Posted on 12/14/2015 12:54:34 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
I've received many letters like this about my appearance last week in the United States Senate:
Dear Mr. Steyn:
I've been following the reports on your appearance to give Senate testimony, and the troubles you and other witnesses encountered there. I don't want to pretend that I'm any kind of expert in such matters, but it was my impression going in that the hearings were Senator Cruz's idea, and that you were his invitee. If so, how were the proceedings commandeered by Sen. Markey in the manner that your posts suggest?
Sincerely,
Thomas Evans
Well, Markey didn't "commandeer" the proceedings. He was just blowharding off, and me and Judith Curry decided to blowhard right back at him, to the point where the big wimp cleared out and chose not to return for the second round of questions.
It might be truer to say that the Democrats as a whole commandeered the proceedings. But even that would not be strictly correct. What happened is that Senate Republicans chose to permit the Dems to commandeer them.
How did that happen? Ted Cruz's Science committee is a sub-committee of the Senate Commerce committee. The sub-committee has six Republican members, five Democrats. The senior party representatives on the overall Commerce committee - John Thune (Republican) and Bill Nelson (Democrat) - are ex officio members of the sub-committee and are also permitted to attend. So there should have been seven Republicans and six Democrats in the room that afternoon.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Seems more like Steyn bragging about his "importance".
But you take it however it makes you most comfortable.
No one says it quite like the extremely talented Mark Steyn.
And Steyn's conclusion and analogy to the courage of Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds and his men was truly masterful.
Steyn ping ...
I’d feel pretty important, not in a way I’d care for, if not only the Canadian government had hounded me for my personal opinion, but the US Congress also considered my personal opinion important enough to hold hearings on them, and threatening enough to have senators talking about making people who shared my opinion, political prisoners.
Sorry, I’m not kissing his butt no matter how much trouble he’s gotten into.
You go ahead though and report back on the taste.
Steyn has a way with words, and a willingness to say things others won’t.
Including why there was only one Republican at the hearing.
What?
I didn’t stutter.
That was really uncalled-for, I didn’t attack you or your opinion, I merely stated mine.
This is why I pray every night that Cruz becomes POTUS. He will have the bully pulpit to expose the bastards in the GOP. His Justice Department can investigate the rampant corruption in both parties! This is why all of them are terrified and hate him so.
GO CRUZ!!!
Great article, thanks for posting it.
Perhaps so. I apologize.
Interesting you poke at Steyn's bragging your own tagline right next to it...
should say ‘right next to your own tagline’...
“No one says it quite like the extremely talented Mark Steyn. “
It’s just too bad this stuff doesn’t reach our idiotic voters in a manner that would allow them to “properly process” the information. What Steyn is saying is that mostly what we have in Washinton today is a big steaming pile of $hit for Congressmen and Senators. We would, indeed be better-served if we replaced every last one of them all at one time.
Reading (or listening to) Steyn raises your IQ several points
Why don’t you shut up when you have nothing intelligent to say?
Which is almost always
I don't know if you're missing punctuation or entire words.
Perhaps both, or maybe you have a disability. Don't drive.
No worries, it’s that time of year again :)
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