June 9, 2008 - 9:17am
Rohrabacher's Animal House
By Rob Tornoe
U.S Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) couldn't get panties off his mind during hearings Wednesday with DOJ Inspector General Glenn Fine on the Justice Department's role in torture:
I do see here things that seem to be fraternity boy pranks and hazing pranks that I do not -- they might be unacceptable, but they certainly don't fit into the category of torture, which is the word that's been bandied around here.
Rohrabacher managed to use some variation of the phrase "panties on the head" eight times in his 13-minute statement.
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Republican Chicken Hawk talks big.
This sad, sad man thinks that torture we have inflicted in the name of fighting terrorism amounts to panties over the head.
Congressman Rohrabacher is being obtuse in his desire to appear like a hard-core strong on national security kind of guy. In fact Dana is just another hard line Chicken Hawk.
The only picture I recall with man with panties over his head since the issue and pictures came out, was a man in a stress position handcuffed upright to a bunk bed.
Perhaps the frat house Dana was a member of did have stress position hazing. But wouldn't that say something about the man who would join such a society?
Torture is un-American.
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