I'll bet you're one of those "true American patriots" who the most you know about that war is Normandy. You wanna talk about people being pussies and wimps? Let me quote a line from a letter from a UNITED STATES MARINE that served on Peleliu in WW2:
"When this is all over, more than anything else I shall cherish and respect all that which is SWEET, TENDER, and GENTLE."
It is Stonewall JACKSON! DIMWEED!! As a descendant of Stonewall JACKSON, I take offense at your stupidity in misusing an important historical figure for POLITICAL PROPAGANDA.
schrub administration= 1984. WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. and the E.P.A. should get its marching orders from shell, mobil, exxon and b.p. an agency that should protect our environment, should lose millions of dollars from big oil lobbyists. ridiculous!
This is so fucking simple, it's stupid. If he will not answer your question, HOLD HIM IN FUCKING CONTEMPT. Let him sit in a jail cell overnight. He'll figure out how to answer questions.
I will say that Rep. Waxman is definitely doing better than the rest, in that he at least didn't back off when Johnson wouldn't answer the question.
If you like socilaism so much move to china fuckhead. Just to let you know global warming is a natural occuring process. Polas bears are not going extinct!! I am sure you don't even pay taxes
China doesn't have socialism fucker. You are confusing communism with socialism. Socialism is at the core of government and the absolute opposite would be anarchism. The US is heavily socialist on a lot of points. The military being one of the most prominent ones. A moderate dose of Socialism isn't that bad in a democracy and I don't even particularly like excessive socialistic views.
You dumbass communism and socialism are the same. They have one common idea new thought and a capitalist mentality are not appreciated. Just like your democratic ass. You are either in college now or you are a college professor.
Look up how the word communism came to be. They are not the same.
I'm democratic but I'm not a Democrat, fool. More than half your arguments seems to entail name calling. "I'm dumb, a Democrat, in college or a college professor" oh and by the way Communism=Socialism. Go bother someone else with your ignorant views. I'm what socialists would call a conservative libertarian capitalist pig but I still don't see eye to eye with your shortsighted views. Oh and I don't like Ron Paul that much either!
jkleaka: thank goodness the US is finally realizing that people like yourself don't stand for American values, but pure greed and tough-guy egotism enforced with Fascism and extremely unhinged propaganda. It is painfully obvious to the rest of the world(and now most Americans)that the willful ignorance you display is the main reason why the US is falling apart. How can you not realize that arguing with abuse, no facts and open contempt for any idea that's different to yours NO LONGER WORKS
yeah!! lets all be pussies like you democrats and not care about anyone but us. Our fore fathers who fought at Normandy would be disguisted with wimps like you!@!! It is funny how all the democrats are asking this guy questions. There is no such thing as global warming it is a natural phenomenom
It's a shame that from the sacrifice of those individuals that people like you are ever born. You're macho-bullshit breed of so-called "Americans" are dying out fast. How does it feel to stand for nothing and be on the brink of being steamrolled by a better and brighter class of human beings? Must make you pretty mad? What are you doing about it; nothing, What can you do about it; nothing. You insult democrats and claim to be for soldiers. Answer me this; how many democrats died in that war?
well maybe socialism won't be bad, at least everyone will have the chance to go to college, have health care, and live in a society that better serves its citizens. at least our taxes would be put to good use.
besides, at least we like trees and want them around for a long long time. you an go live in a desert.
Why do you keep incompetent fucks like these hired? Does the overseeing committee has teeth or not? Enough of bunch of bullshit ... the guy is incompetent and most importantly a disrespectful fuck ... fire his ass and make sure his career ends here.
he doesnt work for the legislative branch, he works for the executive branch. and if bush wants him to stay put, he will until he's convicted of something. my question is when does comtempt of congress kick in?
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To fair to Johnson, some of those questions are stupid. In administrative terms, "bold action" is utterly meaningless. In administrative terms, a "crisis" would mean the sea is inundated a city or the some immediate problem had arisen. That doesn't mean climate change isn't happening or that action should not be taken.
What isn't clear is the issue this video is about. Some background would be helpful.
when you listen to the rhetoric, particularly the diction, the name for the global "crisis" isn't "climate change". this term climate change was used bush to lessen the effect of the more accurate term global warming. this man is obviously being told what to. but he doesn't want to say so -- so he talks in circles. the questions are meant to pin him down to something specific and to get a sense of if he understands the seriousness of global warming and from the interview he doesn't understand.
It brings to memory the time when Oliver North was evading answering in any way that could put his President in danger of perjury. He kept repeating that he could not recall any discussion about selling arms to Iran. Oh, and Canada may have social programs in place, but doesn't it improve the standard of living?
Actually, the standard of living is higher in Canada than in the US. It's also higher in Japan, France, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, etc. etc. ad infinitum, basically everywhere that has a decent national health system.
Hey, I'm from Vermont and I apologize to all youtubers for how Senator Sanders was acting. Global warming is an issue that needs to be resolved and it cant be resolved by people being dicks to each other. Bernie Sanders is a Socialist Dick that needs to move to Canada.(No offense to any people from other Socialist Countries, that works for other Countires But as far as I'm concerned, America is a fucking Democracy and not sociaist) Im sorry for the way that Sen. Sanders was being a Dick.
