The brutal, irrelevant, completely graceless interrogations Democrat Senators are inflicting upon various Trump nominees were only to be expected. The Democrats have no honor. They have no convictions they would uphold about courtesy, civility, or decency. Democrat Senators can abuse Republican nominees because the media is on their side. The media will stand behind the Democrats no matter what they say or do.
But were a nominee to tell a Senator exactly what he thinks of the scoundrel, the media would be unanimous in denouncing the nominee. Fear of such denunciations forces the nominee to restrain himself, even if he’s boiling inside. I don’t envy the men and women who have to run that gauntlet.
A few years ago, I imagined a different sort of “interview,” one in which Judge Amy Coney Barrett, then a nominee to the Supreme Court, would give Senator Kamala Harris exactly what she deserves:
Sen. Harris: Judge Barrett, what is your opinion of the decision in Roe v. Wade?
Judge Barrett: It was an outrage. Clearly wrongly decided.
Sen. Harris: So you would vote to overturn that decision?
Judge Barrett: Given the opportunity? I certainly would.
Sen. Harris: How can you sit there and advocate the repeal of a woman’s right to choose?
Judge Barrett: Abortion is murder. If there’s a right to life, there can be no right to murder.
Sen. Harris: I’m appalled that you can consider yourself fit for the highest court in America.
Judge Barrett: I’m appalled that you, who openly defend the murder of innocent children, have a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Sen. Harris: How dare you!
Judge Barrett: Why not? You were never going to vote to confirm me, so why shouldn’t I say what I think?
I think the time has come for such a riposte. The media will never criticize a Democrat, no matter how outrageous his words or deeds. (Remember Teddy Kennedy?) Someone has to do it – and the recognition that no Republican or conservative can “win the media over” should be regarded as liberating.
Pam Bondi, Trump’s nominee for Attorney-General, came close today. I wish she’d really “let it rip.” Alex Padilla deserves to be lambasted publicly for his crude and graceless behavior. Who would ever have a better chance to do it?
Just a quick thought.
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Padilla es un pendejo.
I had the same thoughts as I watched some of the exchanges between Schiff and Bondi and moreso during those between the harridans currently occupying positions in the Senate and Hegseth. I was mentally inserting my own responses to the “questions” (really merely unhinged accusations masquerading as such), which ran the gamut from “Up yours” to “So’s your old lady” to others less polite and ending in “… you!” I could only stomach so much of that parade of marching morons sitting on the dias and looking down at the nominees over the tops of their Shumeresque reading glasses (such an affectation!) until I found myself thinking about General Gan-Ganowicz and his famous line about killing communists, editing slightly to refer to democrats and how I might feel about dispatching them.