That's Trump's revenge.

Someone less competent and equally bizarrely loyal.

Not just troll dolls but MISFIT troll dolls.

Patel is particularly aggressive when he wants to cancel out Dem questioners by going into rapid-fire defensive shouting, drowning out the other person speaking. I did not see one person today able to defend against this tactic.

Pam Bondi does the same.

I'd like to see the Dems team up to be able to follow-up on points that get drowned out. He generally lets them get their initial point out before he goes off. They need to use that space to continue the points that are drowned out, then add new ones before he goes off again.

They also need to come prepared to factcheck the most egregious lies. Erich Schmidtt, (R-MO) went off on a egregious diatribe painting "leftists" as terrorists, doing a rapid-fire recitation of shootings, and asking Patel to identify if they were left or right. Dems needed to be prepared for that argument and find a way to shoot it down, perhaps with a poster of facts.

Their arguments, and style, are entirely predictable. We need to do a better job countering them.

and some who have gone the extra mile, have had their words stricken from the Congressional Record by the GOP Chair.

If/when we can take back either or both chambers, then we can go much further.

They can get officially blocked, but what really counts is what sticks in the listeners' minds, and gets on the news clips.

Dem points were skillfully drowned out and "erased' in the memories of those watching the hearing by Republican rhetorical teamwork. On an individual level, they've always relied on the gish gallop. Today, what I saw was a well-coordinated team effort to sequentially derail Dem talking points.

Dems need a team-based debate strategy to counter their sequential Gish Gallops and shout downs. Cory did a pretty good job of shouting over Kash, but in the end, I don't remember the points he was trying to make. And that's the problem. Their tactics make their messages "stickier" than ours, IMHO.

means that SOMETHING is being reported and noting that it got heated. I.e., Dems weren't "caving" to the gish gallop.

You do have an issue with Durbin as the Ranking Member (and he's not running again), and he is not always "fiery".

In general, the Committee members will follow the lead of the Ranking Member to avoid a "public division".

Didn't mean to come off as negative. I was just frustrated by their tactics and hoping there were better ways to counter them. I thought Adam did very well - maybe it's the prosecutor background.

compared to the wild House!

ETA - most of them on there are lawyers (Booker is a Yale Law grad).

the bucket at any second. Like the one rat from the Sopranos who left the world mid sentence.