Can you hear me now? No, not with all these senators talking.

April 8th, 2008 at 05:27pm Chuck Sweeny

I’ve been watching C-Span coverage of Senate hearings on Iraq, featuring Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq.

I was hoping to hear a lot from the four-star general. Instead, I’m being treated to soliloquies from a collection of pompous senators, three of whom want to be president.

It’s not just this hearing, though. Every time I’ve looked in on a Senate hearing, I’ve just heard senators talking.

So, I propose we stop calling them “hearings.” I propose we call them “talkings,” because that’s what happens. Senators talk. Witnesses, who are there to answer questions, are reduced to nodding their heads and listening to the senators pontificate.

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