Monica Goodling’s testimony
ARRRGH! Computer shut down after lovily crafting a beautiful post. Second time within just a few days. Okay… shorter and sweeter.
Monica Goodling’s testimony this past week? Bizarre. You already knew that. She came out, and was a strange bubbly-headed figurine. Yet, even within that bubbly-head exterior, she threw out plenty of incriminations. Understand, it didn’t have the same impact as last week’s testimony from Comey — which was jar-dropping and of an order that Goodling’s typical political shenanigans cannot possibly match.
What should be immortalized is the grilling from the hands at Bobby Scott, which drew the headlines of “Crossed the Line” but also provided the straight ahead ammunition of clarifying “Rules. Law.” And again, no “Rules. Law.” “Rules. Law.”
An interesting dichotomy Goodling did not want to mess around with.
The other explosive tidbit, which enforced her aggrivated parodic persona, came when she was asked what her qualifications were. Her answer? Student Body President. (At Pat Robertson’s Regency Unveristy, naturally.) Nuttily, when pressed for further qualifications, her second answer belied the truth behind the matter: yes, opposition research for the RNC. This was the story of her testimony: she came out as an airhead, and said information that if you scratch away the presentation, is galling to say the least.
I begin to suspect that this slate article states the story behind the story well enough: she is crazy like a fox, and this was all an act. I also suspect that what we saw was we get. Either way it’s not a good scene.