Well I would say your 1/2right, cause the bush administration has had a rubber stamp for 4yrs which was comprised of a majority of republicans. How ever I think BOTH sides of the aisle are full of it and the more people don't write to these representatives, rally, march and protest the more they will continue to just do what they want. Especially with the dems that have taken the majority and sat on their hands, bush should have been impeached A LONG time ago.
The real problem here is not the Bush Admin - its the Democrats who sit and complain that guys like Johnson are such bad guys but dont do anything about it. Bush should have been impeached two years ago. Thats the Dems fault, for pretending to be brave. They enabled the Bush Admin to pull most of this shit. Johnson can lie because there are no consequences for lying.
Bush & Cheney believed from day-on that they could run this country as a DICTATORSHIP --THEY BELIEVE THE CONGRESS AND AMERICAN PUBLIC HAVE NO RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
This is not the America Thomas Jefferson dreamed of.
You know "bold action" requires a lot of money. and to raise it you need to either raise taxes, or borrow money from China, or some other country, or porint money out of thin air. Of course China is currently enjoying economic growth, and they are not going to slow down. So what does bold action entail? Invade China?
What if the global warming can not be reversed? It is clear there is global warming, but how sure are the scientists on what causes global warming? Hubble telescopes pictures recently revealed that the ice caps (or ice like caps) situated at the poles of Mars are also reducing. Shall we blame the current administration for that too? Everybody knows that these monkeys in congress are using this to bash Bush. They don't care about global warming. And yes I have seen Al Gores videos on this.
Enabling corporations has been the calling of THIS administration and I would trust a scientist a bit more than I would some monkey who's loyalty lies with his party and interest group. GREED is what drives this government and its painfully obvious by this mans testimony, a clear disregard for who he is supposed to answer to. Everyone is lining their pockets right now to guard themselves from the economic fall out.
That was almost comical! At least these guys are changing it up from the very over used "I don't recall..." or pulling a Roberto as the saying goes. You got to love Waxman, laying the hammer down.
i hate dumb white people like that...not all of em....just the dumb pasty white ones that dont really giv a shit bout nething but themselves and their money
the reason this is not a ood iece of reporting is that Johnson's answers are edited so frequently that We don't get a real sense of his dishonesty. This is hardly necessary, because Senator Sanders cuts him off so much already. A beter report would let us hear his answers in totality, so we could actually judge his character.
There has been no warming trend in the last decade. It has flat-lined. Google London Tribune Global Warming. Godless people using fear-mongering and intimidation to force people into unfair treaties when the rest of the world hasn't taken the initiative to implement Kyoto. Heck, India and China are exempt from the getgo. FAIL!Shame, Veracifier with your Green cult. See John Stossel on Global Warming 'deniers'
Are you tying to refer to a book complied of Hebrew text that have nothing to do with people who live on the continent on which this governmental discussion is taking place? Please do not try and play role playing games with the world. This man is a liar and people are angry at him. Do not talk about magic and mythological creatures while the adults are talking. Thank you, now go play in the other room and talk about the tooth fairy being late and that silly Santa being drunk...
When do we the people say enough? We need to hang a sign around this guys neck so he can never work again and his kids will have to contend with his choices.
Put the dumbest of the dumb in charge and let them dismantle their respective departments and you have defined the cronyism which is this ignorant overbearing administration.
Just look at how disrespectful and dishonest is this guy to the congress and he is just a head of a fringe organization. After all this you call this the greatest democracy in the world. What a bunch of loosers.
Routine conversations with the executive branch? On a myriad of issues? But they were just routine, right? Routine conversations. Not emergency conversations, no. Routine conversations. And that's what he's doing here. His Stonewall routine.
If I were the democrats in Congress I wouldn't pass any more laws for the administration from this point on. The only recourse the voters have is if the democrats continue to play the administrations game is to vote them all out in the next election.
I can't help but wonder how much of this circus congress has created through years of inaction. Wasn't the last session called the do-nothing congress, or something? They have laid too still for far too long, to the point where the executive branch knows they can thumb their noses at these committee hearings, and no one does anything about it. This needs to change, and those bastards in the White House need to be held accountable for their arrogant disregard of the country they govern. (grrrrr)
I thing if you gave that guy a kick in the nuts, he might give you and honest grimace and groan. Otherwise forget it. Take him over to the waterboarding salon.
He's been rewarded for being a lapdog for the powerful, probably his whole life.
I can just see him being the biggest brown-nosing tattle-tale in the class while also being the biggest cheater, maybe the class bully's sidekick. The consummate asshole.
i agree. now the republicans are moving away from bush, but only because he is unpopular. when he was taking the country to hell -- including the economy, foreign relations, and war -- in the beginning, where were these people trying to stop him. they're all the same. i do believe that mccain will be the same.
i would agree with you, but followed is such a first concrete term. i think democrats unwillingly went along because of the popularity of president bush and of the war. i am not saying that what they did was right. but its more complex than just saying they followed. i am sure we can agree on that. it was a charged political climate that the democrats couldn't win, because in america pro-war was winning over anti-war.
What a mess, this is the kind of stuff that brings governments down. When people can't come together as officials and work to fix a country's problem, nothing gets done. Bush should be ashamed (like he can feel that) of appointing this man, he's a hack and clearly incompetent.
