I watched Cruz’s “Cross” of the NAACP guy, and it was quite impressive. The witness did not seem to fight back very much.
But the a**hole non-lawyer, Al Franken, poked some serious holes in Cruz’s arguments. For example, Cruz said a certain witness’ testimony (against Sessions) was retracted, and Franken went right to the record and pointed out that only a small portion was retracted, and that had been a portion benefiting Sessions.
I wanted so badly for Cruz to demolish this clown, but it just didn’t happen. He seems to do better on the prepared portions of his remarks, like the litany against the NAACP guy about their biased scorecard . . . but, when a strong lawyer opposes him (EVEN IF THEY’RE DEAD WRONG) like the ACLU guy, then he did not appear to me to have the desired follow-through.
Again, I was pulling for Cruz every step of the way . . . but was not highly impressed by the overall performance, even when I agreed strongly with his positions (like backing Jeff Sessions).
Thank you for your assessment.
I didn’t see the whole thing, so I’m not going to chime in on what took place.
That was an interesting observation.
It’s amazing to me that Franken could ever have been elected to the Senate. Good grief.
I have read of some of Tead’s actions, and I heard a clip on Rush. Frankly it was very good. It did call the Democrats out. Under normal circumstances, I’d really be profusely appreciative.
These are not normal circumstances after last fall.
Thanks for your comments.
But he is defending Sessions. His first statement (yesterday) was very good.