Wednesday, February 03, 2016

Chaffinch cranks up a whitewash


To help out his fellow Republican, Michigan Governor Rick "Poison" Snyder, Congressman Jason "Chaffinch" Chaffetz has opened an investigation into the Flint MI water disaster. His first step is not to call the man ultimately responsible, Rick Snyder.
As Democrats pressure Congress to respond to the water crisis in Flint, Mich., Republicans hauled state and federal officials before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday morning for a rare bipartisan grilling over the breakdown in public health.

“I want to know what happened, and more important I want to know what they are doing to fix it,” said Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah and chairman of the committee. “This was a failure of epic proportions.”

The hearing was one of several Mr. Chaffetz has convened at Democrats’ request, but many of them are angry that the committee did not invite Michigan’s Republican governor, Rick Snyder, to testify. They also fear a dearth of new information because some of the other government officials who were high in the chain of command as the crisis escalated have since resigned and were not called to testify.

Democrats on the oversight committee, joined by Mr. Chaffetz, also sought the testimony of Darnell Earley, the former emergency manager in Flint, a Snyder appointee who approved the switch to water from the Flint River to save money. The committee issued Mr. Earley a subpoena late Tuesday, according to a member of its staff. But his lawyer, A. Scott Bolden, said in an email Tuesday night that Mr. Earley would be unable to appear before the committee.
Poor little Chaffinch will not doubt find it impossible to get any of the real perps to testify but will probably get some poor schmuck up there for all to bullyrag and badger for the cameras. The Republicans always put on a good show.

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