1) Remember who the current President is and his level of qualification
2)
Ladies, if you doubt that you have what it takes to hold elected office, watch these men questioning Sally Yates. It should remove all fear.
— Laura Seay (@texasinafrica) May 8, 2017
If you’re thinking of running don’t disqualify yourself by giving into the imposter syndrome. Look at the case examples around you.
Open thread…
Corner Stone
I am still experiencing a mild contact high from how she so thoroughly took Ted Cruz down.
SiubhanDuinne
That imbecile new Senator from Louisiana — John Kennedy, of all names — didn’t have any idea what date the Inauguration was (and always is). Basic Citizenship Test/5th Grade Civics class stuff.
hueyplong
It is such a satisfying contrast when Cruz goes one-on-one with a human being.
germy
Was kennedy the one who asked “Have you ever leaked unclassified information?”
Mike in NC
Trump’s mentors included P. T. Barnum and Roy Cohn.
Jeffro
@hueyplong: karma, baby! And Cruz, you’ve got a LOT more coming ’round…
Corner Stone
@germy:
Yes, about 3 times and after they were both already on record as stating they had not. I think he was also the guy that got flattened by Clapper when he answered, “Leaking non-classified information is not leaking.”
KENNEDY: Classified or unclassified? CLAPPER: Well, unclassified is not leaking.
(LAUGHTER)
BretH
Dumb as a sack of rocks is too generous for Sen. Kennedy. But what took it to a new level of stupid was his smarmy condescending attitude.
germy
I love the way Cruz picks questions that have nothing to do with the hearing.
None of these guys suffer from imposter syndrome. They’re all supremely confident in their abilities. I wish they had more self-awareness; enough to cripple them.
Corner Stone
I re-watched the segment where Yates read over the top of Cruz with the more recent statute because it was so beautiful. It’s not often a Senate hearing sends a thrill up your leg.
Feebog
Cruz has been riding on an undeserved reputation as an accomplished debater and attorney. He is neither, as Sally Yates so ablely demonstrated yesterday.
SenyorDave
@BretH: But what took it to a new level of stupid was his smarmy condescending attitude.
I’m not an advocate for being condescending, but can you imagine how dumb a person would have to be to justify Senator Kennedy being condescending to that person?
Corner Stone
@BretH: He thought he had them, that he was going to tear their brickhouse down. You could tell he thought he had them right where he wanted them. Dumbass,
germy
Cruz really thought she’d wither under his “partisan” accusation. He’s that sure of himself.
And then he got up and walked out, signaling to his colleagues that this ruskie nonsense was beneath his consideration.
Boris and Natasha MUST have something on him.
Xenos
Remove all fear? I am now terrified of being elected and having to face Sally Yates.
ThresherK
@Mike in NC: Native Bridgeporter here.
To the best of my knowledge, Phineas T. never hustled marks for “investments” and then used it to pay off previous debts. I don’t know when the axiom “You can’t (con) an honest man”, but Barnum wasn’t a conman.
He was an honest spieler, an empresario, promoting some genuine (and some fake) wonders of the age. Trump’s administration, on the other hand, gives a bad name to “circus”.
Adam L Silverman
@germy: No, that was Cruz.
maryQ
Looking forward to 78-year old Bernie finger wag, shush, and shout over Sally Yates in 2020. Because I can imagine her being the kind to, like, explain shit, as opposed to pounding her chest and shouting “No Fracking!”
Adam L Silverman
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The Moar You Know
The vast majority of people I know could and would do a better job than the current holder of the office. I can only think of about three or four that would be “just as bad” (they probably wouldn’t be) and none – nobody that would be worse.
ThresherK
@maryQ: I’m looking forward to the GOP’s next “let’s embarrass ourselves by grilling (sic) a female Dem on Capitol Hill”.
These R’s are soft. Do they expect everything to be “Fox and Friends” or a mainstream-media-led GOP
pep rallydebate?montanareddog
@germy:
Well, his father was an associate of Lee Harvey Oswald; and Oswald was probably a KGB asset and had definitely lived in the USSR. Just sayin’, as that is about as relevant as the loathsome git’s questioning yesterday.
To repeat what I wrote in an earlier thread, he really is the überbackpfeiffengesicht
mai naem mobile
Forget the Ted Cruz takedown or Kennedy the moron. This hearing was supposed to be about Flynn and the Russian connections to Trump. It wasn’t about the Mooselim ban or Susan Rice’s unmasking.
satby
Any Texans (Cornerstone?) want to weigh in on this guy who announced he’s running as a Dem against Cruz?
