I couldn’t make up “Congressman Lynch”

Posted by Marc Hodak on March 18, 2009 under Irrationality, Politics | Be the First to Comment

You know what kind of party CEO Liddy thinks he was invited to today.

From today’s episode of “WTF?“:

But Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., angrily told the witness the contract read like “the captain and the crew of the ship reserving the lifeboats.”

Liddy replied that he was not at the firm when the contracts were negotiated, and said, as he has before, that he would not have approved them.

Lynch said the terms had been put in place in December, after Liddy arrived at AIG.

But Liddy disputed that. “I take offense, Sir,” he said.

“Well you take it rightly. Offense was intended,” shot back Lynch.

In this case, the offense is so nonsensical that a defense is hardly warranted.  It was like watching Michael Scott going after his nemesis.  What is it about Massachusetts that creates batshit crazy congressmen?