Surely you don't think the "gentleman" is "incompetent". This is EXACTLY what Bush has ordered.
Just like Carl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld, Condelezza Rice, Harriet Miers, Josh Bolton, Dick Cheney, I. Lewis Libby, Jack Abramoff, etc., et al.
Almost every member of the Bush administration is currently involved in, covering up, or charged with decietful, scandalous, criminal behavior.
...also, Bush should not be ashamed, he should be in prison, or worse.
I think the Bush administration envisioned the EPA post to be a ceremomial one. They had no idea that the role of the EPA would entail protecting the environment, or that the head of the EPA in the administration would be employed to actually care or even be concerned about improving our environment. Another Bush adm. official who would rather see CORPORATE PROFITS stay afloat than PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT.
Fuck this Johnson guy. What a waste of a human being who does nothing productive but cash a check that he doesn't deserve. Please fire, arrest, sue... him!
I read once in a book about the Occult of the Third Reich (Thule Society) and other secret societies that conspire against the general public that when politicians like to say they believe in "God" it doesn't really have to mean the Christian God that we are familiar with. There exists a Satanic cult and I've also read that members included such people as Benjamin Franklin! This Illuminati cult and Saturnalia. They worship this planet Saturn. Since I moved to Germany I learned about cults.
This guy should be put on the TITANIC seconds before it is sinking: I bet he would still deny that it is sinking, if the administration told him to do so!
By the way, folks, check FOREIGN reports on the effects of the hormones you are given (without even knowing it) with your regular milk! The bovine growth hormone, for example!
There are much more painful and interesting methods of execution. Stoning, dipping him in a vat of hot cooking oil, Chinese water torture, fed to lions, burning at the stake. Get creative.
lol. but proving his incompetence is funny, but hard to watch. republicans talks about family protecting values, but more than terrorism, global warming is much bigger and the bush admin, no the republicans, don't agree. so down the line when we feel the effects, they will blame it on the dems, because the dems weren't hardcore in pushing the issue. besides we need cleaner violence...like putting him on mars to show him what earth might become. he would be out of sight and def out of my mind.
Would someone please post the consequences that people like Stonewall here would face if the Committee members are sufficiently dissatisfied with the answers given to their questions?
If their only stick is a contempt charge, it would seem that any administrator could lie to Congress if the only way to prove their guilt is to compel them to tell the truth.
I wish there was a way moments like this (and the other ten thousand just like it over the last eight years) could be distilled into something that could be campaigned on... and put in front of people who otherwise only understand $400 haircuts and bowling scores, to drive home just how important the party you're voting for really is. Because this IS it. As a country, you are putting this guy as the head of our environement when you put a check by 'R'.
thats how republicans weasle there way out of the truth and problem solving for the America people, they keep ducking questions.
if that dont work the go to foxnews and question your patriotism then my fellow white dumb people come out of the woodworks without a clue to support them,it alway works on them,but the joke is always on them they are struggling just like me and they win,we suffer and our families and friends are sent to war
these types of guys should be put on trial for crimes against the people and held for contempt of court, if any average Joe went into a hearing with these kind of answers they would be thrown in jail for contempt
Only when they begin putting Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Gonzalez, Rove, and the rest on trial for the highest possible charges of treason and crimes against humanity.
powell left because he saw something wrong. i don't see why these other people stayed and defended bush at the expense of the american people and american interest abroad. the burmese gov't is scared to take help from america because of what might happen if they let us in. its such a sign of peace when you send war ships to deliver aide. lol. i agree with you, but when rosy on "the view" said the same thing, people said she was unpatriotic.
I'll bet you're one of those "true American patriots" who the most you know about that war is Normandy. You wanna talk about people being pussies and wimps? Let me quote a line from a letter from a UNITED STATES MARINE that served on Peleliu in WW2:
"When this is all over, more than anything else I shall cherish and respect all that which is SWEET, TENDER, and GENTLE."
2nd Lieutenant Richard Kennard, 1st Marine Division; Sept. 25, 1944; Peleliu island.
Bet you've never even heard of Peleliu
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MrHerbgreen 2 years ago
It is Stonewall JACKSON! DIMWEED!! As a descendant of Stonewall JACKSON, I take offense at your stupidity in misusing an important historical figure for POLITICAL PROPAGANDA.
richfincm 2 years ago
lol i thought that was great
hondaxr2005 2 years ago
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queenofthestonedage4 3 years ago
damn, that's about the most harsh insult I have ever hear...
nrunde 2 years ago
schrub administration= 1984. WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. and the E.P.A. should get its marching orders from shell, mobil, exxon and b.p. an agency that should protect our environment, should lose millions of dollars from big oil lobbyists. ridiculous!
oaklynlen 3 years ago
Stephen Johnson is a politically appointed hack like many in the Bush administration.
malanb5 3 years ago 5
greatest government int he world....lmao !!! who the fuck do these do nothing morons think they are??
dkouts07 3 years ago
This is so fucking simple, it's stupid. If he will not answer your question, HOLD HIM IN FUCKING CONTEMPT. Let him sit in a jail cell overnight. He'll figure out how to answer questions.
