Kangaroo Court

A kangaroo court is characterized by dishonesty or incompetence. The definition clearly describes the Senate hearings on energy prices and oil company profits.
The Republican controlled Senate performed one of its ancient ceremonies, that of a public hanging of a varmint by the ears. All the Senate really did was kiss the pearly white asses of the oil company executives that they were supposed to be demanding answers from. The Republicans did not even require the oil company executives to swear they would tell the truth The CEO of the worlds largest oil company said "there were no excess or windfall profits, just profits". The truth is whether it is because of collusion, Arabs, customer demand, China, hurricanes, or the failure to make investments in future capacity, a business person will charge and gouge the most he can get by with, otherwise he will lose his job.
Seeing the CEO of Exxon, Lee Raymond, set before the Senate panel, he reminded me of a big brown bear breathing heavily and grunting through the forest when he encounters a large beehive filled with honey which has blown down from a tree and landed in front of his schnuffling nose. It would never occur to him to think of other less fortunate bears. He simply eats the honey as fast as he can.
We might as well have had Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Moose incharge of the Senate hearings on energy prices. The Captain is honest and a much more serious inquisitor than any of those clowns running the Senate. The oil company CEO's would have never lied to the Captain for if they had, Captain Kangaroo would have sent them to bed without their supper. Greed and glutting run hand and hand so the CEO's would not have wanted any part of going to bed without supper.
The Senate hearings always tend to get boring and when they got to that point, Mr. Moose could have told one of his knock-knock jokes he was so famous for.
Knock-Knock!
Who's there?
The CEO of EXXON
The CEO of EXXON who?
The CEO of EXXON who produced a gallon of gas for 50 cents and charged your stupid ass 3 dollars