After reading this article, I just had to re-post this here, seems the congressman they've gotten to attend are some of the biggest whackos ever to grace the face of US politics, who would've thought that the politicians associating with the likes of Basset and Greer would be bat**** insane?
Historic Meeting of Lunatics
“Merrill has taken up permanent residence in whacko land,” Cook’s chief of staff Janet Jenson wrote in an intra-office e-mail in 2000.
The hearing panel will be headlined by former congressman
Merrill Cook (R – Utah) who was once banned from his own party’s offices after a profanity-laced tirade and was famously plagued during his few years in Congress by reports of erratic behavior leveled by
his own staff. “Merrill has taken up permanent residence in whacko land,”
Cook’s chief of staff Janet Jenson wrote in an intra-office e-mail in 2000. ”If he asks you to fax his underwear to the speaker’s office, please just do it.”
Former congressman Roscoe Bartlett believes Sun Myoung Moon is the Messiah and that there is a government conspiracy to cover-up UFOs.
Joining Cook will be former congressman
Roscoe Bartlett (R – Maryland). The 86 year-old raised eyebrows in 2004 when he attended a Unification Church event to receive the “Ambassador of Peace medal” from cult leader Sun Myung Moon who, afterwards, declared himself the Messiah and his wife the Assistant Messiah as Bartlett watched in delight (enjoy
this video of Bartlett groveling in front of Moon).
The crazy train doesn’t stop there. Also appearing is former congresswoman
Cheeks Kilpatrick (D- Michigan) who embarrassingly failed to receive her own party’s re-nomination in 2010 owing, in part, to her connections with her son, the disgraced former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (
who is facing up to 30 years in prison after being convicted of 24 federal crimes involving stripper parties at the mayoral mansion, funneling city funds to his wife, tax evasion, mail fraud, assaulting police officers, and more). Since losing her job in Congress, Cheeks is, reportedly, in a financial mess. In a failed attempt to spring her son from jail, she even tried to put her house up as bail collateral.
Since losing his Senate seat in 1980, Mike Gravel has made several comical – but fruitless – attempts to return to public life.
Rounding out this happy band of lunatics is former senator
Mike Gravel (D- Alaska). Since
his most recent bankruptcy, Gravel has pathetically taken to making public appearances for anyone who will buy him lunch – his previous engagements have included a conference sponsored
by the holocaust denial website Barnes Review. (UFO conspiracies aren’t Gravel’s only angle. He’s also been working the 9/11 Truth circuit and
several truther websites have accused him of absconding with donor funds.)
Not surprisingly, perhaps,
these probably cash-strapped has-beens are each getting $20,000 to perform at the Paradigm Research “Citizen Hearing.” (Talk about overpaid – Gravel would have done it for a $50 gift certificate to the Flying J truck stop where the ’83 Datsun he’s living out of is parked.)
