Dem Rep Blasts Wilbur Ross: 'You Have Zero Credibility And You Should Resign'
WELL, THEN.
Rep. Lacy Clay had his homework done and his questions ready for Commerce Secretary and Kate McKinnon impersonator, Wilbur Ross. Inasmuch as one can without moving one's lips, Sec. Ross attempted to answer with deflections and false propriety, and outright lies. Rep. Clay was not here for any of it, and it was a thing of beauty.
First, Clay opened by playing three clips of separate times Ross appeared before Congress to testify that the Census question regarding citizenship status was initiated by the Department of Justice, not Sec. Ross himself or the Trump administration. Then he read directly from a memo dated 8 months earlier, written by Sec. Ross to his staff, wherein he expressed frustration and demanded to know, "I am mystified why nothing has been done in response to my month's-old request that we include a citizenship question. Why not?"
Hmmm...
Ross hemmed and hawed, saying, "Well, don'tchyaknow, these things have to be nailed down pretty far in advance, and stuff, and I'd just, ya know, HEARD that they might want a question, ya know, like that, and I just like ta be ahead of the game, bro, and sup, new haircut?" Okay, he didn't say that. But basically, his answer amounted to the same kind of BS. Rep. Clay was not having that, either, which was reflected in his response-o-beauty, "I'm well aware of that -- wait, no. I have the time. I'm well aware of that because in 2010, I oversaw that census, but when you testified last year you failed to mention any of this, is that correct?"