I will say that Rep. Waxman is definitely doing better than the rest, in that he at least didn't back off when Johnson wouldn't answer the question.
devikkyrn 3 years ago
What a hero! Dumb ass politicians just want to hear what they like to hear. If you don't like the answer why even bother hearing and question him?
tubebunny7 3 years ago
it beggars belief.
stratocaster539 3 years ago
If you like socilaism so much move to china fuckhead. Just to let you know global warming is a natural occuring process. Polas bears are not going extinct!! I am sure you don't even pay taxes
jkleaka 3 years ago
China doesn't have socialism fucker. You are confusing communism with socialism. Socialism is at the core of government and the absolute opposite would be anarchism. The US is heavily socialist on a lot of points. The military being one of the most prominent ones. A moderate dose of Socialism isn't that bad in a democracy and I don't even particularly like excessive socialistic views.
tubebunny7 3 years ago
You dumbass communism and socialism are the same. They have one common idea new thought and a capitalist mentality are not appreciated. Just like your democratic ass. You are either in college now or you are a college professor.
jkleaka 3 years ago
Look up how the word communism came to be. They are not the same.
I'm democratic but I'm not a Democrat, fool. More than half your arguments seems to entail name calling. "I'm dumb, a Democrat, in college or a college professor" oh and by the way Communism=Socialism. Go bother someone else with your ignorant views. I'm what socialists would call a conservative libertarian capitalist pig but I still don't see eye to eye with your shortsighted views. Oh and I don't like Ron Paul that much either!
tubebunny7 3 years ago
jkleaka: thank goodness the US is finally realizing that people like yourself don't stand for American values, but pure greed and tough-guy egotism enforced with Fascism and extremely unhinged propaganda. It is painfully obvious to the rest of the world(and now most Americans)that the willful ignorance you display is the main reason why the US is falling apart. How can you not realize that arguing with abuse, no facts and open contempt for any idea that's different to yours NO LONGER WORKS
cinesimonj 3 years ago
yeah!! lets all be pussies like you democrats and not care about anyone but us. Our fore fathers who fought at Normandy would be disguisted with wimps like you!@!! It is funny how all the democrats are asking this guy questions. There is no such thing as global warming it is a natural phenomenom
jkleaka 3 years ago
your forefathers would recognize you for the fascist you are
cinesimonj 3 years ago
It's a shame that from the sacrifice of those individuals that people like you are ever born. You're macho-bullshit breed of so-called "Americans" are dying out fast. How does it feel to stand for nothing and be on the brink of being steamrolled by a better and brighter class of human beings? Must make you pretty mad? What are you doing about it; nothing, What can you do about it; nothing. You insult democrats and claim to be for soldiers. Answer me this; how many democrats died in that war?
MrHerbgreen 2 years ago
"I don't recall" Who is that Motherfucker preach these guys.
appatel 3 years ago
go bernie sanders
thebuttfacedkid 3 years ago
fuck all you tree huggers. If it wasn't for republicans the USA would be a socialist gov't. Democrats suck
jkleaka 3 years ago
well maybe socialism won't be bad, at least everyone will have the chance to go to college, have health care, and live in a society that better serves its citizens. at least our taxes would be put to good use.
besides, at least we like trees and want them around for a long long time. you an go live in a desert.
nuavecmoi 3 years ago
I am sure you are voting for Hiliary. Get a clue
jkleaka 3 years ago
STOP BEING STUPID! go watch >LOOSECHANGEFINALCUT @google Videos, then go listen to >republicbroadcastingdotorg and You will B SMART AGAIN!
777profit 3 years ago
It is how Republicans run government:
Arrogant, clueless bureaucrats.
Sad. We need change. Desperately.
eqhammerkeg 3 years ago
Why do you keep incompetent fucks like these hired? Does the overseeing committee has teeth or not? Enough of bunch of bullshit ... the guy is incompetent and most importantly a disrespectful fuck ... fire his ass and make sure his career ends here.
J4cK4LL 3 years ago
he doesnt work for the legislative branch, he works for the executive branch. and if bush wants him to stay put, he will until he's convicted of something. my question is when does comtempt of congress kick in?
Gunman610 3 years ago
Global warming is a load of bunk....
wpiman 3 years ago
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poopieblood 3 years ago
To fair to Johnson, some of those questions are stupid. In administrative terms, "bold action" is utterly meaningless. In administrative terms, a "crisis" would mean the sea is inundated a city or the some immediate problem had arisen. That doesn't mean climate change isn't happening or that action should not be taken.
What isn't clear is the issue this video is about. Some background would be helpful.
linuxluver 3 years ago
when you listen to the rhetoric, particularly the diction, the name for the global "crisis" isn't "climate change". this term climate change was used bush to lessen the effect of the more accurate term global warming. this man is obviously being told what to. but he doesn't want to say so -- so he talks in circles. the questions are meant to pin him down to something specific and to get a sense of if he understands the seriousness of global warming and from the interview he doesn't understand.
nuavecmoi 3 years ago
.... sail away from me...
livedeadhead 3 years ago
Thanks
GroovyVideo2 3 years ago
why have we elected these guys. all of them are an embarrassment.
seanf4i 3 years ago
ship of fools............