Honestly, I wish I could vote for him just based on his name!
Sorry, naked link: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Beto-O-Rourke-Senate-against-Ted-Cruz-11041318.php
Peale
@Corner Stone: Yep. Jeebus. Its like the wingnuts look into law books as they may have stood in 1542 and decide that that must be the law and that no one may have ever changed it. As long as you have a law, any law, that does what you want to do, it must be the law that matters most.
Peale
@mai naem mobile: Yep. This was an attempt to make the hearing about Sally Yates, who is only a witness. The CNN banner headline all afternoon was “Fired Sally Yates to Testify”. Thanks CNN. The hearings aren’t about why she was fired. She isn’t trying to get her old job back.
Miss Bianca
David, speaking of running and like issues…
at our local Democratic Central Committee meeting yesterday, the idea was bruited that we should be sponsoring a “non-partisan” forum (as in, “if Democrat is anywhere near the name, people won’t come”) on what the ACA is, and what the AHCA threatens to change about it. Because I’d been sounding off on the issues informed by what i’ve gleaned from your posts, I was asked to find someone to chair this forum. Help! Is there another you somewhere in CO who wouldn’t mind travelling to the extreme sticks?
kaylee
de-lurking just for satby: I am an unabashed Beto supporter & will be a volunteer soon enough. (I’m a grad student finishing my thesis)
Going off my memory of a local visit: He’s definitely liberal, supports single payer & universal healthcare, pro-choice/pro-contraception type of Catholic (think “Catholic doctrine is for Catholics”, supports public education, etc. Not taking money from PACs, or only from Dem. Party PACs – that part I don’t remember well. But lots of grassroots supports in my very red county (Houston metro area).
Amazing speaker, I think he can we and will be working for that, if not we will at least challenge the slimeball Cruz & make him spend lots of money. I like making Republicans work for their election almost as much as I like them losing; especially the Texas ones.
Also, he’s social media savvy, check out the political figure Facebook page or roll call for his road trip with Rep. Hurd (R – San Antonio-area).
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: How about 2nd Amendment and “you DemocRats’re coming to take our gunz away!” issues?
clay
@Peale:
Although… why WAS she fired? Did anyone ask that? Was it because she (correctly) determined that the Muslim ban was unconstitutional? Or was it because she was warning the Trump admin about Flynn?
This actually seems germane to the hearing. Was she fired because Trump was trying to cover up/suppress an investigation into contacts with Russian agents? Did that come up at all?
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: Sure, that too.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: Tracking… : )
How are you, btw? Hope you’re well, I’m nursing multiple bee stings and a slight sense of grievance against honeybees in general…
Wjs
Ted Cruz lost twenty debates (est.) To a man with the analytical skills of a fifth grader with ADHD. Against a real lawyer? She obliterated his reptilian soul.
Corner Stone
@satby: Very little chance, unfortunately. Has zero name recognition and I’m not sure his ground game plan is going to be powerful enough to make that up. He also reps El Paso area. That’s like saying he is from Mars if you’re talking to Austin, Houston, DFW or even middle sized cities east of San Antonio. The other problem with being from El Paso is that although it should provide a huge platform of voters among the Hispanic/Latino population it doesn’t. Because that voting group is almost impossible to get consistently to the polls. By design of state R’s and also ingrained mistrust of the system.
Cruz will have a ton of money, all he needs and he has people that know where to put it to most effect. Lots of people hate him on sight but “Movement Conservatives” will dance to the polls to vote for his most punchable of faces. O’Rourke is facing a serious uphill battle. I will contribute to his campaign and do what else I can but…
gvg
@Peale: Actually it’s pretty important why she was fired and both the probable reasons reflect badly on the Trump administration as in it makes them corrupt. CNN is actually trying to stick to this point and the GOP is trying to derail it off into inconsequentials. She was fired for refusing an unconstitutional ban (against a religion) or she was fired for truthfully revealing that the Trump administration had a Russian spy working for them. I think it could be both. Don’t get so used to the big media fucking up, that you take everything they do wrong. Sometimes they are right.
There are so many things that smell about this administration that any time News media concentrates on one of the aspects, they are neglecting something else important. This is going to be a problem until we get rid of them.
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: Bee more careful.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: yeah, cuz if I’m not, I may break out in hives!