Pierce: Sally Yates Dismantled Ted Cruz, and Michael Flynn Seems Like a Hooked Fish

[mcar]

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a54961/sally-yates-testifies-senate/

It is not often that you see one woman demolish a state's entire delegation to the United States Senate, but Sally Yates did the Republic a great service on Monday afternoon by demonstrating that Texas has sent to Washington a remarkable pair of deuces. First, she slapped John Cornyn silly as regards her refusal to enforce the president*'s original travel ban, the issue over which she'd been fired. He pronounced himself disappointed, and she handed him his head...

That was merely the appetizer. Yates, in her calm and judicious way, proceeded to make the entrée Tailgunner Ted Cruz, who started out in his customary cloud of oily arrogance and ended up being sautéed by the nice lady with the backbone of steel...

If you don't think that, in addition to unbounded joy among Democrats, there were at least a few indiscreet high-fives in other Republican senatorial offices, you have no idea how utterly friendless a lizard Ted Cruz really is. There are a number of things I learned from Monday's hearing and first among them is that I want to live out my life without ever being prosecuted by Sally Yates...

Other than that, and sweeping away all the underbrush thrown down by the Republican members of the committee—Cruz even found time to ask about Emailzzzzzz(!)—what we learned is that Michael Flynn is pretty much a hooked fish. Yates made it clear that her visit to the White House was not the "heads-up" that Sean Spicer tried to fob it off. She told them Flynn was compromised and it took them 18 days to fire him.

[furtheradu]

1. K & R..& thanks!

Nice summation, today makes me

[skylucy]

2. Ms. Yates is so much smarter (and more honorable) than GOP

hacks like Cruz, Grassley etc. She was so impressive!

[mcar]

3. She was!