Deathicorn 3 years ago 3
never trust a man with that amount of flab under his head
8data 3 years ago
Should have cited the prick for contempt of Congress and locked his ass up. Oh yea I forgot Congress has no balls.
putittogether 3 years ago
Liz Trotta is a terrorist!
WashMitt 3 years ago
I wouldn't trust any of these bureaucrats to walk my dog.
mcgrawtim123 3 years ago 2
2:04 to 3:22 = Dan Ackroyd and Steve Martin on SNL
MrGovtCheese 3 years ago
Stonewall Johnson is gettin bigger
hernan021091 3 years ago
What a fckin tool.
jkdude 3 years ago
It brings to memory the time when Oliver North was evading answering in any way that could put his President in danger of perjury. He kept repeating that he could not recall any discussion about selling arms to Iran. Oh, and Canada may have social programs in place, but doesn't it improve the standard of living?
esherp 3 years ago
Actually, the standard of living is higher in Canada than in the US. It's also higher in Japan, France, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, etc. etc. ad infinitum, basically everywhere that has a decent national health system.
frellthat 3 years ago
The US has social programs too, that are much like Canada...
In fact, people on these programs are treated better then their veterans are.
Pleblian 3 years ago
White tape? What the hell?
Never a straight answer with the Bush-Cheney crowd.
Give these sleaze bags the long overdue boot.
Anonologist 3 years ago
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777profit 3 years ago
Hey, I'm from Vermont and I apologize to all youtubers for how Senator Sanders was acting. Global warming is an issue that needs to be resolved and it cant be resolved by people being dicks to each other. Bernie Sanders is a Socialist Dick that needs to move to Canada.(No offense to any people from other Socialist Countries, that works for other Countires But as far as I'm concerned, America is a fucking Democracy and not sociaist) Im sorry for the way that Sen. Sanders was being a Dick.
Degmar22 3 years ago
yea i agree, that guy can go fuck himself.
zdwade 3 years ago
He's an idiot and a socialist douche that needs to move to canada
Degmar22 3 years ago
Canada is a democracy douche bag. As a matter of fact we can vote our leader out of office if he/she is an idiot at any time. You can't.
hassleoffa 3 years ago
Canada's definatly Socialist
Degmar22 3 years ago
America's definitely a disaster.
hassleoffa 3 years ago 3
Dixon X , shut the fuck up. I thought he outstanding in dealing with those liberal turds. These people will be the death of America.
helocast111 3 years ago
minutia of administrative procedure! hahahhahahhaahahahah
F4O4U4R4S 3 years ago
This guy works for the oil companies, doesn't he?
Why is anyone surprised by his answers? er... I mean -- his lack of answers?
DillonX 3 years ago
Well I would say your 1/2right, cause the bush administration has had a rubber stamp for 4yrs which was comprised of a majority of republicans. How ever I think BOTH sides of the aisle are full of it and the more people don't write to these representatives, rally, march and protest the more they will continue to just do what they want. Especially with the dems that have taken the majority and sat on their hands, bush should have been impeached A LONG time ago.
ealfinez 3 years ago
The real problem here is not the Bush Admin - its the Democrats who sit and complain that guys like Johnson are such bad guys but dont do anything about it. Bush should have been impeached two years ago. Thats the Dems fault, for pretending to be brave. They enabled the Bush Admin to pull most of this shit. Johnson can lie because there are no consequences for lying.
driftersmanifesto 3 years ago
Bush & Cheney believed from day-on that they could run this country as a DICTATORSHIP --THEY BELIEVE THE CONGRESS AND AMERICAN PUBLIC HAVE NO RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
This is not the America Thomas Jefferson dreamed of.
DillonX 3 years ago
Your retarded, go kill yourself. Soon America will be rid of Bush so shut the fuck up you dickwad
Degmar22 3 years ago
You know "bold action" requires a lot of money. and to raise it you need to either raise taxes, or borrow money from China, or some other country, or porint money out of thin air. Of course China is currently enjoying economic growth, and they are not going to slow down. So what does bold action entail? Invade China?
farhadcoyote 3 years ago
What if the global warming can not be reversed? It is clear there is global warming, but how sure are the scientists on what causes global warming? Hubble telescopes pictures recently revealed that the ice caps (or ice like caps) situated at the poles of Mars are also reducing. Shall we blame the current administration for that too? Everybody knows that these monkeys in congress are using this to bash Bush. They don't care about global warming. And yes I have seen Al Gores videos on this.
farhadcoyote 3 years ago
Enabling corporations has been the calling of THIS administration and I would trust a scientist a bit more than I would some monkey who's loyalty lies with his party and interest group. GREED is what drives this government and its painfully obvious by this mans testimony, a clear disregard for who he is supposed to answer to. Everyone is lining their pockets right now to guard themselves from the economic fall out.
ealfinez 3 years ago 3
As long as people vote for Bush, they don't deserve better than this jackass in charge.
Too bad the world deserves better than an idiot refusing to deal with global warming
Desember07 3 years ago 3
Yeah... what the hell TPM... this is the hearing from a couple months ago... can you explain why this is being rebroadcast here?
cilleysf 3 years ago
Didn't this same hearing happen a couple months ago?
cilleysf 3 years ago
And yet none of these losers have the guts to just impeach.
frellthat 3 years ago 4
....did he just say, "clear the record" like the reporter can just go back are re-type what he said?
or am i misunderstanding?
