Senator Ossoff did as much as anyone can to show the level of incompetence displayed by Todd Blanche. If Blanche is confirmed, it will be one more stain on the Republican reputation. Such as it is.
I’m sorry to correct you but I believe that you have a little mix up here. Senator Ossoff clearly made the DNI nominee, Jay Clayton show his level of incompetence and his devotion to Trump today.
The Republican that really disappointed me today at the confirmation hearing of DOJ, Todd Blanche was Tom Tillis, NC. He had every opportunity to stand up for truth, integrity and the rule of law but instead he chose to grandstand about “Biden’s weaponization of the DOJ” and “Democrats looking in the mirror”, blah, blah, blah. He flattered Blanche. Never asked one substantive question. He’s leaving as a total loser in my opinion.
Mike, I sure hope you are right. Trumplandia has caused enormous damage to this nation and to the world in general and not a single person has been held accountable. Journalists have been targeted if they say something President Thinskin doesn't like as are entertainers. Protesters who have used some violence on behalf of inmates in a concentration camp prison have been given outrageous sentences that make the judge giving those sentences look like an idiot worthy of disbarment and removal from the bench. Our Toddy (or is that Toadie) Blanche has committed corruption for his toddler-in chief and he will most likely be given the job of AG. This is disgusting and we all do need to fight it with everything we have because it does not get better, particularly with Trump's dementia worsening and his white house toddler pool using that to make greater inroads into destroying our democracy!
Lots of 'them' are likely eaten up by real fears of retributions and hit lists, but it goes with 'the territory' (to quote The Music Man) that this administration has chose to define, so that by not speaking up and calling out, they all will have shame for their remaining time. Senator Ossoff said it perfectly.
We can only hope - and show up in numbers too big to ignore, stand up against obviously illegal and immoral manipulation of our congressionally approved laws and speak up loud and proud for ourselves and each other. We need to vote out the enablers.who line up to kiss Trump’s backside.
That leaves us with the only remaining wildcard: Cornyn. He’s not running again so there’s a slim chance that he’ll pull a John McCain with a thumbs down. Or will he pull on a pair of Susan Collins’ pants and bow down to Trump like the rest of these cowards masquerading as politicians?
I agree, based on the experiences I've had communicating with him over the years. He apparently did not regain his cojones when he lost the primary to the obviously criminal Ken Paxton.
I thought it a shame. I keep wondering if many of these apparently intelligent people have something seriously naughty in their backgrounds not so far known that the Prince of Orange would blab out if they don't toe the line.
I was fairly sure of this in Graham's case. I always wondered how McCaine would have responded to this. Democrat that I am, I do miss him. McCaine, certainly not Graham, who didn't even rise to the standard of a good southern cracker. Bah.
John, I feel the same way, and it deepens my interest in the Epstein files or whatever else these assholes have down their pants, I know they have no balls, that's plainly evident.
You have to wonder if someone who so badly wants a job that you have to admit, doesn't pay all that well, and requires some horrific putting up with crap, should be disqualified for wanting it.
Thom Tillis is my senator, and I can tell you that I did not expect anything but what we saw from him. He is, as you say, a total loser; also a spineless sycophant who lacks any moral courage or conviction, despite his protests otherwise. I am happy to see the two-faced coward go. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Thom.
Tillis calls himself a conservative. What he is conserving is his ability to get a cushy job when he comes back home to North Carolina. His circle of friends in his home State are the very greedy rich people who can make his life after DC very comfortable. He is not going to mess that up.
It was Senator Mark Kelly who explained to the viewing public (and I would bet large sums of money that his comments will never be seen by Fauxnooz viewers) why the Senators needed an answer from Blanche.
Sen Kelly said (and I am paraphrasing)that Trump was not in the room. But there would be times when Blanche was in the room with Trump, and if he did not have the courage to disagree with Trump in that hearing, how could they expect him to have the courage to disagree with his boss when as a member of the Cabinet he was face to face with Trump. It beautifully explained why what is being played as badgering by the Dem Senators by the whining
Right wingers was instead the Senators testing Blanche’s character. And showing why he utterly failed the test.
Yes, I saw that interaction later. Both Kelly and Ossoff had that calm, unflappable demeanor that said they meant business and were not about to put up with the non-answers from Blanche. You're right, though: the half of the country that needs to see those clips either won't find them on their network of choice (heaven forfend they ever heard of C-SPAN), or won't think the performance by the execrable nominee was anything of note.
