Shays: Mark McGwire is ‘worse’ than Bush admin.
Shays: Mark McGwire is ‘worse’ than Bush admin.
In an interview with ESPN, Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT) recounts Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro’s 2005 testimony before the House Oversight Committee, saying it was the worst behavior he has seen in “20 years in public life in Congress”:
Let me just say that they were deceitful… They weren’t cooperative. And they were arrogant. And they were like, “How dare you question us,” kind of attitude. And I want you to know I don’t take offense at that. There are certain things as a member of Congress I don’t like. But personally, I was just stunned by it because I haven’t see worse behavior in anyone in my 20 years in public life in Congress.
As ThirdParty notes, Shays has instead used his position on the Oversight Committee to shower praise on Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, and GSA Administrator Lurita Doan.
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Well, he is wrong.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:01 pmHow dare mere athletes be deceitful while testifying before Congress!
That’s the job of the Bush administration.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:03 pmGeeze, did they spit tobaccy and rearrange their packages in the hearing room?
December 13th, 2007 at 4:04 pmArrogant pricks are most upset when other arrogant pricks are arrogant pricks when testifying before the arrogant prick.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:04 pmwell - he did play a game, i guess. i didn’t know games carried such heavy consequences.
a few pills, vs. trillions wasted and tons of dead people
sure, Shay- that’s a reasonable comparison….
Today’s GOP:
December 13th, 2007 at 4:04 pm100% Incoherent, 100% of the time
Hey who does it look like he is really talking about….
“Let me just say that they were deceitful… They weren’t cooperative. And they were arrogant. And they were like, “How dare you question us,†kind of attitude. And I want you to know I don’t take offense at that. There are certain things as a member of Congress I don’t like. But personally, I was just stunned by it because I haven’t see worse behavior in anyone in my 20 years in public life in Congress.”
….sure sounds like he talking about Bush and Cheney to me.
Bush/Cheney/Shays
Hague Trials ‘09
Buck Fush
December 13th, 2007 at 4:04 pmDid Shays take offense when Bush joked about not finding any WMDs in his office? At that point, how many people had already died to find out they were wrong?
December 13th, 2007 at 4:04 pmShays has no personal credibility when he’s supported criminals like Doan and Prince.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:06 pm#7 I’m sure Shays response was “they’re dying to find out if it’s true”. Shays is another bush sicko.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:06 pm#6 Yes, Shays statement has more relevance when one inserts Bush & Cheney into the comment, doesn’t it?
December 13th, 2007 at 4:07 pmBaseball has always been a game of cheats. It is part of the lore. Imagine how boring it would really be if they didn’t cheat. Stolen bases, manipulated bats and balls, stolen signals. It’s part of the nostalga of the whole deal
December 13th, 2007 at 4:08 pm11 - exactly
it’s just being “leveraged” into serving as this week’s smokescreen,
because the uss Righty is taking on water faster than it can be bailed.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:11 pmI wonder if Mark McGwire is a Republican?
December 13th, 2007 at 4:13 pmMy son has Mark McGwire’s rookie card. It was given to him when he was born.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:14 pmNever mind the fact that, as owner of the Texas Rangers, the Chimperor turned his back on steriod use, making him complicit.
Just like he turned his back on the Constitution when he became Preznit.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:14 pmEverybody look out for tomorrow’s news dump–I imagine the “liberal media” will be screaming about the baseball report non-stop for the next few days. Be prepared for the Bush Administration to use this as a screen to let loose some stinkers.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:15 pmChimpy probably wanted to try the roids, and see what all the fun was about.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:16 pmMark and Sammy saved the MLB with their legendary home run race.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:16 pmLet me just say that they were deceitful… They weren’t cooperative.
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Wow. Deceitful and uncooperative drug users. Who would have thought that?
It just seems like all the drug users I know are completely honest and cooperative whenever the Police or government asks them question about their drug use.
I mean it not like Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro destroyed a tape of them themselves shooting up or something.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:17 pm“Mark and Sammy saved the MLB with their legendary home run race.”
Yeah - look what good it did…
December 13th, 2007 at 4:18 pmChris may have to join Larry Craig on that one. He thinks these guys juicing is worse than treason. Baseball doesn’t have any balls left. They shrank with each shot ‘o’ juice. Sorry Abner, ain’t like it was back when.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:21 pmDid Shays miss the Gonzo hearings? Or how about any time good ol’ Rumsfeld stood in front of congress. Remember the public smackdown gen. shalikashvilli (?) got after stating the need for over 300,000 troops.
And this guy is upset over men dressed in tights. Where are you priorities man?