SKYfox911 3 years ago
They should slap that big butterball in jail!
Montagraph 3 years ago 4
Genuinely sad... :/
Everybody there knows what's happening... Aggravating to say the least.
aengelius 3 years ago 2
"Greatest government in the world" lol
if it was so great you wouldn't have these mealy mouthed turkey-necked douchebags in charge of the EPA.
americans need to wake up and realize how rotten to the core their government is.
historywillabsolve 3 years ago 12
That was almost comical! At least these guys are changing it up from the very over used "I don't recall..." or pulling a Roberto as the saying goes. You got to love Waxman, laying the hammer down.
F4O4U4R4S 3 years ago 5
I bet he recalls how much money he is being paid. . .
cityboating 3 years ago 7
Yeah, and why did Waxman NOT have him removed?
Yawn - another day in the annals of the corrupt US government.
ladybroadoak 3 years ago 2
Bush appointee is more correct.
jla3490 3 years ago 3
i hate dumb white people like that...not all of em....just the dumb pasty white ones that dont really giv a shit bout nething but themselves and their money
domino18717 3 years ago
the reason this is not a ood iece of reporting is that Johnson's answers are edited so frequently that We don't get a real sense of his dishonesty. This is hardly necessary, because Senator Sanders cuts him off so much already. A beter report would let us hear his answers in totality, so we could actually judge his character.
jfrsnjhnsn 3 years ago
those Representatives love to hear themselves talk.
Virginian9000 3 years ago
This is the Book of Revelations for atheists.
There has been no warming trend in the last decade. It has flat-lined. Google London Tribune Global Warming. Godless people using fear-mongering and intimidation to force people into unfair treaties when the rest of the world hasn't taken the initiative to implement Kyoto. Heck, India and China are exempt from the getgo. FAIL!Shame, Veracifier with your Green cult. See John Stossel on Global Warming 'deniers'
dingorex 3 years ago
Are you tying to refer to a book complied of Hebrew text that have nothing to do with people who live on the continent on which this governmental discussion is taking place? Please do not try and play role playing games with the world. This man is a liar and people are angry at him. Do not talk about magic and mythological creatures while the adults are talking. Thank you, now go play in the other room and talk about the tooth fairy being late and that silly Santa being drunk...
GideonXer 3 years ago
When do we the people say enough? We need to hang a sign around this guys neck so he can never work again and his kids will have to contend with his choices.
timluns 3 years ago
Ahahah, this guy is such a baffoon. Dear god. At least he's not as bad as Rumsfeld.
twhichy 3 years ago
OMFG!!! Shit like THis IS what is Fuckin up our Country.! >=[
Vwatcher12 3 years ago
If we had a dollar for every BS answer given by some clown in the Bush Administration, we could pay off the national debt....
and have enough left over to build enough prisons to hold them all
bushputz 3 years ago 3
Put the dumbest of the dumb in charge and let them dismantle their respective departments and you have defined the cronyism which is this ignorant overbearing administration.
blair227 3 years ago
Just look at how disrespectful and dishonest is this guy to the congress and he is just a head of a fringe organization. After all this you call this the greatest democracy in the world. What a bunch of loosers.
wisemansden 3 years ago 2
Routine conversations with the executive branch? On a myriad of issues? But they were just routine, right? Routine conversations. Not emergency conversations, no. Routine conversations. And that's what he's doing here. His Stonewall routine.
spudwillis 3 years ago
He must have taken some lessons from Christine Todd Whitman.
sister72 3 years ago
The Bush Administration believes they can operate secretly -- without letting Congress or The American Public know what they're doing!
We must get rid of these scumbags!
DillonX 3 years ago 4
They get the checks, we get the balance!
BirdlandBeat 3 years ago 2
"I did not have sex with that woman."
Kerkopes 3 years ago
If I were the democrats in Congress I wouldn't pass any more laws for the administration from this point on. The only recourse the voters have is if the democrats continue to play the administrations game is to vote them all out in the next election.
pongman 3 years ago 3
checks and balance
bush administration interpretation
cheques and bank balance
bargark 3 years ago 2
corporate douche bags have taken over the EPA.
Just another day in the BUSH JUNTA.
Fuck Mccain too.
3henchmen 3 years ago 5
This is dumb just waterboard him ;)
sefrzan 3 years ago 4
I can't help but wonder how much of this circus congress has created through years of inaction. Wasn't the last session called the do-nothing congress, or something? They have laid too still for far too long, to the point where the executive branch knows they can thumb their noses at these committee hearings, and no one does anything about it. This needs to change, and those bastards in the White House need to be held accountable for their arrogant disregard of the country they govern. (grrrrr)
lookingforananswer 3 years ago 2
"as I said"
danthemango 3 years ago 3
I thing if you gave that guy a kick in the nuts, he might give you and honest grimace and groan. Otherwise forget it. Take him over to the waterboarding salon.
hypnofan35 3 years ago 5
awesome video but the audio is out of syn in the last minute or so
khafanov 3 years ago 2
contempt does not exisit any longer...
