Sorry, Rep. Conyers--Rev. Moon Reserved the Hearing Room

From Rising Hegemon, here's an interesting observation re: the GOP leadership denying John Conyers a decent meeting room last week to hold hearings on the Downing Street Memo:

Let me see if I have this straight.
Congressman John Conyers tried fruitlessly to secure a real room for discussing the Downing Street Memo.

"Despite the fact that a number of other suitable rooms were available in the Capitol and House office buildings," he writes after being mocked in the Washington Post for playing a "dress-up game" in a tiny room -- "Republicans declined my request for each and every one of them."

But it was no sweat for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon to book a Senate auditorium from the Republican chairman of the Armed Services Committee -- for a grand masque in which the Times publisher, swathed in maroon king's robes, proclaimed himself Messiah?

I guess I still have a lot to learn about how our government works.

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(Footnote: According to Moon's Unification News, Conyers was one of many congressmen involved with an earlier Feb. 4, 2004 "Peace Kingdom" event at the Reagan building, in which Moon was honored in absentia with a crown as "True Father." Moon himself did not attend.)

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