RSSTen ways to spice up these cabinet confirmation hearings
Hillary and Chuck were all over each other.
We're not holding our breath for much drama to come out of these cabinet hearings. Since a lot of the cabinet picks are veteran senators or former senators, they're basically being vetted by their longtime friends and colleagues. Politico says it's going to be nothing more than a "love fest." There's nothing more boring than a bunch of senators making long speeches about how awesome another senator is, as evidenced by Chuck Schumer's introductory love letter preceding this morning's Clinton hearing.
So no blustery accusations? No one asking a senator if they have any sense of decency? Not even a simple "you're out of order!?" If this has to be on our TV, they should do something to help out in the "watchability" department. We came up with a handful of ideas to spice things up, after the jump.
1. For Hillary's hearing, give Bill the power to object to questions and the freedom to use profanity.
2. An obstacle course. Literally. With two rows of tires on the ground and everything.
3. Begin each hearing by making every cabinet hopeful go through preliminary exercises to determine their "Wii Fit Age" for the public record.
4. Make each cabinet hopeful close with a song. You know, like they did it in the old days!
5. Make each cabinet hopeful answer three question cards from the popular 1980's board game "A Question of Scruples."
6. Let Rod Blagojevich run the entire thing.
7. After a cabinet candidate takes a sip from his or her water glass, the committee chairman should say, "You've just ingested a highly powerful poison. If you wish to be given the antidote, you must answer the following questions correctly. First, on the issue of dispersal of Obama's planned stimulus package how would you..."
8. Make the cabinet hopeful sit in a dunk tank.
9. All questions should be posed by a Will.i.am hologram.
10. "Cabinet Confirmation Hearing" has been done to death. But "Cabinet Confirmation Hearing Bus," now that's something I'd like to Tivo.
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posted 11:06 am on 01/14/2009
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I remember seeing commercials for Scruples when I was a kid, and thinking that that's what being an adult must be like. All these years later, I still prefer Connect Four.
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