My understanding is that it will only take 1 R "NO" vote, just uno, to send Blanche off to the New York Bar Association with his license at stake per Judge Williams' court order.
In California our CA State Bar has full-blown Trials. That is exactly how John Eastman was eliminated from the practice of law.
No Republican will cut the strings. It could kill their political careers as long as DT is in power. See what happened to those did something in the past that displeased Dear Leader.
If he gets confirmed, it simply confirms the current state of US politics and democracy. Nominated candidates get away with dodging or not truthfully answering questions, often even telling blunt lies and arrogantly ignoring questions from elected officials, thus from the electorate and losing self-control..... These are the people governing the US... It draws a very sad picture in the outside world.....that is why we don't trust the US government anymore.
Hans, there are a lot of us in America who agree with you. For myself, I go way beyond distrust. I trust that everything Trump and his flunkies do is against my country's interests, against a stable and peaceful world order, against progress in medicine, against science, and more. Rather, it's all focused on propping up the fragile ego of our president or enriching him unjustly. It's a very sad state of affairs, and I don't think America will recover for decades at least, and perhaps will never recover. Even if the upcoming elections result in a wave of rejection for Trump, the damage will be very long-lasting.
I have suspected for a long time that Trump is trying to destroy us to please his boss in Russia. Particularly in his second term, practically each action he has taken has been Against the US rather than For the US. Sure, he wants to get rich himself, but I suspect he actually hates our country.
Is he a Russian agent? His actions point in that direction. His goal seems to be to destroy the country he took an oath to protect. His systematic hiring of the least qualified people for important positions indicates that. For example, RFK Jr- anti vaccinator- for the Health. That is not just ignorance or stupidity on his part. He does it on purpose. He finds the person who will destroy that department and democracy.
He is imperialistic like the past and present Russians. He is anti NATO, and doesn’t try to keep our friends close. He has weakened our country more than perhaps any other time in history.
I could go on but you get the picture. It is not just narcissism and greed, though they too are in him. It goes way beyond that. Correct me if my perception is incorrect.
It draws a very sad Reality for most of us here in the US. The majority of us don't trust our currant government either and are appalled at the insanity it spews daily and we are trying our best to fight back. Please don't dismiss us entirely.
I think it’s on Oxygen but if we don’t do something right now, it could be dead soon. I don’t know what will wake up some people in the country. I believe it will take several decades to recover from the current situation. Worse, we could end up like the Roman Empire and others in history.
Yeah. The whole confirmation process is so much more preening and posturing than getting at the truth of the qualifications, biases, and preconceptions of the nominee for whatever position we're talking about. Booker, Durbin, and the rest are as bad as Kennedy, Grassley, and their ilk. A new process is needed. Maybe an independent, bipartisan body not composed of Senators but reportable to them (so that they can still fulfill nominally their constitutional duty of "advice and consent"). Lord knows they ain't doing it now.
Did you watch the confirmation hearing of Brett Kavenaugh?
Or for that matter, John Roberts?
Mousing around and refusing to answer, and in Alitos case outright lying, is de rigeur for Republicans. Attorneys ar particularly skilled at clever obfuscations.
This bloke has no business being a lawyer of any sort: he could and should have been ripped to bits over the IRS/Trump deal. Better coordination by the questioners might have achieved something.
I agree with you that bloke Blanche has no business being a lawyer. Hopefully, the NY Bar Association will take care of that thanks to Judge Williams’ referral.
In the meantime, stay tuned for the witnesses tomorrow who will testify against the blokes nomination.
Even as obvious as it is that he is still Trump’s personal lawyer (as he slipped and admitted today) the Democrats are outnumbered and fighting an uphill battle with these Republican cowards who will confirm him.
Yes, the Democrats could have asked more pointed questions than they did but Booker, Schiff, Whitehouse, Durbin and others got their points across to the American viewers.
Cudos to Republican, John Cornyn for at least having the good sense and integrity to ask the right kind of questions that Blanche needed to be asked.
Cornyn is on his way out so he doesn’t care how he comes across. It really is too bad that Tillis, who is usually bombastic, didn’t go for a gut punch. Really, the democratic senators also did not produce a punch, which is very disappointing. Tomorrow is another day and hopefully the witnesses will reveal quite a bit about Blanche.
