dagblog - Comments for "How ‘Never Trumpers’ Crashed The Democratic Party" http://dagblog.com/link/how-never-trumpers-crashed-democratic-party-31138 Comments for "How ‘Never Trumpers’ Crashed The Democratic Party" en This is why I didn't like http://dagblog.com/comment/281067#comment-281067 <a id="comment-281067"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/how-never-trumpers-crashed-democratic-party-31138">How ‘Never Trumpers’ Crashed The Democratic Party</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">This is why I didn't like Kamala Harris cross-examining in Congress - she gets to a point that pleases her base, those dissecting the tea leaves, but never puts the the shiv fully in, doesn't finish the job, make the politician *own* his piece of perjury and dissimulation. To make him pay not just for the answer, but the horrifying insulting feigned stupidity along the way. It's all luke-warm, I spit it out. AOC on the other hand puts in these sweet yet disembowling "ok, so you just told me something completely batshit insane - moving on..." placeholders, not wasting her 5 minutes, getting it down on the record, *she* ends it on her terms. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Reupping: The single thing you need to know from John Ratcliffe's confirmation hearing today is he said he thought Trump had "accurately conveyed the severity of COVID-19 to the American people."<a href="https://t.co/LDDUblme6U">https://t.co/LDDUblme6U</a><br /><br />The answer is utterly disqualifying.</p>— emptywheel (@emptywheel) <a href="https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1257800888908947461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div></div> Wed, 06 May 2020 05:09:00 +0000 PeraclesPlease comment 281067 at http://dagblog.com