TPM: Waxman to Doan: STEP DOWN (video up)

[mod mom]

Waxman To Doan: Step Down
By Laura McGann - June 13, 2007, 3:06 PM

Today the head of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) told Lurita Doan, chief of the government’s procurement agency, that she ought to step down.

Doan was back in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today where Democrats wanted to know why she gave the Office of Special Counsel information that seemed to contradict what she first told the committee under oath in March.

The Office of Special Counsel questioned Doan over a possible violation of the Hatch Act about a month after she faced the House Oversight Committee. In a letter to the president released yesterday, Special Counsel Scott Bloch said his findings show that Doan should be punished to the fullest extent possible, which would mean being fired.

The Hatch Act violation stems from a comment she made to her employees about helping Republican congressional candidates. Doan made the comment, according to General Services Administration employees present, at a January 26 meeting at the GSA where Karl Rove’s deputy Scott Jennings put on a slideshow showing key House and Senate races coming up in the 2008 election cycle.

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[spanone]

1. Whew, that asshole is a piece of work. She's as arrogant and bu$hy himself.

I watched her testimony today and I'd say she had ZERO respect for anyone who questioned her abilities. A righteous twit.

[Supersedeas]

5. where do they find these creeps??

[Fridays Child]

2. Did she respond?

The camera cut to her, once, while Henry Waxman was speaking, and she looked disgustingly smug. I wonder what, if anything, she said, after Waxman finished.

[mod mom]

8. with a smirk.

someone on TPM commented they thought Doan chuckled on the video, but in the beginning of the video clip she appears to switch off the mike (I think).

[durrrty libby]

3. What is it with these booshbots? They all have that annoying smirk

[whistle]

4. I watched it and Doan remained defiant and arrogant right to the end when Waxman

...adjourned the committee meeting. She is really a witch of a person and I find it very hard to believe that no employees of hers from the GSA came forward and complained. Or maybe some did.

[tsuki]

7. The only ones that did were the ones that were lazy & incompetent workers.

Yeah, right. I have worked for bosses like her, kiss up, kick down. She's a piece of partisan work.

[pberq]

6. Kick & Nominated