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Johnson trying to go after Hillary Clinton through John Kerry. Kerry is handling him very well.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)BlueIndyBlue
(96 posts)beachmom
(15,239 posts)Marco Rubio was also nauseating. As was Corker.
Iggo
(47,486 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)foreign policy chops. He covered the world according to Marco, and then gave Kerry two minutes to respond. Total self-promoting assclown.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)A series of simplistic questions strung together to create the impression of broad knowledge.
I loved Kerry's response, big:
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) said at his secretary of state confirmation hearing Thursday that the Middle East is experiencing the "biggest upheaval in that part of the world since the Ottoman Empire."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/kerry-middle-east-experiencing-biggest-upheaval-in-region
That should leave Rubio the lesser scratching his head for a few days.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)on his questions.
Rubio said some nonsensical shit about Bush removing North Korea from the "axis of evil". None of what he said made a lick of sense and left Kerry flabbergasted.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)It was like a T-shirt cannon firing random unconnected foreign policy ideas. Kerry didn't know where to start.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)beachmom
(15,239 posts)who told him to come by for office hours, so he can explain it all to him. Meanwhile, he needs to get back to his lecture.
Anyone who thinks Rubio is a creditable presidential candidate clearly has not seem him in action in the Senate. He is completely unimpressive, playing in the minor leagues at best.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)His Base
beachmom
(15,239 posts)Kerry: Senator, in all fairness, I think we do know what happened. There was a briefing and tapes, which we all saw-those of us who went 2 it
Ha, ha, ha, ha! The dude couldn't even bother to get briefed about Benghazi with actual tapes, but now he is positively OUTRAGED!
butterfly77
(17,609 posts)today's hearing?
beachmom
(15,239 posts)Kerry taking down Johnson, who demands to know "what happened" in Benghazi. Kerry elicits: Johnson failed to attend a Benghazi briefing.
And we now have video from TPM:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/kerry-calls-out-gop-senator-out-for-missing
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)Was that the one McCain and the other grandstanders missed?
beachmom
(15,239 posts)RT @EricKleefeld: BREAKING: Ron Johnson now says Kerry planned to get unemotional at the hearing.
samsingh
(17,571 posts)a kennedy
(29,460 posts)Russ Feingold SHOULD still be in the Senate.
old guy
(3,281 posts)They put this idiot in office and odds are they will re-elect him.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)ellisonz
(27,709 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)ellisonz
(27,709 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)black man than he was about Bush/KKKarl Rove's racist stunt against him in the 2000 SC primary. The man is a despicable human being. He was once a man of honor in how he served his country. And now I can't stand to look at him.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)Listen asshole, your Rethug colleagues CUT the fucking budget for Security.
Then, this asshole has a nerve to decry the phenomenon of rape in some ME countries. And yet this is the same guy who wouldn't protect the right of women to have an abortion should they become pregnant as a result of that rape.
What a despicable man John McCain has become.
beachmom
(15,239 posts)All hot air, these Republican Senators.
I have to say the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is no longer a premier committee. Think about when Biden, Lugar, Kerry, Obama, and Feingold were all in there together. Now look at it.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)committee are lightweight compared to the great minds of Kerry, Lugar, Feingold, Biden, Bob Graham and Hillary.
Bob Menendez is now the chair? Really? I like Bob a lot, but he doesn't strike me as a very influential chairman, not like what we've had before.
beachmom
(15,239 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)the gop house refused to allow the State Deparment from shifting funds from Iraq to elsewhere.
The gop clamps off the fire hose and wonders why those actually working can't put the fire out.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)beachmom
(15,239 posts)Kerry mansplaining the way the world works to Paul Rand.
Plus he said we "funded bin Laden" for which there is zero evidence to support the notion.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)Smack!