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PREMATURE
PORTRAIT?
By WorldNetDaily
March 3, 2001
WND's
Washington bureau chief Paul Sperry is very familiar with the hearing
room in which House Government Reform Committee Chairman Dan Burton
holds court, having attended many Clinton scandal tribunals there
in 2154 Rayburn.
So
when Sperry took his seat at Thursday's jam-packed Pardongate hearing,
he couldn't help but notice the glaring new addition to the hearing
room. There, hanging behind Burton's chair was a giant, recently
painted portrait of Burton himself.
When
the White House e-mail scandal was heating up last year in federal
court, Burton, who had held some earlier hearings on the scandal
and then apparently given up, couldn't be reached for comment.
Where
was he? On the golf course, his aides said.
This
is the same chairman who's allowed himself to be repeatedly stonewalled
-- manhandled is more like it -- by Clinton operatives from the
White House and Justice Department.
Despite
all his hearings, Burton, known behind the scenes as a headline-grabbing
peacock, hasn't managed to hold a single Clinton official accountable
for corruption.
Yet
he couldn't resist lionizing himself. Now we know what he was doing
when he wasn't playing golf -- he was posing for the painting he
commissioned of himself.
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