Comments on: Name that Congressman

By: zero sum

zero sum — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:29:41 +0000

I did hear from an eyewitness that a State Legislator in a major NASA state really did not understand that the Space Station goes around the earth.

By: mike shupp

mike shupp — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:47:50 +0000

Variants of this crack (“I don’t need your comsats; I’ve got DirectTV”) havre been around for a couple of decades. So whoever said this was making a joke, either for the sake of the joke, or to signal that he/she did not want to begin a discussion of the topic.

By: Robert G. Oler

Robert G. Oler — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:41:38 +0000

It could be any number of the 535 who serve as our “elite” representatives…one could pick names out of the phone book and probably do better.

Robert G. Oler

By: Rhyolite

Rhyolite — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:58:04 +0000

I remember someone telling me a variation on this story in 1996. I suppose there are are one or more congressmen who have said this on multiple occasions over the years but it seems equally likely that the story is apocryphal and keeps getting repeated.