Imagine trying to get out of a charge as a citizen in court for a SMALL CHARGE...
this is re-GOD-DAM- Dickulas
immumezombie 3 years ago
Sounds like contempt to me. But don't get a ruling until after Jan 20.
jeffreymcneill 3 years ago 2
The last clip will be a classic for years to come...
nbwulf 3 years ago 4
I wonder how this guy ended up like this?
asdffd 3 years ago 4
He's been rewarded for being a lapdog for the powerful, probably his whole life.
I can just see him being the biggest brown-nosing tattle-tale in the class while also being the biggest cheater, maybe the class bully's sidekick. The consummate asshole.
SubmarinerAndroid 3 years ago 3
dubya's legacy...douche bag city
buminberkeley 3 years ago 6
This comment has received too many negative votes show
fuck you
CO0LTUBE 3 years ago
Holy shit this guys making me wanna kill myself! Can a new president fire him or is the procedure different?
KaLeeDo2 3 years ago 6
Yes the new President will appoint new agency heads, including a new EPA director.
However we shouldn't let people like him finish out their terms as if they have done their jobs just fine. They need to be punished now.
SubmarinerAndroid 3 years ago 6
If McCain is "elected", we will likely see the same people or identical douchebag replacements.
dhprince 3 years ago 5
i agree. now the republicans are moving away from bush, but only because he is unpopular. when he was taking the country to hell -- including the economy, foreign relations, and war -- in the beginning, where were these people trying to stop him. they're all the same. i do believe that mccain will be the same.
nuavecmoi 3 years ago
Thats funny, how many democrats followed Bush right after 9/11
nice try at logic sir
number1yangsta 3 years ago
i would agree with you, but followed is such a first concrete term. i think democrats unwillingly went along because of the popularity of president bush and of the war. i am not saying that what they did was right. but its more complex than just saying they followed. i am sure we can agree on that. it was a charged political climate that the democrats couldn't win, because in america pro-war was winning over anti-war.
nuavecmoi 3 years ago
comforting to know the usa voters never chose these people
joebonk 3 years ago 5
It's amazing & disgusting the number of slimy characters Bush has hired to run our government.
dafttool 3 years ago 7
holy shit
Deweydecible 3 years ago 3
What a mess, this is the kind of stuff that brings governments down. When people can't come together as officials and work to fix a country's problem, nothing gets done. Bush should be ashamed (like he can feel that) of appointing this man, he's a hack and clearly incompetent.
bernlin2000 3 years ago 5
Bernlin2000-
Surely you don't think the "gentleman" is "incompetent". This is EXACTLY what Bush has ordered.
Just like Carl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld, Condelezza Rice, Harriet Miers, Josh Bolton, Dick Cheney, I. Lewis Libby, Jack Abramoff, etc., et al.
Almost every member of the Bush administration is currently involved in, covering up, or charged with decietful, scandalous, criminal behavior.
...also, Bush should not be ashamed, he should be in prison, or worse.
eincali 3 years ago 3
what a dick
osiris33 3 years ago 2
I totally agree with Boxer.
mmm413 3 years ago 2
"Stonewall" Johnson.
cvjucla3 3 years ago 2
that was scary ...
sauerkreatur 3 years ago 2
"This is not the way we should run the greatest government in the world."
...
*Or any government.
sfvcubster 3 years ago 2
what, exactly, are they questioning him about?
spartan2600 3 years ago
umm im not sure...i think whether he has a soul?
mcalien24 3 years ago 4
How long can it last?
Who gives up first?
Will he ever answer a question?
Paulginz 3 years ago
I think the Bush administration envisioned the EPA post to be a ceremomial one. They had no idea that the role of the EPA would entail protecting the environment, or that the head of the EPA in the administration would be employed to actually care or even be concerned about improving our environment. Another Bush adm. official who would rather see CORPORATE PROFITS stay afloat than PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT.
cvjucla3 3 years ago
Fuck this Johnson guy. What a waste of a human being who does nothing productive but cash a check that he doesn't deserve. Please fire, arrest, sue... him!
OneRottenTomato 3 years ago 2
This guy makes Alberto Gonzalez look like an amateur.
getplaning 3 years ago 3
sorry for the cryptic troll humor....
moustange 3 years ago
Johnson used to mow the presidents lawn in crawford before this.
RUKiddinMeHuh 3 years ago 2
Bush had it in his gut that this guy would do a good job.
spartan2600 3 years ago
West Virginia did not exist by that name in 1824. Please clarify.
moustange 3 years ago
Now that's a well trained poodle.
mcresearch 3 years ago
Wow!! He did not give one straight answer...
atowari 3 years ago
the bush administration is the most corrupt in the history of america. this so called "christian" and his admistration disgust me and most americans.
if anyone is stupid enough to continue to vote for anyone in the "christian"republican party needs to have their head examined.
wntoply6 3 years ago 3
I read once in a book about the Occult of the Third Reich (Thule Society) and other secret societies that conspire against the general public that when politicians like to say they believe in "God" it doesn't really have to mean the Christian God that we are familiar with. There exists a Satanic cult and I've also read that members included such people as Benjamin Franklin! This Illuminati cult and Saturnalia. They worship this planet Saturn. Since I moved to Germany I learned about cults.
sabrinac1 3 years ago
I really like the senators who are questioning him though
marthaharitoad 3 years ago
Hold the phone...
