I Cogitate

Regardless of where you stand on the propriety of the Oil-For-Food investigation and his guilt or innocence, it had to be invigorating for everyone to see George Galloway rip Norm Coleman a new one during Galloway's testimony yesterday.

I write this in reaction to the usual mealymouth, pussyfooting doubletalk individuals have offered of late when appearing before Congress (see John Bolton, Alberto Gonzales). Regardless of their past grand actions or fire-breathing orations, the trend has been for these people to be button-downed 'mini-me's' of themselves once setting foot on Capitol Hill.

Not Galloway. He wasn't about to go meek and mild and anyone knowing his history should not have expected such.

Any bets that Norm Coleman is gingerly sitting on a rubber donut tonight?

Maybe my memory is failing me at the moment but the last 'best' moment I recall was Brendan Sullivan's (representing Oliver North) outburst during Iran Contra-Gate hearings:

'I'm not a potted plant. I'm here as the lawyer. That's my job.'

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