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Elizabeth Warren, “They’re afraid of you.”

May 24, 2011 By gjbcmb

During a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee today, Chairman Patrick McHenry (R, NC-10) ended the hearing by calling Elizabeth Warren a liar.

Warren had stated that the Chairman’s staff and her, after a late-night, last-minute schedule change, had agreed to let her leave by 2:15 to meet other obligations. You can see the look of shock on her face when he outright calls her a liar.

Later Representative John Yarmuth (D, KY-3) tells Warren “They’re afraid of you.” Here’s the link to the NY Times coverage of the spat. WSJ has coverage, too.

UPDATE (by David): Here is the video. First, the truly appalling exchange with McHenry, who appears to be a Class A putz, and Warren. Kudos to Rep. Cummings for jumping in.

And here is Rep. Yarmuth’s excellent commentary on why the whole thing happened.

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  1. SomervilleTom says

    May 24, 2011 at 9:05 pm

    I don’t know who nauseates me more, elected representatives who act this way or voters who put them and keep them in office.

  2. stomv says

    May 25, 2011 at 7:25 am

    • stomv says

      May 25, 2011 at 7:26 am

      at least when it comes to embedding youtube videos.

      Maybe the editors can convert this link
      http://youtu.be/jcdai100SOM
      to an embedded video.

      • Jasiu says

        May 25, 2011 at 8:58 am

        You have to go all the way to the end of the video until you see the selection of related videos and a “share” option. You choose that and eventually get to “embed”. That’s what I did anyway. Here goes:

        Looks OK in the preview. Let’s see what happens when I submit…

        • Jasiu says

          May 25, 2011 at 8:59 am

          Editors, I believe we have a problem embedding YouTube in comments.

          • David says

            May 25, 2011 at 9:50 am

            Let’s see if that embed worked….

            • David says

              May 25, 2011 at 9:55 am

              So to embed a video in comments, you need to use the “old” YouTube embed code – the one that starts with the “object” HTML tag. iframe apparently doesn’t work. There’s a checkbox on the YouTube page that will bring up the old code. Try it and see if you can make it work.

              • Jasiu says

                May 25, 2011 at 10:05 am

                Here goes:

                Both techniques worked in preview. I believe there was something else I noticed before (maybe bullet lists?) that showed up OK in the preview but not in the actual comment.

  3. gjbcmb says

    May 25, 2011 at 11:30 am

    LOL professorpolitics.com

    Chickenlover
    Tags: SOUTH
    PARK
    more…

  4. damnthetorpedos says

    May 25, 2011 at 2:50 pm

    McHenry has to apologize and someone else should be appointed Chair of the committee. And as far as ‘them’ being afraid of Warren, no wonder – the hammer of accountibility looms.

    • David says

      May 25, 2011 at 3:04 pm

      Sadly, he will probably be cheered by leadership for his behavior rather than chastised. He’s a thug.

  5. JimC says

    May 25, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    I appreciate Yarmuth’s sentiments, but I’m guessing it’s not kosher for a Democratic rep to “apologize on behalf of” a Republican chairman. Reverse the situation, and we’d be put out by his speech.

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