Fireworks during Walker hearing on Hill?



Firefighter waits outside the committee room.


Teamsters made it into the congressional hearing room where Koch whore Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will soon lie testify. There was a long line for the 9:30 hearing, with firefighters, Code Pink members and others union supporters. Stickers were passed out saying "Budget Hoax Brought To You By the Koch Brothers." The overflow room is now filling up.

Rally Girl is there, and she reports her skin is crawling at the prospect of being in the same room with Scott Walker.

Darrell Issa, another Koch whore, is the chairman of the committee. He has a checkered past:

• Twice arrested for felony car theft, accusations of insurance fraud, suspicion of arson, firearm arrests and sleazy business deals.

• Instrumental in firing a prosecutor who put a corrupt Republicancongressman in prison.


• Accused CIA operative Valerie Plame of perjury, called 9/11 "simply" a plane crash and joked that the U.S. treats hospital patients worse than inmates at Guantanamo Bay.

One of Issa's stooges just sent out the following tweet:

DarrellIssa Quite a line for our hearing on crushing state/local debt & its consequences

We think what he meant was "Quite a line for our hearing on crushing the middle class and its consequences."

The Hill is predicting fireworks. So far the best way to describe the crowd is "patiently waiting." The Hill further reports:

Activists see the influence of conservative financiers Charles and David Koch in the hearing, noting that campaign contributions from the brothers and the political action committee of their company, Koch Industries, have gone to several of the committee’s GOP members.

“This fictional debt ‘crisis’ is a distraction created by Walker and those like David Koch, who is funding this crusade,” Harold Schaitberger, general president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, said in a statement. “They want to transfer wealth from middle-class workers to the super-rich and silence the voices of ordinary workers and their unions in the process.”