December 13th, 2007 at 4:23 pmThe professional baseball steroids users are merely liars and cheaters, they are not traitors, like the Bush gangster regime… The professional baseball steroids users have not stolen elections. The professional baseball steroids users have not lied us into wars of imperial aggression. The professional baseball steroids users have not murdered over one million Iraqis. The professional baseball steroids users have not outed undercover CIA agents… The professional baseball steroids users have not tried to destroy our Bill of Rights;.The professional baseball steroids users have not tried to destroy our Constitution. The professional baseball steroids users have not been illegallly and uncontitutionally spying on Americans. The professional baseball steroids users have not been deleting millions of damning Emails… You get the drift…
December 13th, 2007 at 4:25 pmAt least McGuire is not responsible for all the death and destruction created by a war based on lies to avenge a death threat on daddy Bush by his incompetent son, George (known to me as boy Bush). I would say, on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being the worst person…. Mc Guire 1.5 and boy Bush 5+
December 13th, 2007 at 4:28 pmHello, Pot? Kettle on line 2.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:31 pmWhat did it do? They really did save it. Interest was low thanks to the strike, and they revived it with the legendary race.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:34 pmdbadass… Breezy wants to know who you are.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:34 pmArrogance meets Arrogance - Oh, well!!!!!
December 13th, 2007 at 4:36 pmThose who took steroids did not break any laws.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:38 pmGeez…
How about just submitting Mark McGwire to a piss test, and submit the Divider to the same test and see who comes up clean. That will settle this.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:53 pm“Shays: Mark McGwire is ‘worse’ than Bush admin.” - ThinkProgress”
this is one time i’ll allow such a headline…
December 13th, 2007 at 4:55 pm:-)
OOOPS….METHINKS HE DOST PROTEST TOO MUCH
SHALL WE LOOK INTO SHAYS’ DRUG USAGE HISTORY?
December 13th, 2007 at 5:00 pmI can somewhat understand McGwire–after all, he took a substance to enhance his performance. Shays, on the other hand, mainlines Bush kool-aid–and it is clearly making him act like a frickin’ idiot.
December 13th, 2007 at 5:03 pmComment by Coffins Draped with a Flag — December 13, 2007 @ 4:34 pm
Soory I will get in touch with you at some point. Busy week. Tell him I am the son of a fellow he painted houses with and took a welding (I think) course with one time. At one point he was an student of this fellow at what was still KSC at that time. Tell him my moniker might help solve this
December 13th, 2007 at 5:11 pmArrogance is unattractive no matter whom it comes from. However, I can’t see that athletes being arrogant and uncooperative could be any worse than subpoenaed Bush sycophants being arrogant and uncooperative.
Seems to me it would be a draw.
December 13th, 2007 at 5:14 pmSeems to me it would be a draw.
Comment by missmolly — December 13, 2007 @ 5:14 pm
Except that one set of those arrogant morons would be endangering hte USA, and the other would be overpaid entertainers.
December 13th, 2007 at 5:28 pmIs Shays on some hallucinogen?
December 13th, 2007 at 5:58 pmDidn’t McGwire and Palmeiro commit perjury?
December 13th, 2007 at 7:37 pmOf course Shays is a disgusting human being. But, what really kills me about the Mitchell Report is finding out that many of the athletes who were the most vocal in their disdain for Barry Bonds were juicing themselves. Roger Clemens, I’m looking at you, you big red-faced, sweaty steroidal phony.
December 13th, 2007 at 7:38 pmWith his vote against banning waterboarding today, perhaps next time he will offer that up as a way to adjust those bad attitudes and get the TRUTH!
December 13th, 2007 at 7:43 pmDid anyone say “I don’t recall”? That would clear everyone of perjury charges.
December 13th, 2007 at 8:58 pmBogusness wrapped inside of balderdash! McGwire merely invoked his constitutional right NOT to testify. I’m actually insulted that Think Progress has not pointed this out. The elephants will be idiots. We get that. But don’t repeat their spurious claims with pointing out all the layers of deception.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:41 pm.
I’m sorry, but no where does the Constitution address drug abuse.
Treaties… warrantless… redress and petition… IT does.
Me thinks many a member of CONgress don’t know their CONstitution that well.
Many a member prefer to be one of the “NOT SEE” party.
NOT SEE the evil,
NOT SAY a peep about it, and
NOT DO a thing about it.
The “NOT SEE” Party.
.
December 14th, 2007 at 1:16 amWe’re paying people like Shays 150K for asinine comments like this?
December 14th, 2007 at 9:19 amShays was also the “Republican Obstructionist of the Day” for Howard “Cookie” Krongard during the hearing where we found out that the Inspector General of the State Dept. had a brother sitting on Blackwater’s Board of Directors. Krongard shameless lied over and over again to Congress, and Shays never failed to back him up.
December 14th, 2007 at 12:15 pm