podfish
01-17-2017, 05:15 PM
from Fox news (https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/01/15/to-preview-trump-presidency-look-at-confirmation-hearings-for-his-cabinet-picks.html) (big surprise) regarding how the hearings are going, from their perspective:
Retired General James Mattis, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for Secretary of Defense, capped a series of head-turning confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill this week.
Early in the week, nominees presented a stark contrast to Senate Democrats. On one side, Americans saw well-prepared, highly dignified appointees appear before elected officials from both parties. On the other side, hostile questioners from the left grilled the nominees, almost reflexively manufacturing attacks on character and asserting gaps in knowledge – which, to a casual observer, seemed nonexistent. Half dozen nominees have been nothing – if not meticulously prepared
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By contrast, a former comic turned Democrat Senator pressed the case for parsing words in questionnaires filed 30 years apart, accusing Senator Sessions first of over- and then by under-inclusion, taking issue with legal terms of which, by his own admission, he knows nothing. Other Senators knowingly took a dark interpretation of Senator Session’s exemplary record on human and civil rights, countermanding the impassioned appeal by liberal Republican Susan Collins of Maine, who sought to preempt character assassination as a tactic.
(https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/01/15/to-preview-trump-presidency-look-at-confirmation-hearings-for-his-cabinet-picks.html)"exemplary record"?? that's a step beyond the typical claim that "he's no racist".
Retired General James Mattis, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for Secretary of Defense, capped a series of head-turning confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill this week.
Early in the week, nominees presented a stark contrast to Senate Democrats. On one side, Americans saw well-prepared, highly dignified appointees appear before elected officials from both parties. On the other side, hostile questioners from the left grilled the nominees, almost reflexively manufacturing attacks on character and asserting gaps in knowledge – which, to a casual observer, seemed nonexistent. Half dozen nominees have been nothing – if not meticulously prepared
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By contrast, a former comic turned Democrat Senator pressed the case for parsing words in questionnaires filed 30 years apart, accusing Senator Sessions first of over- and then by under-inclusion, taking issue with legal terms of which, by his own admission, he knows nothing. Other Senators knowingly took a dark interpretation of Senator Session’s exemplary record on human and civil rights, countermanding the impassioned appeal by liberal Republican Susan Collins of Maine, who sought to preempt character assassination as a tactic.
(https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/01/15/to-preview-trump-presidency-look-at-confirmation-hearings-for-his-cabinet-picks.html)"exemplary record"?? that's a step beyond the typical claim that "he's no racist".