Oops -- Marcy Kaptur Mistakes Bernanke for Paulson

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By Tom Blumer (Bio | Archive)
January 21, 2008 - 17:01 ET
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This is Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio):

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Last Thursday, she was at a House committee meeting (HT QandO) and started asking this guy some questions:

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The guy is Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.

The problem is, this is what she asked:

The Ohio Democrat, at a House of Representatives Budget Committee hearing, said she wanted to know what Wall Street firms were responsible for the securitization of subprime mortgages.

She then asked: "Seeing as how you were the former CEO of Goldman Sachs ..." But the only person testifying at the hearing interrupted.

"No, no, no, you're confusing me with the Treasury Secretary," said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

Kaptur backtracked:

"I've got the wrong firm? Paulson, Oh, OK. Where were you sir?" Kaptur said.

Bernanke noted that he was head of the Princeton University economics department.

"Oh, Princeton, oh, all right, sorry. I got you confused with the other one ... I'm glad you clarified that for the record," she said.

Kaptur had confused Bernanke with this guy, Henry Paulson:

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He doesn't look very much like Ben Bernanke.

Darn. Too bad this "Paulsen" is no longer with us, because he might have had a lot of fun at the hearing:

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If a conservative congressman or congresswoman messed up as Kaptur did, his or her mistake would be Leno-Letterman-O'Brien-Stewart-Colbert material for days.

Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.


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for the record

January 21, 2008 - 17:08 ET by landshark

I'm glad you clarified that for the record

The record wouldn't have needed to be clarified if you had bothered to figure who you were talking to, Ms. Kaptur.

She's a HOTTIE!!!

January 21, 2008 - 17:27 ET by Tinian

Marcie Kaptur is almost as hot as Margret Carlson.

And where's Henry Paulson's monocle? I guess he ditched it after his gig on Hogan's Heroes.

Oh yeah, the House of

January 21, 2008 - 17:40 ET by jdhawk

Oh yeah, the House of Representative's Committee on the Budget. That's where they decide policy like what is the best course of action to provide incentives to the American people and our businesses to ward off the slow down that we are experiencing in our economy. And, this congresswoman would be one of the dimocrats, and I do emphasize dim here, that would be formulating that policy.

Yet, she is so clueless that she doesn't know the difference between the Fed chief and one of Bush's cabinet members, Henry Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury.

And, it is not like these two haven't been on the front page of every major newspaper in America and on all the TV news programs for weeks.

Unbelieveable . . .

Yeah, America . . . Keep these clueless halfwits in office - vote defeatocrat in November . . .

marcie marcie marcie...

January 21, 2008 - 17:40 ET by hordog

you have done toledo proud...

Hey Hordog

January 21, 2008 - 21:10 ET by HG Abrahamson

Given ms. Kaptur obvious intellectual prowess it would probably be more accurate to say "You done Toledo proud."

 

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