A Republican appointee putting debunked crackpot ideology ahead of the health of Americans?
Who knew?
Oh right. Everybody.
jvillanomo 3 years ago 4
You got to love America, one of the few places you can get a high paying job and not be held accountable for anything!
BayerLexan 3 years ago 6
Stephen Johnson turns my stomach everytime I listen to him.
oldbaldy129 3 years ago 2
I hope this guy isn't on the death star when luke swiches off his targeting computer
jased30 3 years ago 3
This is the most evasive question answering.
poop121 3 years ago 2
Sounds very much to me like Contempt of Congress.
dogstar7 3 years ago 4
Whether it is or isn't, you can bet your last dollar that both he and his lawyers have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to define if it is.
leanderl 3 years ago 2
I love this video!
This guy should be put on the TITANIC seconds before it is sinking: I bet he would still deny that it is sinking, if the administration told him to do so!
By the way, folks, check FOREIGN reports on the effects of the hormones you are given (without even knowing it) with your regular milk! The bovine growth hormone, for example!
These people are really crooks!
CapitanoCorto 3 years ago 7
There are much more painful and interesting methods of execution. Stoning, dipping him in a vat of hot cooking oil, Chinese water torture, fed to lions, burning at the stake. Get creative.
dhprince 3 years ago
lol. but proving his incompetence is funny, but hard to watch. republicans talks about family protecting values, but more than terrorism, global warming is much bigger and the bush admin, no the republicans, don't agree. so down the line when we feel the effects, they will blame it on the dems, because the dems weren't hardcore in pushing the issue. besides we need cleaner violence...like putting him on mars to show him what earth might become. he would be out of sight and def out of my mind.
nuavecmoi 3 years ago
I nominate you for a Golden Duke sir.
chumashfalcon 3 years ago
Would someone please post the consequences that people like Stonewall here would face if the Committee members are sufficiently dissatisfied with the answers given to their questions?
If their only stick is a contempt charge, it would seem that any administrator could lie to Congress if the only way to prove their guilt is to compel them to tell the truth.
sennapods 3 years ago 2
hahahaha as an administrator I consider myself a human, haha this is why our country is collapsing
CanadianVandal 3 years ago
I like how hard the chairman hit his gavel near the end of the video! HAHAHHAHAHHA
E P A : emasculated penis association
russelljgarner 3 years ago 3
Mccain would reappoint this idiot to the EPA.
Bucksin07 3 years ago 13
McCain might as well adopt the following as his campaign slogan: Four (to eight) more years.
dhprince 3 years ago
This is sick!
lhooq21 3 years ago 2
WTF...?
justcallmesoso 3 years ago
...this is a dog and pony show.
ENJOY YOUR GLOBAL COOLING!
cheeseaura 3 years ago
@#%% $#@% $#@%$#@%%#$!!!!
jstoby 3 years ago 4
I wish there was a way moments like this (and the other ten thousand just like it over the last eight years) could be distilled into something that could be campaigned on... and put in front of people who otherwise only understand $400 haircuts and bowling scores, to drive home just how important the party you're voting for really is. Because this IS it. As a country, you are putting this guy as the head of our environement when you put a check by 'R'.
leanderl 3 years ago 3
thats how republicans weasle there way out of the truth and problem solving for the America people, they keep ducking questions.
if that dont work the go to foxnews and question your patriotism then my fellow white dumb people come out of the woodworks without a clue to support them,it alway works on them,but the joke is always on them they are struggling just like me and they win,we suffer and our families and friends are sent to war
realpointz 3 years ago 5
Very sad indeed.
jclayton59466 3 years ago 3
these types of guys should be put on trial for crimes against the people and held for contempt of court, if any average Joe went into a hearing with these kind of answers they would be thrown in jail for contempt
gibbie513 3 years ago 5
USA is more corrupt than 3rd world dictatorship
Gilliatt83 3 years ago 7
Bernie! Bernie!
WadeBlazingame34 3 years ago 2
Wow are the liberals growing some balls
almandeto 3 years ago 5
I hope so, but I'll believe it when the contempt citations go out. Way past time to start handing out jail time like candy.
kuriostone 3 years ago 6
Only when they begin putting Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Gonzalez, Rove, and the rest on trial for the highest possible charges of treason and crimes against humanity.
dhprince 3 years ago
powell left because he saw something wrong. i don't see why these other people stayed and defended bush at the expense of the american people and american interest abroad. the burmese gov't is scared to take help from america because of what might happen if they let us in. its such a sign of peace when you send war ships to deliver aide. lol. i agree with you, but when rosy on "the view" said the same thing, people said she was unpatriotic.
nuavecmoi 3 years ago
sad...simply sad.
toby6661 3 years ago 2
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR!
gallomex13 3 years ago 3
hmmm i kinda wish the original clip was kept in tact...
DrRobotron 3 years ago
Gah, this is bullshit. How did this happen?
erjomegjo 3 years ago 2
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eincali 3 years ago
"as a human being"...
I'm not sure that turn of phrase applies to Stephen Johnson.
xTheOxx 3 years ago 3
Wow, Stonewall is re-born!!!
gobigorange99 3 years ago 4