Roberts ribbed over ‘Phase II’

robertswiretap2.jpgSen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., drew the eye of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” Monday night for Roberts’ long-ago promises, when he chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee, to fast-track the “Phase II” reports examining the Bush administration’s use of prewar intelligence on Iraq. “I’ve got tennis shoes and track shoes on, on Phase II,” Roberts was shown saying in a clip from November 2005. Stewart saved his ire, though, for the media’s neglect of the Phase II report’s eventual release last week — in favor of stories about kissing lesbians, Web gossip and a French daredevil who climbs buildings. “Yes, he was climbing the New York Times building, perhaps looking to read the story about the administration misleading us into a war that you didn’t cover at all,” Stewart responded to one ABC News clip.

17 Comments

  1. kansasdem
    Posted June 10, 2008 at 2:09 pm | Permalink

    Does Pat Roberts really believe he was representing the best interests of Kansans and the people of this great nation when he was covering up for Bush and Cheney’s lies and malfeasance? When he was a witting participant in trying to blame our intelligence services for Bush’s and Cheney’s decisions? For this, he should resign in shame. He certainly makes Kansas and himself a laughing stock.

  2. kansasdem
    Posted June 10, 2008 at 2:10 pm | Permalink

    Does Pat Roberts really believe he was representing the best interests of Kansans and the people of this great nation when he was covering up for Bush and Cheney’s lies and malfeasance? When he was a witting participant in trying to blame our intelligence services for Bush’s and Cheney’s decisions? For this, he should resign in shame. He certainly makes Kansas and himself a laughing
    stock.

  3. lindainks55
    Posted June 10, 2008 at 2:39 pm | Permalink

    I’m very glad “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” kept this in the public eye. Robert’s failure deserves lots of attention! He is complicit in the deaths of many innocents and should be held accountable!

  4. Regular
    Posted June 10, 2008 at 3:08 pm | Permalink

    Yeah lindainks, I’m sure you would right up to Senator Roberts and say directly to his face he is complicit in the deaths of many innocents and should be held accountable.

    What a blogladyte you’ve become.

  5. outlander
    Posted June 10, 2008 at 3:25 pm | Permalink

    I don’t watch Jon Stewart, but did he also lampoon Jay Rockefeller, for delaying the release of this report (which is mostly old stuff and stupid opinions that everyone knew) for a year and a half after he came to chairmanship of the Intelligence Committee?

    If not, I wonder why not?

  6. CF2K
    Posted June 10, 2008 at 3:26 pm | Permalink

    Dear Senator Roberts,

    The New York Times still gets the last word regarding your serving as George Bush’s lapdog.

    “The Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees should do this, but we can’t expect a real effort from Senator Pat Roberts, the Intelligence Committee chairman, or Senator Arlen Specter, chairman of the Judiciary Committee. They’re too busy trying to give legal cover to the president’s trampling on the law and the Constitution.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/opinion/17fri1.html?ex=1300251600&en=f3221ba709199505&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

    And then, Senator Roberts, you resigned from the Intelligence Committe rather than serve on it once Republicans entered the minority. Can’t say I’m sorry: otherwise, we might NEVER have seen the full report.

    Hope you sleep well at night, Senator Roberts, knowing you did your partisan duty by obstructing a Congressional investigation into Presidential wrongdoing.

  7. lindainks55
    Posted June 10, 2008 at 3:59 pm | Permalink

    Regular, I would say it to his face. It’s my honest opinion. He is a public official, an elected representative I disagree with. Do you hold a differing opinion, or was criticizing mine all you wanted to post?

    I’m curious about why you feel a need to criticize a poster instead of their opinion. Does that make you superior or witty or something? Seems petty to me.

    I think everyone has an opinion as good and as useless as any other, and the same rights to post them. However, I avoid pissing contests as I think they add little to any discussion.

  8. LLTVET
    Posted June 10, 2008 at 4:25 pm | Permalink

    Rock on Linda!! What is Roberts going to do? Put on his track shoes?

  9. bth
    Posted June 10, 2008 at 5:04 pm | Permalink

    Linda, VET – I would happily join you. Maybe we can all share a cell after he has us arrested for ‘threatening him’

  10. kansasdem
    Posted June 10, 2008 at 6:54 pm | Permalink

    I doubt that neither Roberts nor Brownback is going to be a public situation in which someone is going to stick their follies in their faces — Roberts playing monkey for Bush and Cheney or Brownback for cultivating the bigot John Hagee for Old Man McCain — because they tend to stick to American Legion Halls, Rotary Clubs and County Commission meetings. They rarely mix with people who might disagree with them. Kinda like their Daddy, George W. Bush.

  11. WSClark
    Posted June 10, 2008 at 7:06 pm | Permalink

    Leave it to NB McCluer to insult someone like Linda Inks.

    I wonder if he was the son of a bitch that called her a slut last year.

    What a tough guy he is…………

  12. kansasdem
    Posted June 10, 2008 at 8:09 pm | Permalink

    Whoops. Pardon my solecisms. I should have said, “Neither Roberts nor Brownback is going to be in a public situation in which . . . ”

    The point being they stick to safe ground.

    Maybe a good editorial board will bring up the elephants in the room, in a kind and more courteous way.

  13. CapnAmerica
    Posted June 11, 2008 at 10:25 am | Permalink

    I think Roberts was putting on his track shoes to run from his responsibility to tell the truth.

    Old Rubber Stamp.

    Great leaders pull people up to their level.

    What Worst. President. Ever. does is to pull them down to his level.

    Colin Powell, Rumsfailed, Ari Fliescher, Tony Snow, Condy Rice, Rick Santorum, Jim Ryun . . . they might have been decent people at one time.

    Now they are forever stained with the taint of serving Worst. President. Ever.

  14. Jed
    Posted June 12, 2008 at 12:26 am | Permalink

    Outie,
    Of course we knew pretty much all of it years ago. We just want Bushroberts (it’s hard to define where one leaves off and the other begins) to admit that they knew it too. So far they’ve been pleading ignorance for so long that maybe we should believe they’re really ignorant, and replace them with the people who knew they were either ignorant or dishonest all along.

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