I believe the "backing down " attitudes may come from threats we do not see or hear about.
These days remind me of past days of supposedly "good men and women" who began backing out of being nominated to an office or others leaving.
Sometimes I imagine Trump is just a place holder for the use of certain powerful persons within our country. He is not a leader nor is he wise nor, in my opinion, capable. He loves money ....to have for himself. I do not see him EVER getting excited about the prospect of helping our fellow Americans, be it our roads, for the support of our elderly, the education of our children, making sure our water ways are kept clean, pollution addressed DAILY!!!, etc.
Todd Blanche, in my opinion, is to be watched carefully.
I am only sharing what I see/hear on TV....so please....call me ridiculous. Currently, we live in a free country. I would prefer to keep it that way.
Non-responsive and pious are two adjectives you could use, indeed.
I prefer unctuous, oleaginous, obsequious. The whole performance was reminiscent of Miss Piggy repeating "moi?" every time something substantive was said.
Blanche DuBois receives this year's Oscar for Most Deceitful Performance by a Poker-Faced Diva not under oath.
The only precedent in my lifetime for such an evil AG is John Mitchell. But Blanche has already shown himself to be worse. Nixon and Mitchell had enough shame to hide their crimes. Trump and Blanche (and so many other Trump toadies) are shameless, and the spineless Republicans in Congress let them get away with their egregious misdeeds.
Watch a brilliant Jon Ossoff defend the John Lewis Voting bill. And a tetchy Susan Collins try to defend her vote against it. This presages Ossoff's work today.
In light of subsequent Roberts Court predations and the perversions in the SAVE act, Ossoff is prescient in his 2022 support of the need for Congress to protect civil rights and voters' rights. In a sense, it is Ossoff who has carried the mantle of Margaret Chase Smith for decency and honesty. A mantle which Susan Collins has only dragged through the mud toadying to Trump and MAGA. And like Chase Smith, Ossoff spoke out courageously as a very new member of Congress criticizing a very senior member. It ties into Trump's anticipated attack tomorrow night on the Georgia 2020 vote - through which Trump is expected to attempt to unseat the duly elected Ossoff and Warnock.
“I speak for the state of Georgia when I say do not invoke Congressman Lewis’s name to signal your virtue while you work to erode his legacy and defy his will,” said the Georgia Democrat.
Collins joined the Republican caucus in voting against a measure that would have brought the voting rights bill to the floor.
In particular, Ossoff was voicing support for the section of the John Lewis bill that would restore federal preclearance, or the requirement that the U.S. Department of Justice approve any changes to voting law by states that have a history or pattern of voter suppression — a provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that was stripped by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013.
Ossoff singled out Collins by name for vocally supporting preclearance in 2006, but now refusing to allow debate on the bill amid a new wave of voter suppression efforts.
“What I was respectfully noting, Senator Collins, without any implications with respect to your motives or integrity, was what I believe to be an inconsistency, an inconsistency between voting repeatedly to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and lauding it as a signature Civil Rights achievement but then voting to not even allow debate in this body on the legislation that was created to respond to the Supreme Court’s invitation to uphold its preclearance provision,” Ossoff responded."
He will be confirmed, I have no doubt. Because when has this Senate ever said no. There is no bridge too far, no act too despicable and no individual too incompetent or unqualified!
Senator Whitehouse did a great job as Senator Schiff did a great job questioning, Mr. Blanche. He thinks he can let his answers be a snow job. I don’t think so the American people expect better. Block this nomination.
Somewhere in this thread is a quip from Thom Hartmann's "The Last American President" about Roy Cohn and the lesson he teaches us all about DJT and what happens when one associates with him: back in the '80s, Cohn called DJT for help - he was dying of AIDS and had no where to go, left a message to allow him to have a room because he had nowhere to reside. DJT did not call him back, nor did he attend RC's funeral when it occurred.
How do we discover how many pardoned January 6 insurrectionists have been recruited into ICE? Trump and Blanche don't need that slush fund to pay his terrorist servants. Whoever is moved to volunteer can becone part of his Sturm Abteilung.
At the rate we're going, the next president will be JC Vance and Trump will be VP. I am convinced we have enough stupid, uncaring, narrow-minded people out there who don't know how to get out of the rain - or out of their own way...
