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underpants

(182,832 posts)
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 07:15 AM Jun 2017

(Actual headline WaPo) GOP senators admonish Dem for persistent questioning

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/gop-senator-admonishes-democrat-for-persistent-questioning/2017/06/07/85ff2b52-4bcd-11e7-987c-42ab5745db2e_story.html?utm_term=.b849a6465ec7


WASHINGTON — The Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee admonished California Sen. Kamala Harris, along with other Democrats, and asked her to be more respectful Wednesday as she pressed top intelligence chiefs testifying before the panel.

Harris was questioning Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, asking him if he would send a letter to Special Counsel Robert Mueller giving him unlimited authority in his probe into possible ties between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia.

The exchange was tense, with Harris interrupting Rosenstein as he started to say there wasn’t enough time to explain the answer. When she asked for a yes or no answer, he demurred, and she said, “either you are willing to do that or not.”


Warren also tweeted: “Silencing @SenKamalaHarris for not being “courteous” enough is just unbelievable. Keep fighting, Kamala! #NeverthelessShePersisted”

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(Actual headline WaPo) GOP senators admonish Dem for persistent questioning (Original Post) underpants Jun 2017 OP
Unbelievable... bresue Jun 2017 #1
Nevertheless she persisted. nycbos Jun 2017 #2
Also, this is the oversight committee to whom THEY are supposed to answer. Saying FailureToCommunicate Jun 2017 #3
These monsters are getting more unbelievable every day. Initech Jun 2017 #4
The nail that stands tallest gets the hammer IronLionZion Jun 2017 #5
"Shh! men are talking" oops I think I just mansplained hushing up a black woman. OMG I think I just mulsh Jun 2017 #6
Yet Angus King (correctly) ripped them a new one BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 #7
amazing how that works NewJeffCT Jun 2017 #10
I hope she was wearing white gloves. It is after Memorial Day. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2017 #8
Fukk the white male GOP misogynist pigs. milestogo Jun 2017 #9
I don't recall the hearing or GOP Senator, but ... left-of-center2012 Jun 2017 #11
She was attorney general of California kimbutgar Jun 2017 #12

bresue

(1,007 posts)
1. Unbelievable...
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 07:23 AM
Jun 2017

Take for example Dump's speeches or twitters...they have not been 'courteous' in anyway....but oh, I forgot, he is a man and women are supposed to be present but not heard....

FailureToCommunicate

(14,014 posts)
3. Also, this is the oversight committee to whom THEY are supposed to answer. Saying
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 08:24 AM
Jun 2017

'I don't feel like answering' is unacceptable!

You took an Oath!



Initech

(100,081 posts)
4. These monsters are getting more unbelievable every day.
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 09:09 AM
Jun 2017

Do you want an uprising, GOP? Because that's how you get an uprising.

mulsh

(2,959 posts)
6. "Shh! men are talking" oops I think I just mansplained hushing up a black woman. OMG I think I just
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 09:16 AM
Jun 2017

whitesplained and mansplained. Boy, I am one old white male who's tired of republican cretins

BumRushDaShow

(129,123 posts)
7. Yet Angus King (correctly) ripped them a new one
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 09:18 AM
Jun 2017

and was not interrupted once. Not even for time constraints.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
10. amazing how that works
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 09:33 AM
Jun 2017

isn't it? Elizabeth Warren can't read the words of Coretta Scott King, but it was okay for Corey Booker to do it. Kamala Harris can't question Rosenstein, but King is all over them.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
11. I don't recall the hearing or GOP Senator, but ...
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 09:49 AM
Jun 2017

A couple years ago there was a Senate hearing where a GOP Senator kept throwing question after question at a female witness,
and she kept attempting to answer but he kept cutting her off.

Finally he said
I'm not giving up my time for you to respond !

I wondered if he treated his wife the same way.

kimbutgar

(21,163 posts)
12. She was attorney general of California
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 09:56 AM
Jun 2017

And in San Francisco was a practicing attorney and district attorney. It's in her blood to question you frickin idiot Burr!

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