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2007-04-11 Fifth Column

House panel plans hearings on Tillman, Lynch cases

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Posted by Steve 2007-04-11 07:41|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 From the play/movie Chicago:

BAILIFF(Spoken)
Mr. Flynn, his honor is here

BILLY(Spoken)
Thank you. Just a moment.
You ready?

ROXIE(Spoken)
Oh Billy, I'm scared.

BILLY(Spoken)
Roxie, you got nothing to worry about.
It's all a circus, kid. A three ring circus.
These trials- the wholeworld- all show business.
But kid, you're working with a star, the biggest!

(Singing)
Give 'em the old razzle dazzle
Razzle Dazzle 'em
Give 'em an act with lots of flash in it
And the reaction will be passionate
Give 'em the old hocus pocus
Bead and feather 'em
How can they see with sequins in their eyes?

What if your hinges all are rusting?
What if, in fact, you're just disgusting?

Razzle dazzle 'em
And they;ll never catch wise!

Give 'em the old Razzle Dazzle

BILLY AND COMPANY
Razzle dazzle 'em
Give 'em a show that's so splendiferous

BILLY
Row after row will crow vociferous

BILLY AND COMPANY
Give 'em the old flim flam flummox
Fool and fracture 'em

BILLY
How can they hear the truth above the roar?

BILLY AND COMPANY
Throw 'em a fake and a finagle
They'll never know you're just a bagel,

BILLY
Razzle dazzle 'em
And they'll beg you for more!

BILLY AND COMPANY
Give 'em the old double whammy
Daze and dizzy 'em
Back since the days of old Methuselah
Everyone loves the big bambooz-a-ler

Give 'em the old three ring circus
Stun and stagger 'em
When you're in trouble, go into your dance

Though you are stiffer than a girder
They'll let you get away with murder
Razzle dazzle 'em
And you've got a romance

COMPANY(The same time as BILLY's)
Give 'em the old
Razzle Dazzle

BILLY
Give 'em the old Razzle Dazzle
Razzle dazzle 'em
Show 'em the first rate sorceror you are
Long as you keep 'em way off balance
How can they spot you've got no talent
Razzle Dazzle 'em

BILLY AND COMPANY
Razzle Dazzle 'em
Razzle Dazzle 'em

And they'll make you a star!

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-04-11 08:53|| 2007-04-11 08:53|| Front Page Top

#2 So now, the Democrats are going to declare that all information flowing from a war zone must be accurate, immediately, or someone's lying and must be punished.

I have no problem with the military punishing the people who tried to cover up the facts in the Tillman case, but the Lynch case seems more of a search for a scandal. Even in the Tillman case, Congress did its job in establishing the regulations -- now they need to butt out.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-04-11 11:10|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-04-11 11:10|| Front Page Top

#3 It's a pity the taxpayers can't cut off the funding for Congress.

Posted by doc 2007-04-11 12:21|| 2007-04-11 12:21|| Front Page Top

#4 "Her videotaped rescue by special forces from a Nasiriyah hospital on April 1 branded Lynch a hero at a time the U.S. war effort seemed bogged down."

"Bogged down", my aching ass. We ripped the most powerful army in the Middle East to tattered shreds in barely three weeks.

THIS is what ought to be investigated: the concerted effort by the Democrats, in collusion with their paid propagandists in the media, to undermine the war effort 24/7/365 FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-04-11 13:01|| 2007-04-11 13:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Though empowered to do so, the committee has no plans to subpoena witnesses, said one official involved in the investigation.

Wouldn't wanna do that. Witnesses might get in the way of Waxman's grandstanding.

Posted by tu3031 2007-04-11 13:21|| 2007-04-11 13:21|| Front Page Top

#6 I remember when they was bogged down, longest 36 hours of my TeeVee life.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-11 16:24|| 2007-04-11 16:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Give 'em the old flim flam flummox

humm... seems to me that a certain RBee wrote the book..

Posted by RD">RD 2007-04-11 16:52|| 2007-04-11 16:52|| Front Page Top

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