Frank Pallone Scathes Fred Upton’s Anti-Obamacare ‘Monkey Court’
Another day of Congress in session, another politicized “hearing” into ginned-up wrongdoing, this time in an effort to turn the Obamacare web site’s rocky launch into some kind of high crime and scare people away from applying for affordable health plans.
But something unexpected happened early on: Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) got medieval on chairman Fred Upton:
“I will not yield to this monkey court!” Pallone said during the hearing.
Memo to Dems on the hill: more like this, please. Watch and learn.
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David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.