I am just sickened by this Administration and it's criminal activity. I wish we could impeach them all but I don't know why Congress hasn't impeached orange thing already! He is clearly a criminal!
Senator Ossoff did as much as anyone can to show the level of incompetence displayed by Todd Blanche. If Blanche is confirmed, it will be one more stain on the Republican reputation. Such as it is.
I’m sorry to correct you but I believe that you have a little mix up here. Senator Ossoff clearly made the DNI nominee, Jay Clayton show his level of incompetence and his devotion to Trump today.
The Republican that really disappointed me today at the confirmation hearing of DOJ, Todd Blanche was Tom Tillis, NC. He had every opportunity to stand up for truth, integrity and the rule of law but instead he chose to grandstand about “Biden’s weaponization of the DOJ” and “Democrats looking in the mirror”, blah, blah, blah. He flattered Blanche. Never asked one substantive question. He’s leaving as a total loser in my opinion.
Agreed, but he will look like a turd when the New York Bar disciplines him🫤😂😜
Mike, I sure hope you are right. Trumplandia has caused enormous damage to this nation and to the world in general and not a single person has been held accountable. Journalists have been targeted if they say something President Thinskin doesn't like as are entertainers. Protesters who have used some violence on behalf of inmates in a concentration camp prison have been given outrageous sentences that make the judge giving those sentences look like an idiot worthy of disbarment and removal from the bench. Our Toddy (or is that Toadie) Blanche has committed corruption for his toddler-in chief and he will most likely be given the job of AG. This is disgusting and we all do need to fight it with everything we have because it does not get better, particularly with Trump's dementia worsening and his white house toddler pool using that to make greater inroads into destroying our democracy!
Ruth, we're in Europe for a month and are rpeatedly hearing that Trump is ruinging their lives as well.
John, he ruins every thing he touches! The amazing thing is that so many people are willing to go along with all his ugly sick ideas.
Lots of 'them' are likely eaten up by real fears of retributions and hit lists, but it goes with 'the territory' (to quote The Music Man) that this administration has chose to define, so that by not speaking up and calling out, they all will have shame for their remaining time. Senator Ossoff said it perfectly.
We can only hope - and show up in numbers too big to ignore, stand up against obviously illegal and immoral manipulation of our congressionally approved laws and speak up loud and proud for ourselves and each other. We need to vote out the enablers.who line up to kiss Trump’s backside.
I hope they do, and soon
That leaves us with the only remaining wildcard: Cornyn. He’s not running again so there’s a slim chance that he’ll pull a John McCain with a thumbs down. Or will he pull on a pair of Susan Collins’ pants and bow down to Trump like the rest of these cowards masquerading as politicians?
Collins will be "Very Concerned" and vote to support Trump anyway. I hope Mainers send her and her lack of standards packing.
I'll go with the pants option.
I agree, based on the experiences I've had communicating with him over the years. He apparently did not regain his cojones when he lost the primary to the obviously criminal Ken Paxton.
I felt the same about Tillis.
I thought it a shame. I keep wondering if many of these apparently intelligent people have something seriously naughty in their backgrounds not so far known that the Prince of Orange would blab out if they don't toe the line.
I was fairly sure of this in Graham's case. I always wondered how McCaine would have responded to this. Democrat that I am, I do miss him. McCaine, certainly not Graham, who didn't even rise to the standard of a good southern cracker. Bah.
John, I feel the same way, and it deepens my interest in the Epstein files or whatever else these assholes have down their pants, I know they have no balls, that's plainly evident.
Bill, It never occured to me that the Epstein school of cavorting could be the common link? Copmplete with videos.
You have to wonder if someone who so badly wants a job that you have to admit, doesn't pay all that well, and requires some horrific putting up with crap, should be disqualified for wanting it.
It’s not about the job pay on the surface. In this administration, it’s about the grift and the payoff.
Thom Tillis is my senator, and I can tell you that I did not expect anything but what we saw from him. He is, as you say, a total loser; also a spineless sycophant who lacks any moral courage or conviction, despite his protests otherwise. I am happy to see the two-faced coward go. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Thom.
Tillis is hoping for Lindsay's seat I think. And the people who kept electing Graham are stupid enough to only vote for a sycophant.
