Democrats' Brains Break

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I don’t even know what I witnessed yesterday. It was bizarre. Let’s first go with the non-Barrett stuff. Nancy Pelosi had a meltdown live on television with *checks my notes* Wolf Blitzer!!!! Wolf! Seriously, Pelosi had the audacity to admit she thinks not making a deal for working families benefits her team politically and Blitzer questioned her. So Pelosi accused him of pushing GOP talking points. Yes, she accused Wolf Blitzer of that. Maybe we need to assess the mental fitness of Pelosi as Speaker.

Daily Caller @DailyCaller

Speaker Pelosi to CNN's Wolf Blitzer when he calls her out for refusing to make a deal on COVID-19 relief: "I don’t know why you’re always an apologist and many of your colleagues are apologists for the Republican position."

Then there was the Barrett hearings.

Sheldon Whitehouse is a dimwitted idiot. The man is obsessed with “dark money” even though Whitehouse is a prime beneficiary of it. He doesn’t seem to know or understand what it is and that he has benefited from him. But he is convinced Amy Coney Barrett is the devil and funded by dark money. Maybe the guy should lay off Harry Potter.

Whitehouse literally spent thirty minutes lecturing Barrett about the conspiracy network pushing her confirmation and let her say zero. You can read more about Whitehouse going down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole here.

The New York Times @nytimes

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who did not ask any questions of Judge Barrett, devoted his time to criticizing the influence of the Federalist Society and highlighting what he called a coordinated right-wing, dark-money effort to capture the federal courts. nyti.ms/378imcx

Watch Ted Cruz respond:

Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck

Video thread: After listening to Sheldon Whitehouse's latest drivel, @tedcruz takes a blowtorch to the left's aversion to free speech and both their hypocrisy and obsession with Citizen's United (1/)

Then there was Mazie Hirono asking Amy Coney Barrett if she has ever raped anyone. Somewhere in Hawaii, a village is missing an idiot.

Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck

Here’s resident Senate lunatic, Mazie Hirono asking Amy Coney Barrett "Have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors... or committed assault of a sexual nature?" Amy’s kids just watched their Mom get asked if she’s a rapist. Pure evil.

Even Kamala Harris failed to land any blows, but we did find the reporters who want to hump her leg the way some Trump fanboys do him. Really, this is embarrassing to read, but we must make note of it.

howardfineman @howardfineman

The tense, take-no-prisoners prosecutorial takedown of Judge #Barrett by @KamalaHarris was the riveting climax of the hearing today, and it looked like Barrett knew it.

Harris failed to land any blows on Barrett other than calling her a liar, for which she was rebuked by Senator Kennedy of Louisiana.

This is the best the Democrats could muster today. They were completely ineffective against a very sharp nominee. Barrett had sharp and emotional answers on George Floyd and balancing her personal and professional life and the attacks on her family. She was just excellent.

The Democrats just showed a lot of stupid people graduate every year from law school.