Lurita ‘Cookies On The Table’ Doan Challenges Waxman To A Duel: ‘I Can’t Wait’
Lurita ‘Cookies On The Table’ Doan Challenges Waxman To A Duel: ‘I Can’t Wait’
Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee released a report concluding that the White House “used the political affairs office to orchestrate an aggressive strategy to use taxpayer-funded trips to help elect Republican candidates for public office.” One of the appointees aiding in this effort, according to the report, was then-General Services Administration (GSA) chief Lurita Doan.
Doan first gained notoriety for using a January 2007 government teleconference to “ask senior GSA officials to help ‘our candidates’ in the next elections.” In May 2007, the White House Office of Special Counsel (OSC) found that she had violated the Hatch Act. In June, both the OSC and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) called on Doan to resign. In April, the White House finally forced her to step down.
Doan is back now. Furious at the House committee’s new report, Doan fired off an angry letter to Waxman yesterday, accusing him of “vicious, partisan politics.” She challenged him to let her come back to Congress to testify and clear her name:
Once again, you have falsely asserted that, as the administrator of GSA, I improperly attempted to use government resources or my office to influence an election. This assertion, masquerading as an official committee report, is especially reprehensible because you, more than anyone else, know that it is utterly false. [...]
I now understand you and your ubiquitous hypocrisy. I know how your witch hunts and kangaroo courts work. So please, invite me to testify. I can’t wait.
It’s surprising that Doan remembers so much about Waxman’s previous allegations and that she’s so eager to return to Congress. After all, last time she testified before his committee in March 2007, she embarrassingly couldn’t remember anything except that “there were cookies on the table” at one of her meetings. Watch a montage:
If she testifies, it’s unclear whether she will reiterate her belief that government employees who criticize her are the equivalent of “terrorists.”
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Maybe now she remembers the tablecloth color.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:44 pm“Witch hunts and kangaroo courts,” eh?
I suspect we’re going to be hearing those terms a lot more when the trials of the Bushco Crime Syndicate begin next year.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:46 pmIs she related to Bible Barbie or does she just go to the same hair stylist?
October 16th, 2008 at 8:46 pmLurita, honey, you go messin’ with the wax man and you will have a cookie crumb left. Ya know?
October 16th, 2008 at 8:49 pmjb Says:
Is she related to Bible Barbie or does she just go to the same hair stylist?
October 16th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
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I’m thinking the latter. It may be the same team of stylists who made over the Alaskan Idiot.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:51 pmPhoto caption:
October 16th, 2008 at 8:52 pmBut, I’m a republican and we never do anything wrong.
Aw, C’mon…. what makes anyone think that she’ll show up before an investigative committee? No one else has…. Rove, Meiers, etc. etc. etc.
October 16th, 2008 at 9:02 pmQuick – grab the water glasses – they might be used to lift fingerprints, Lurita!
October 16th, 2008 at 9:07 pmYes, let’s have another committee meeting proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Lurita Doan is an idiot. Lurita isn’t even qualified to be a meter maid. Take her damn fingerprints and throw her in the slammer.
October 16th, 2008 at 9:09 pmhussein toasterhead Says:
I suspect we’re going to be hearing those terms a lot more when the trials of the Bushco Crime Syndicate begin next year.
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Oh, Lordie… just WAIT until 1/21/09… when the wailing, the shrieks of anguish, the balling up of the little fists, the stamping of the little feet, and the soiling of the trousers begins in earnest.
Power brown outs due to all the paper shredders running overtime, hard drives being mashed into pulp w/ sledge hammers…
And then the law suits… every single, last, stinking one of the GOOPers crooks FINALLY, rightfully tossed out on his/her keister is going to file an unjustful termination suit, claiming near fatal traumatization, and demand a kazillion dollars in damages. You watch…
October 16th, 2008 at 9:10 pmWTF? Now that she finds she can’t land a job as a Tupperware hostess she wants to change her testimony? Is she going to retract her “I don’t recalls” and plead the 5th?
October 16th, 2008 at 9:20 pmI have a vision she really really wants to come testify but her pesky lawyer is going to insist she doesnt do so under oath or with a transcript..
October 16th, 2008 at 9:22 pmMy bet is that she was put up to this by Republican operatives, to preemptively undercut the slow wheels of justice with her phony umbrage, before the noose slips around the GOP gang. But this B.S. only works on the 23%ers.
October 16th, 2008 at 9:25 pmSorry about the OT but, this is too funny not to share. The Reichwhiners are trying to assert that Sen. Obama has been appearing with his own personal flags. Problem is? It’s the Ohio state flag!
http://mediamatters.org/items/200810160022
October 16th, 2008 at 9:32 pmDoan: Once again, you have falsely asserted that, as the administrator of GSA, I improperly attempted to use government resources or my office to influence an election.
Are she and Palin related? She was found to have violated the Hatch Act in 2007 by the OSC, but Waxman’s report is a “false assertion?”
October 16th, 2008 at 10:50 pmWell she did so good testifying the first time, I’m sure a second time should be quite revealing !
Seriously though, even if she were a genius and as pure as the driven snow, the Senators control the process, not the person testifying. So she’s already behind before she starts.
But if the Senators could get her angry enough to say things she didn’t mean to say, it could be quite entertaining.
October 16th, 2008 at 11:32 pmYOU KNOW….SOMETIMES YOU JUST GRAB A BEER, PUT YOUR FEET ON THE OTTOMAN…..LEAN BACK IN A BIG CHAIR AND SAY TO YOURSELF….
“IT JUST DON’T GET BETTER THAN THIS”
October 16th, 2008 at 11:52 pmHenry,
Give her Exactly what she wants. We’ll stand by and watch the show.
October 17th, 2008 at 4:21 amDon’t ya just love it when the rethugs and their bullshit self-combust. Lurita Doan is the perfect example of rethug cronyism – a pampered, inept, self-rightous, ideologically-blinded turd who used her power as GSA Administrator to help elect other incompetent rethugs. Nuf sed.
October 17th, 2008 at 8:23 amWas she drunk when she fired off that letter, invoking witch hunts and kangaroo courts? She has very little respect for the Legislative Branch as an institution, does she?
Please, please, please take her up on her offer and read her “don’t recollect” comments back to her. Please give her another forum to play The Madwoman of Chaillot.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:56 amMaybe a few years in the slammer will remind her this is a democracy, not a banana republic.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:50 amShe’s kicking up sand because she wants back on the national scene. She liked it…her ego is so huge this stupid person wants to face off with the beast. Nobody’s gonna say this and get away with it. Her problems related to the fact that she was blantantly political and tried to sell her Republican water to her agency. There were, as I remember, questions about her expenditures also. Such stupidity…I would love a new attorney general’s office to drop the Hatch act on her empty, “you can’t touch me” noggin. She may be running for something God forbid, maybe this will help her be in charge of something again.
October 17th, 2008 at 6:11 pmIt’s true that most Americans would like to terrorize Lurita Doan.
October 17th, 2008 at 7:09 pm