The stage that is a Congressional committee can be a stressful and merciless place to be. Check out General David Petraeus' experience yesterday:
He slumped forward while Sen. John McCain was speaking. (Insert joke here.) Fred Kaplan on Slate suggests it's a "grim metaphor."
Coming up tomorrow BP CEO Tony Hayward will appear before the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in the House of Representatives at a hearing on the "Role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill." From the Telegraph.co.uk:
"Congressmen will be vying to humiliate the man in the hot seat and he will be well aware that congressional hearings can be part theatre, part show trial, and part ritual humiliation."
How can you not turn in for ritual humiliation?
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