Hours of Testimony...

... summed up in this handy flowchart. The sad thing is, it really does sum up the proceedings (at least from what I've heard and read.)

Comments

[Michael]

Respectfully, I think that flowchart could have been made only by someone who formed their impression of the 9-11 commission solely by watching John Stewart.

Even from my conservative perspective, the Democrats on the commission have been (so far) pretty fair and serious in their questions and comments. (I won't share my opinion of the Republicans because I assume it would be dismissed.)

Cynicism can be as blinding a bias as ordinary partisanship.

[One]

You take me *far* too seriously.

I got a chuckle out of the diagram, nothing more. I am a cynical person and hence my "sums it up" comment (I guess I should have put in one of those animated smilies rolling it's eyes to complete the thought) but of course the testimony is more detailed, serious, involved than that diagram. For me cynicism is a humorous release, not a way of thinking.

(I won't share my opinion of the Republicans because I assume it would be dismissed.)

You really think that of me? If I did disagree with you it doesn't mean I'm dismissing your point. And BTW, you could say all you liked about it and chances are I wouldn't have any response, because I haven't been following the hearings closely and I don't have the background to even muster any sort of respectable dialogue on the matter.

[piggy]

Listening to the Clark testimony on the radio, I really had no inkling of who was a conservative or liberal in the questioning (mainly because I was not familiar with most of the people on the panel aside from the Chairman and former Senator Kerry). Seemed that for the most part, they were just asking straight questions of the participants.

Michael, what was your opinion of the Republicans? Now you have us both interested! :O)