Well for goodness sake!!! David Corn has correctly described the hearing! I'm simply astounded.
The only quibble I have is how he relayed the Cantwell-Ashcroft exchange. When Cantwell got off her punchline, that not all in America was laughing, Ashcroft was certainly not laughing. He was scowling at the implication of the cartoon, that he was some kind of evil, government Big Brother.
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When Cantwell got off her punchline, that not all in America was laughing, Ashcroft was certainly not laughing. He was scowling at the implication of the cartoon, that he was some kind of evil, government Big Brother."
I noticed that also.
Cantwell certainly wished to appear as the smart-ax by attempting a ridiculing remark to the AG, but she didn't possess the facilities to demonstrate it. She didn't remotely understand Ashcroft's implication - it whizzed right over her head, proving Ashcroft's genius....
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The author missed the most important reason why Maria Cantwell asked her question. This is "Maria the gazillionaire who refused to ask for one dime, nay,
one penny, from campaign donors, who made her gazillion dollars as an Internet entrepreneur, and who had to go into debt to get elected, spending her gazillions, then had to let hillary hostess a fundraiser for her after she was sworn into office," Cantwell. THAT is why good old jolly (not) Maria asked the Attorney General her Internet question.
I saw the snippet of her snotty reply to Mr. Ashcroft on local Seattle TV. What a brat.