I agree, I was disappointed.
Graham was a SC senator. Is Tillis planning to move from NC to SC? Will he even qualify (residency requirements)?
Oh, I missed that. Thankfully. My relatives in NC deserve better: I'm glad he's retiring.
Tillis calls himself a conservative. What he is conserving is his ability to get a cushy job when he comes back home to North Carolina. His circle of friends in his home State are the very greedy rich people who can make his life after DC very comfortable. He is not going to mess that up.
I couldn’t agree more with your observation. As I listened to Tillis, I was disgusted. What a phony!
Some days you can’t see the true criminality before the stain.
Some never see the stain. They are blind worshippers and Trump has lots of them
Yes, a cult — a band of bland loyalists … out for blood.
Exactly.
I love Senator Ossoff.
It was Senator Mark Kelly who explained to the viewing public (and I would bet large sums of money that his comments will never be seen by Fauxnooz viewers) why the Senators needed an answer from Blanche.
Sen Kelly said (and I am paraphrasing)that Trump was not in the room. But there would be times when Blanche was in the room with Trump, and if he did not have the courage to disagree with Trump in that hearing, how could they expect him to have the courage to disagree with his boss when as a member of the Cabinet he was face to face with Trump. It beautifully explained why what is being played as badgering by the Dem Senators by the whining
Right wingers was instead the Senators testing Blanche’s character. And showing why he utterly failed the test.
Yes, I saw that interaction later. Both Kelly and Ossoff had that calm, unflappable demeanor that said they meant business and were not about to put up with the non-answers from Blanche. You're right, though: the half of the country that needs to see those clips either won't find them on their network of choice (heaven forfend they ever heard of C-SPAN), or won't think the performance by the execrable nominee was anything of note.
Todd “Marionette” Blanche could not hide all of his strings. Let’s see if any of the RepubliCon senators will cut them.
My understanding is that it will only take 1 R "NO" vote, just uno, to send Blanche off to the New York Bar Association with his license at stake per Judge Williams' court order.
In California our CA State Bar has full-blown Trials. That is exactly how John Eastman was eliminated from the practice of law.
JDinCA
None of the senators actually cross examined him. IMHO the Titgate episode is devastating.
I wonder why you say that. Perhaps trumps sadism isn't obvious without that?
50 years experience with "sit and squirm" cross examination.
These WIMPY, EMASCULATED REPUBLICAN SENATORS are to "CHICKEN SHIT" to KILL Blanche's nomination!!
The brilliant Canadian political cartoonist Michael de Adder has a perfect take on this exact point:
https://deadder.substack.com/p/arms-length
Sock puppet?
Jane, ooooo, sock puppet! That means someone's hand must be up his . . . .
Indeed!
Wow, Ruth, I think you hit the nail on the head!
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Marionette? Surely, that’s you Pinocchio!
That nose would exceed the length of the reflecting pool
😂
😂
No Republican will cut the strings. It could kill their political careers as long as DT is in power. See what happened to those did something in the past that displeased Dear Leader.
If he gets confirmed, it simply confirms the current state of US politics and democracy. Nominated candidates get away with dodging or not truthfully answering questions, often even telling blunt lies and arrogantly ignoring questions from elected officials, thus from the electorate and losing self-control..... These are the people governing the US... It draws a very sad picture in the outside world.....that is why we don't trust the US government anymore.
Hans, there are a lot of us in America who agree with you. For myself, I go way beyond distrust. I trust that everything Trump and his flunkies do is against my country's interests, against a stable and peaceful world order, against progress in medicine, against science, and more. Rather, it's all focused on propping up the fragile ego of our president or enriching him unjustly. It's a very sad state of affairs, and I don't think America will recover for decades at least, and perhaps will never recover. Even if the upcoming elections result in a wave of rejection for Trump, the damage will be very long-lasting.
I have suspected for a long time that Trump is trying to destroy us to please his boss in Russia. Particularly in his second term, practically each action he has taken has been Against the US rather than For the US. Sure, he wants to get rich himself, but I suspect he actually hates our country.
Is he a Russian agent? His actions point in that direction. His goal seems to be to destroy the country he took an oath to protect. His systematic hiring of the least qualified people for important positions indicates that. For example, RFK Jr- anti vaccinator- for the Health. That is not just ignorance or stupidity on his part. He does it on purpose. He finds the person who will destroy that department and democracy.
