..laughing my a– off……ickiebob,ickiebob,ickiebob-bob.
Republicans are such a cowardly bunch. You arrest your political opposition, who could expose your lies to the public, then you throw us in prison without a trial. Sounds like tyranny to me. In the next elections, for years to come, America will never allow Republicans to brag about their leadership on anti-terrorism or national security. And Americans will be disgusted when you talk of freedom.
Want to taste of tyranny? Just wait a little longer untill Hussein Obammie creates a "situation" to declare martial law.Or,as his staff would say,"never let a crises go to waste." When that happens most of YOUR opposition will be imprisoned or shot. Problem solved. Do you recall how many CIA agents mysteriously disappeared under Clinton's "watch"? Examing Monicas head was not Bubba's ONLY flaw.There's a bigger reason this guy is known as Slick Willie.It seems like the disappearance or imprisonment of "U.S.Assets" is part of the job….on both sides of the aisle.
What a twisted mind you have, Ickiebob. Republican leaders did that to me. Not the Democrats. While they bragged about their leadership support for Assets, the truth was they locked us up in prison without a trial. That's corrupt leadership. I was so "incompetent" that I warned about 9/11. Those idiots in the Republican Party were so incompetent that they allowed the attack to happen. Now that's a failure Americans need to hear about.
Nobody reputable EVER redacts an intelligence report to make a politician look good. That contradicts the whole purpose. It certainly shows the Republicans don't understand the process.
Whatever,Martha! You're the asset!
Yeah, and I'm the one who worked in Anti-terrorism for 9 years— Not those bozo clowns on Capitol Hill.
Obama is mocking the entire Country, Pelosi mocks the Constitution ("Are you serious?"), Reid mocks the troops, Frank and Dodd mock the financial system and the law……on and on it continues. Send out the clowns in 2010 and 2012, those in the GOP as well.
I'm thinking that the nut-case,Susan Lindauer,is secretely running things for Lofgren behind the scenes. Lofgren,Lindauer,Conyers,Colbert,and most of the Demo-Asses are all a bunch of pea-brains from the same pod.Everyone should write and email this ding-A-ling and express your opinion.
Thank you for posting my comment. The truth is far more interesting than speculations. Susan Lindauer