John Conyers, Voice of Reason

Boy, I never thought I'd write something like that post title, but today the liberal lefty earned it:

At least one lawmaker was not amused.

Comedian Stephen Colbert had barely seated himself at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing this morning when US Representative John Conyers, Democrat of Michigan, asked him to leave. Conyers said the committee had not seen so many reporters at a hearing since presidential impeachment proceedings in the late 1990s, and he wanted Colbert to leave so that the committee could carry on with its work.

Colbert, however, did not budge, saying that he was present at the invitation of the hearing chair, US Representative Zoe Lofgren, Democrat of California. But Colbert said if Lofgren wanted him to leave, he would.

Lofgren said she wanted him to stay, and a good portion of Capitol Hill was glued to broadcasts of the hearing.

The hearing was about illegal immigrants and farm work. Colbert, host of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, recently spent one day working on a farm.

Colbert, who got five minutes to share what he called his "vast knowledge" of farm labor, began by touching on the effect of his presence.

"I certainly hope that my star power can bump this hearing all the way up to C-SPAN1," he quipped.

His testimony at times bordered on the absurd.

"The obvious answer is for all of us to stop eating fruits and vegetables," he said at one point. At another, he said, "Maybe the easier answer is to have scientists create vegetables that pick themselves."

The Democrats thoroughly beclowned themselves this morning with this Colbert testimony. They proved that many of their members are more concerned about celebrity than significance, and they've given every GOP challenger ad copy for the next six weeks until the election.  They are not serious people and are completely unqualified to lead the Congress.

I just can't believe that with Democrats poised to take a near historic drubbing in the coming election that any of them could think this high profile stunt was a good idea.