He is imperialistic like the past and present Russians. He is anti NATO, and doesn’t try to keep our friends close. He has weakened our country more than perhaps any other time in history.
I could go on but you get the picture. It is not just narcissism and greed, though they too are in him. It goes way beyond that. Correct me if my perception is incorrect.
Please don’t give up on us. We are fighting like crazy to get these crooks out of our government.
It draws a very sad Reality for most of us here in the US. The majority of us don't trust our currant government either and are appalled at the insanity it spews daily and we are trying our best to fight back. Please don't dismiss us entirely.
Hans Flikkeme,
We have allowed terrible, lawless, self-serving persons to acquire offices of power and "respect" of which they are unqualified as well as unworthy.
We have NOT been paying attention!
We must take responsibility for our own lack of scrutiny! The character of our leaders does matter!!!
Our DEMOCRACY is nearly DEAD!! A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS is OBVIOUS!!
I think it’s on Oxygen but if we don’t do something right now, it could be dead soon. I don’t know what will wake up some people in the country. I believe it will take several decades to recover from the current situation. Worse, we could end up like the Roman Empire and others in history.
Yeah. The whole confirmation process is so much more preening and posturing than getting at the truth of the qualifications, biases, and preconceptions of the nominee for whatever position we're talking about. Booker, Durbin, and the rest are as bad as Kennedy, Grassley, and their ilk. A new process is needed. Maybe an independent, bipartisan body not composed of Senators but reportable to them (so that they can still fulfill nominally their constitutional duty of "advice and consent"). Lord knows they ain't doing it now.
It is extremely rare to see a nominee rejected. Why? It all depends on which party is in power
Did you watch the confirmation hearing of Brett Kavenaugh?
Or for that matter, John Roberts?
Mousing around and refusing to answer, and in Alitos case outright lying, is de rigeur for Republicans. Attorneys ar particularly skilled at clever obfuscations.
I did. There was living proof of his misbehavior (sexual assault). He denied it and his party supported him. He should never have been confirmed.
This is all on you, John Roberts.
And Mitch McConnell
and FOX NEWS. The list could go on and on.
mostly on stupid voters
and racist dumb loser voters, and the electoral college
This bloke has no business being a lawyer of any sort: he could and should have been ripped to bits over the IRS/Trump deal. Better coordination by the questioners might have achieved something.
I agree with you that bloke Blanche has no business being a lawyer. Hopefully, the NY Bar Association will take care of that thanks to Judge Williams’ referral.
In the meantime, stay tuned for the witnesses tomorrow who will testify against the blokes nomination.
Even as obvious as it is that he is still Trump’s personal lawyer (as he slipped and admitted today) the Democrats are outnumbered and fighting an uphill battle with these Republican cowards who will confirm him.
Yes, the Democrats could have asked more pointed questions than they did but Booker, Schiff, Whitehouse, Durbin and others got their points across to the American viewers.
Cudos to Republican, John Cornyn for at least having the good sense and integrity to ask the right kind of questions that Blanche needed to be asked.
I concur on Cornyn. Where are the rest of them?
Cornyn is on his way out so he doesn’t care how he comes across. It really is too bad that Tillis, who is usually bombastic, didn’t go for a gut punch. Really, the democratic senators also did not produce a punch, which is very disappointing. Tomorrow is another day and hopefully the witnesses will reveal quite a bit about Blanche.
Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA),
I believe the "backing down " attitudes may come from threats we do not see or hear about.
These days remind me of past days of supposedly "good men and women" who began backing out of being nominated to an office or others leaving.
Sometimes I imagine Trump is just a place holder for the use of certain powerful persons within our country. He is not a leader nor is he wise nor, in my opinion, capable. He loves money ....to have for himself. I do not see him EVER getting excited about the prospect of helping our fellow Americans, be it our roads, for the support of our elderly, the education of our children, making sure our water ways are kept clean, pollution addressed DAILY!!!, etc.
Todd Blanche, in my opinion, is to be watched carefully.
I am only sharing what I see/hear on TV....so please....call me ridiculous. Currently, we live in a free country. I would prefer to keep it that way.
I did not see Cornyn's questioning but I understand he is still undecided. Wait to see what he decides.
Yes. See my comment above.
