I'll just bring my wife to work becausssssse ... I have brain damage?

A June 23, 2011 photo shows Paula Broadwell (second from left) watching as Petraeus and his wife arrive for a Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing on Petraeus' nomination to be director of the CIA.

Ok, what the hell is the story?  Why do these people bring their damn wives to a congressional "hearing."  And by "hearing," I mean a session where, with impunity, the opposing political party can make any damn accusations and/or character assassination that occurs to their BB size brains.

I've seen people (Clarence Thomas leaps to mind) bring their wives to these things and their wives end up crying ... I mean, for Christ's sake people ... don't subject your wife to this bullshit ... and who brings their wife to work anyway?

Also, in the same story, I found this tidbit. Oooooo, gossip.

But Broadwell’s father said Sunday his daughter is the victim of character assassination and implied the bombshell story is just a smoke screen for something bigger.

“This is about something else entirely, and the truth will come out,” Broadwell’s dad, Paul Krantz, told the Daily News outside his home in Bismarck, N.D.

“There is a lot more that is going to come out,” said Krantz, claiming he was not allowed to elaborate. “You wait and see. There’s a lot more here than meets the eye.”

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