Ya think his people could not be any more despicable, and then someone says "Hold my beer."
Non-responsive and pious are two adjectives you could use, indeed.
I prefer unctuous, oleaginous, obsequious. The whole performance was reminiscent of Miss Piggy repeating "moi?" every time something substantive was said.
Blanche DuBois receives this year's Oscar for Most Deceitful Performance by a Poker-Faced Diva not under oath.
The only precedent in my lifetime for such an evil AG is John Mitchell. But Blanche has already shown himself to be worse. Nixon and Mitchell had enough shame to hide their crimes. Trump and Blanche (and so many other Trump toadies) are shameless, and the spineless Republicans in Congress let them get away with their egregious misdeeds.
Watch a brilliant Jon Ossoff defend the John Lewis Voting bill. And a tetchy Susan Collins try to defend her vote against it. This presages Ossoff's work today.
.https://youtu.be/g_tFhYdu-SU?si=1XvBPnj5KC68JPOP.
In light of subsequent Roberts Court predations and the perversions in the SAVE act, Ossoff is prescient in his 2022 support of the need for Congress to protect civil rights and voters' rights. In a sense, it is Ossoff who has carried the mantle of Margaret Chase Smith for decency and honesty. A mantle which Susan Collins has only dragged through the mud toadying to Trump and MAGA. And like Chase Smith, Ossoff spoke out courageously as a very new member of Congress criticizing a very senior member. It ties into Trump's anticipated attack tomorrow night on the Georgia 2020 vote - through which Trump is expected to attempt to unseat the duly elected Ossoff and Warnock.
“I speak for the state of Georgia when I say do not invoke Congressman Lewis’s name to signal your virtue while you work to erode his legacy and defy his will,” said the Georgia Democrat.
Collins joined the Republican caucus in voting against a measure that would have brought the voting rights bill to the floor.
In particular, Ossoff was voicing support for the section of the John Lewis bill that would restore federal preclearance, or the requirement that the U.S. Department of Justice approve any changes to voting law by states that have a history or pattern of voter suppression — a provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that was stripped by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013.
Ossoff singled out Collins by name for vocally supporting preclearance in 2006, but now refusing to allow debate on the bill amid a new wave of voter suppression efforts.
“What I was respectfully noting, Senator Collins, without any implications with respect to your motives or integrity, was what I believe to be an inconsistency, an inconsistency between voting repeatedly to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and lauding it as a signature Civil Rights achievement but then voting to not even allow debate in this body on the legislation that was created to respond to the Supreme Court’s invitation to uphold its preclearance provision,” Ossoff responded."
.https://mainebeacon.com/collins-ossoff-clash-over-john-lewis-legacy/.
He will be confirmed, I have no doubt. Because when has this Senate ever said no. There is no bridge too far, no act too despicable and no individual too incompetent or unqualified!
Another loyal liar.
Senator Whitehouse did a great job as Senator Schiff did a great job questioning, Mr. Blanche. He thinks he can let his answers be a snow job. I don’t think so the American people expect better. Block this nomination.
Somewhere in this thread is a quip from Thom Hartmann's "The Last American President" about Roy Cohn and the lesson he teaches us all about DJT and what happens when one associates with him: back in the '80s, Cohn called DJT for help - he was dying of AIDS and had no where to go, left a message to allow him to have a room because he had nowhere to reside. DJT did not call him back, nor did he attend RC's funeral when it occurred.
How do we discover how many pardoned January 6 insurrectionists have been recruited into ICE? Trump and Blanche don't need that slush fund to pay his terrorist servants. Whoever is moved to volunteer can becone part of his Sturm Abteilung.
Surviving to the next president without a nuclear war is all we can hope for at this time.
At the rate we're going, the next president will be JC Vance and Trump will be VP. I am convinced we have enough stupid, uncaring, narrow-minded people out there who don't know how to get out of the rain - or out of their own way...
I am just sickened by this Administration and it's criminal activity. I wish we could impeach them all but I don't know why Congress hasn't impeached orange thing already! He is clearly a criminal!
The real Teflon Don had the goods on everybody.
EXACTLY! How do people not understand that we have a mafia boss in the Whitehouse?
The Mafia would never have a boss like trump...find Hoffa's body...
Very true. He’d never become a made man … no makeup allowed.